The Luminous Egg Tempera Paintings of American Contemporary Artist Daniel Ambrose
Studio Moving / Appreciation Sale
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I’ve set the egg tempera painting of the bird from my previous post aside to rest for a bit as I need to work on paintings for an upcoming show. Meanwhile, I’ve started a large new seascape in oil and so far it’s coming along nicely. I’d post a picture of it but I’m known [...]
This is a detail of a larger painting I am currently working on. It’s been a struggle. I used to paint birds years ago, and then turned away from them. I’m not sure why, maybe because I became more interested in exploring beyond the subject of the painting. I had more I wanted to say [...]
To study the colors of light, I often paint the same subject at the same time of day. I painted the the following plein air paintings several years ago from behind my studio on the Tomoka river. And as much as I’ve enjoyed having them around, I think they have finally served their purpose and it’s [...]
My fine art gallery currently features traditional landscape paintings of my native Florida, and the mountain regions around my summer studio in western North Carolina.
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Daniel Ambrose’s Moon Dreams recalls the American Luminist painters of the mid 19th century, who attempted to capture dramatic or mysterious lighting effects for awe-inspiring impact.— James J. Murphy