DAVID HARDY

"“There is something one notices right away about my studio painting procedure.  I place my painting on my easel near my subject, choosing to view it from a spot some distance away.  Then I proceed to walk to my easel to apply each stroke of paint, back and forth.  Friends have jokingly suggested I should measure the total distance walked when completing each picture and charge by the mile!

All this walking while painting is not an idea I originated.  It was used by many of the Master artists of the past, among them Caravaggio, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Diego de Velasquez, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and John Singer Sargent.  It helps me to develop a painting as a single, vibrant unit.

I use a gradual building up of paint, a process called Layered Painting.  Areas in the light are built up with layers of opaque oil thinned with glaze medium until it becomes translucent.  Shadows are layered on in thin, overlapping transparent glazes.  Each layer must dry before applying another, requiring patience and time.

I go to all this trouble because it enables me to create marvelous visual effects with a subtlety not possible in any other way.  It's like being given a special wand and becoming a magician.”

link to D. Hardy's work

MARSHALL HASBROUCK

For college near his hometown in central Pennsylvania, Marshall chose biological science rather than art, which held equal interest. After graduation, he set out to know more of the world, working as a farmhand in Montana, land surveying in Alaska, and as deckhand on Mediterranean boats before landing his first illustration job.

While in Panama, he was hired to do pen-and-ink illustrations of tropical trees by Dr. Egbert Leigh, a Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute scientist. That was the tweak that pointed Marshall back toward art. After completing a geography master's degree, he began art training in earnest.
From exacting pen-and-ink illustration, he moved to watercolors, then oils. In Oregon, he studied wildlife illustration with Irene Brady. In Oakland, California, he studied figure drawing with Douglas Restivo, then classical realism with David Hardy. After competitive exhibitions, winning awards such as Art of California magazine Art Stars of California Award, he received the Nancy B. Galantiere Scholarship to study at the Art Students League in New York City.

Following his return from New York, Mr. Hasbrouck concentrated on painting landscapes, with occasional botanicals, and wildlife, reaching toward the feeling of wonder in nature. For a time he did mostly plein air painting, but now he often works in the studio, using compositional sketches and reference photos taken on his many journeys into nature, such as his painting trips to Costa Rica.
At the Atelier School of Classical Realism, Marshall brings his years of field and studio experience to the teaching of landscape painting..

A sampling of Marshall’s work