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Autumn in Sporting Art
There’s nothing quite like Nature in Autumn, and all the sporting adventures and artistic endeavors that She inspires. We’ve already rounded up some of our favorite autumn scenes from Sporting Art Master Arthur Shilstone in this post, but there is a plethora more to enjoy from our many wonderful artists. We’ve curated a small collection…
Read MoreA Sense of Place | A Place to be Sensed: Vol. 3 – Autumn Gold
Arthur Shilstone’s prolific career as a Master of Sporting Art produced a vast and diverse inventory of watercolor sporting scenes. Any Sporting Art enthusiast can find their sense of place within his body of work. With such a large inventory, however, we recognize the potential challenge of pinpointing that one exact scene (or 2, or…
Read MoreA Sense of Place | A Place to be Sensed: Vol. 2 – Waving Summer Goodbye
Arthur Shilstone’s prolific career as a Master of Sporting Art produced a vast and diverse inventory of watercolor sporting scenes. Any Sporting Art enthusiast can find their sense of place within his body of work. With such a large inventory, however, we recognize the potential challenge of pinpointing that one exact scene (or 2, or…
Read MoreA Sense of Place | A Place to be Sensed : Vol. 1 – Unpainted Spaces
Arthur Shilstone’s prolific career as a Master of Sporting Art produced a vast and diverse inventory of watercolor sporting scenes. Any Sporting Art enthusiast can find their sense of place within his body of work. With such a huge inventory, however, we recognize the potential challenge of pinpointing that one exact scene (or 2, or…
Read MoreWelcoming George Van Hook to Sportsman’s Palette
Sportsman’s Palette’s relationship with New York artist George Van Hook has its roots in our shared connection to the American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester, VT. Exactly a year ago, we struck up a conversation with the artist at a museum event, and several months later, decided to pursue a professional relationship with the…
Read MoreTuesday Roundup – Some of Arthur Shilstone’s Impressions in Sporting Art
Whether you’ve been familiar with Arthur Shilstone’s work for a long time, or are new to Sporting Art and wanting to learn more about the genre’s master, there’s nothing quite like walking down memory lane to reminisce & learn. We’ve rounded up 11 articles & links from across the internet from the past decade that…
Read MoreRemembering Arthur Shilstone – 1922-2020
We at Sportsman’s Palette ask you to share with us in celebrating the life of a man who made so many great contributions to our world through his kind heart, his warm way with people, and his magnificent talent as a painter, from which he created such wonderful imagery for more than 90 years. He…
Read MoreSportsman’s Palette Interviews Harley Bartlett
Following our interview with Sebastián Letelier, we got caught up with another great sporting artist, this time a little closer to our neck of the woods – Harley Bartlett. SP: You have an extremely diverse body of work! How do you go from painting something small, say a small landscape or sporting scene on canvas,…
Read MoreSportsman’s Palette Interviews Sebastián Letelier
Over the past few months, we’ve been catching up with a handful of our artists as the majority of us have been spending our days at home. We caught up with Sebastián Letelier, and were inspired to ask him a few of these questions after watching Brickhouse Media’s beautiful film on the angler and painter.…
Read MoreStage 07 – Tidying Up
This is it – the final stage of the Masterpiece; the culmination of nearly a year’s worth of patience, dedication, and precision. Cardnell: As well as numerous small adjustments to the picture, four significant alterations were applied to enhance. These are listed below, in tandem with the annotated image: To scale correctly, the thin-water ‘lattice’…
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