08 Wednesday May 2013
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Charlotte Joan Sternberg, Charlotte Sternberg, Egg Tempera, Favorite Places, gallery, Meriden, New Britain Museum, New England, New York, Painting, Realism, retro, seasons, Vintage, Yale
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rVEmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GwAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4022%2C494056
This March 5, 1950 newspaper has a nice article about Charlotte…and here is the Collier’s Magazine cover that they are talking about:
http://www.unz.org/Pub/Colliers-1950jun24-x00001?View=PDF
08 Wednesday May 2013
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Charlotte Joan Sternberg, Charlotte Sternberg, illustrations, Realism, sketches, spring, spring flowers
I love to see sketches by artists…here, Charlotte’s expressive, varied lines suggest the upward growth and vitality of the spring flowers.
04 Saturday May 2013
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Charlotte Joan Sternberg, Charlotte Sternberg, Connecticut, Egg Tempera, Favorite Places, Realism, seasons, spring
Here I am, with wildflowers–which I still love dearly.
23 Tuesday Apr 2013
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Charlotte Joan Sternberg, Egg Tempera, garden, garden design, gouache, opaque watercolor, Realism, seasons
Gouache, or opaque watercolor, is very much like egg tempera in its opacity and creamy, generally high-key colors. I blend it by stroking the boundaries of each color gently with a moist brush. This is the method that Chuck Sovek taught us at Paier. Tempera, on the other hand, requires the artist to mix many different values (light and dark tones of different colors), and layer strokes of these values to look as though the paint blends. 
This painting, “George’s Pond,” is done in gouache, and is based on a garden design by my friend, G. Anthony Jones.
In the following piece, “Holiday Visitors,” my mother used gouache and watercolor in the background,on illustration board. Details are in egg tempera.
03 Wednesday Apr 2013
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02 Tuesday Apr 2013
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antique, cape cod, Charlotte Joan Sternberg, Egg Tempera, Favorite Places, Historic, New England, Realism, retro, Vintage
A lovely old house and coordinating workmen, seen on Cape Cod. Pretty hydrangeas, too!
26 Tuesday Mar 2013
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This is a 1988 snapshot of the Noah Bacon house in Kensington, mentioned in earlier posts, that inspired Timberlost Tea Party and Favorite Places. You can just about see the lilacs blooming in front. There is an earlier painting also featuring this house at http://riversidefineart.com.
18 Monday Mar 2013
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allegory, American, Charlotte Joan Sternberg, Charlotte Sternberg, Connecticut, Egg Tempera, Favorite Places, illustration, Meriden, Realism, retro, Vintage
Based on a handsome old barn in Meriden. Charlotte just loved to dance! Note the dogs, who can’t be left out.
06 Wednesday Mar 2013
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Inspired by Lewis Avenue in Meriden.
26 Tuesday Feb 2013
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Picnic by the Bridge, which is almost totally invented. Later in her life, Charlotte could do this remarkably well!
