Mary Mulvihill on Art

Hello! I am Mary Mulvihill. I am an artist and teach art. I live in Temecula, California. Art is a part of my day, everyday. I look, I see. I paint, I write. Art gives meaning to what I experience. This blog is about my thoughts on the process of painting. I also post information useful to my students.

Monday, April 4, 2016

What Do I Hope for in a Plein Air Sketch?

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Someone asked me yesterday while I was painting plein air at the Temecula Rose Garden, what do you hope to come away with from a plein air ...

April Oil Painting Class

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Studio Oil Painting Wednesdays, April 6, 13, 20 and 27; 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. $140 Class is for all levels. Enrollme...

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Class Notes for 3/9/2016 - Studio Oil Painting

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Class Notes for 3/9: We will be in class at our Fallbrook location but dipping our toes into plein air. I will have several small (two...

My Palette

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I have used the same palette for most of my painting years. Sergei Bongart used a double primary palette - a warm and cool of each color, w...

Friday, January 2, 2015

Santa Rosa Plateau, New Year's Day

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The Plateau on January 2, 2015. It is closed for the next four or five days because of dangerous paths and damaged trees. As you can see fr...

Monday, December 22, 2014

Painting from Photographs

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One thing that you hear from every good landscape painter is that you have to paint on location because photographs never contain the c...

Friday, July 4, 2014

Those Other Pigments

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Burnt Umber Burnt Sienna Raw Sienna Yellow Ochre Cadmium Yellow Lemon (or Permanent Yellow Light) Cadmium Yellow Medium (or Permanent Y...

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About Me

Mary Mulvihill: I am a representational artist ... and like every good painter that I admire, I paint light. I seek the color of that light, in the moment, to capture the mood. That, and good design.

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