AMERICAN ARTIST October 1984 Joe Sweeney and similar items

American Artist Artist magazine of largest circulation. Artist profiles/interviews include multiple photos and reproductions over multiple pages, PLUS: Illustrations, technical features, columns, vintage ads and MORE --Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below! Issue Date: OCTOBER 1984; VOLUME 48, ISSUE 507 IN THIS ISSUE:- This description copyright Edward D Peyton. Any un-authorized use of this description is strictly prohibited. COVER: SPECIAL SECTION: Tools of the Trade Show. FRONT COVER: East River View (detail), by Joe Sweeney, 1983, pastel, 18 x 20. Courtesy Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photo by Joseph Painter. FEATURES: A CONVERSATION WITH CONSTANCE FLAVELL PRATT by Charles Movalli. In this candid interview, this successful Massachusetts portraitist recalls the early years of her career when she executed dozens of pastel portraits in a matter of days, and she relates how that experience helped her develop her skills. THE WATERCOLOR PAGE: DAVID NEWTON. This New York City artist finds watercolor an ideal medium with which to paint the city, owing to its simplicity and light weight. Here he offers some tips for other on-location city painters. COVER ARTIST: JOE SWEENEY by William P. Scott. The Schuylkill River -- a popular subject for generations of Pennsylvania artists -- provides much of the source material for Sweeney's oils and pastels. Here the artist discusses the techniques he employs in creating his vistas of boathouses along the river. CAREN CANIER: RECREATING THE FAMILIAR by Jeanne Mackin. This young New York painter's "landscapes and still lifes are rich with the mundane and familiar; the song they sing is a gentle one, filled with images of home and family and friends," writes the author. T. J. DIXON by Peter Eichner-Dixon. Working with terra-cotta clay which she prepares according to her own formula, this Colorado artist shapes dramatic life-sized figurative sculptures with simple tools. The artist demonstrates her procedures for working from live models and how she sculpts and fires the clay. USING PHOTOGRAPHS IN PAINTING PORTRAITS by Patricia Hill Burnett. This portraitist from Michigan offers practical advice for taking and using photographs when painting portraits. Some of the topics covered: lighting, posing, and the psychology of portrait photography. PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR ARTWORK by Stanley Marcus. Would you like to know how to produce good slides of your paintings to send to art competitions and publications? If so, turn to this article for some basic tips on choosing a camera, film, and lighting. SPECIAL SECTION: TOOLS of the Trade Show suppliment. Includes Official program guide. DEPARTMENTS: FOOTNOTES. LETTERS. CASUAL COMMENTARY. PSYCHOLOGY OF ART by Betty Kronsky. PROFESSIONAL PAGE by lana Jevnikar. TECHNICAL PAGE by Prof. Clifford T. Chieffo. ART BOOKS. ART MART. EXHIBITS. COMING IN NOVEMBER. BULLETIN BOARD. INDEX TO ADVERTISING. PEOPLE, PLACES, EVENTS. This description copyright Edward D Peyton. Any un-authorized use of this description is strictly prohibited. Magazine is COMPLETE and in VERY GOOD +++ condition. (See photo)