The Art League of Nassau County welcomed professional artist Paul Bachem to the Clinton G. Martin Recreation Center in New Hyde Park on Friday, April 24 to demonstrate a landscape painting in oils at its meeting.
Bachem worked with a unique palette developed by contemporary impressionist David Lussier with high key colors from five basic tubes of Rembrandt oil paint.
The audience watched as he set down a red tone on board and then thickly brushed in various luscious green shades on top to create a restful scene. When done, he had created a painting of a field of flowers surrounded by bushes and a tree under a light sky that was filled with a warm sunny effect.
In plein air (outdoor) painting “you only have a few hours to work, so get the impression down without grass blades,” Bachem said referring to working with large masses of color, rather than small details.
“I first saw his work at the Village Artist in Huntington and now I’m very pleased to have my own Paul Bachem painting,” Suzie Alvey remarked after winning the piece.
Bachem studied at the Stevenson Academy of Traditional Painting with Alma Gallanos Stevenson and Harold Ransom Stevenson, who was a student of Norman Rockwell.
After a career as a freelance illustrator, he now devotes his time to working from nature with plein air landscapes which are in private collections.
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