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| “Fall Snow” © Alice Laputka |
Name: Alice Laputka, PSA
Bio: Pennsylvania artist Alice Laputka is a graduate of the Philadelphia
College of Art (now the University of the Arts) with a BFA in advertising. Her
background includes print design, television graphics, animated film work and
teaching. She has studied with Bill Herring (who helped get her gallery
representation), Miles Batt and Katherine Chang Liu. She has had over a dozen
solo exhibitions and has exhibited in over two hundred regional, national and
international juried shows. Her
paintings are in numerous corporate and private collections throughout the
United States.
Her paintings have
been featured in Pastel Artist International Magazine, International
Artist Magazine and The Artist’s Magazine as well as Rockport
Publishers The Best of Acrylic Painting. A feature article Windows of
Colour in the October 2012 issue of the Pastel Journal is an excellent
exposition of her approach and method.
Laputka has done
editing and writing for the Pastel Society of America where she holds signature
member status. She has been inducted into the Master Circle of the
International Association of Pastel Societies and is a signature member of the
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Knickerbocker Artists, the Pennsylvania
Watercolor Society, and the Philadelphia Water Color Society. She is a
professional artist member of the Main Line Art Center and an exhibiting member
of Philadelphia Tri-State Artist Equity.
Medium: Pastel; oil;watercolour. Laputka often creates her own support from Lenox or
Stonehenge printmaking paper which she coats with two layers of equal parts
gesso or acrylic paint, ground pumice and distilled water. With a paper surface
she also covers the back with gesso to prevent the paper from curling. She also
uses Strathmore illustration board, watercolour paper, or hardboard.
Subjects: Landscape
Style: Colourist.
Laputka’s work reminds me of the late Elsie Dinsmore Popkin, but more abstract
in approach.
Navigation: While
the website is easy to work around, the design elements are lacking, especially
on the pages where thumbnails seem lost as they are widely dispersed on the
page. The enlarged images open on a page where no links whatsoever are
provided, not forward, not back. Of the three links to artists’ sites, one is
incorrect; and Jan Crooker, when found, is not a pastellist, as the link
suggests.
Gallery:
Landscapes; Barns and buildings; Plein air; Abstract; Oils
Image View: Each
thumbnail may be enlarged; information
on each image is provided. Enlargements open on a new page, with no links to
anywhere – either use the back button, or open the enlargement with a right
click- open link in new tab/window. Download is possible but all images have a
large watermark.I have chosen to feature Fall Snow (671 x 518, 349 KB) as the watermark is not too obtrusive in the snowy ground.
Blog/Demo: No
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