Carl Plansky and friends
A few weeks ago I went to the Carl Plansky and friends show at the golden paints factory. The show room was filled with oil paintings by Carl Plansky but also consisted of many other artists’ works. My favorite one was called Testing tree by Jake Berthot. It was a very dark painting within a forest landscape. The values in the different colors were all darks, and there were no light areas, yet the painting still had dept. The viewer has to look closely to see the tree trunks in the background, but immediately noticed the big tree in the foreground. He spent a lot of time layering the darks and created a transparency of the dark night air. His painting is my favorite because it is the most visually appearing, which is weird because usually I like bright colors.
One interesting thing about the artist Carl Plansky is that he makes his own oil paints. He uses a variety of bright and “unreal” colors in his mind palette to paint his still-life works as well as his self portrait with a twist of creativity. His long thick brushstrokes and sense of space are always chaotic and you can see the muscle he puts into his pieces. His works have a more opaque feeling to them than other oil works ive seen, but they still have the transparency that happens when oil paints are mixed with mineral spirits. There is depth and layering but it is done in a way that looks random and easy. Looking at his work makes you want to paint, it also makes you think “hey I can do this… it’s just random lines of paint” but in reality his work is how it is because he has spent years of working with oil paints. He spends time on each individual painting works hard to keep the colors separate. It is very easy to make a muddy painting from oil paints if you’re trying to do it in a short period of time, but his work shows the slow development of space and color he made over time, which is a main point when working with oil paints (taking your time with layering to build transparency and depth).
In general this show was really cool and I had a good time at the gallery!
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