Posted in art class, daily painter, Paint Party, Still Life, tagged oranges, oranges with blue pot, still life on February 15, 2019| Leave a Comment »
We will be painting this still life with oranges at a Paint Party on Friday, March 1st at 6 pm. This one was done with a grey scale underpainting. We won’t necessarily work it this way at the paint party but it’s a good exercise that helps with darks and lights in painting. You can see the process above. Click here to register and for more info.
Posted in Art Camp, daily painter, Still Life, tagged Orange and Tomato, Still Life with Lemon on August 3, 2018| Leave a Comment »
We started our last session of Art Camp for the summer yesterday and it had us painting Paula Modersohn-Becker’s “Still Life with Lemon, Orange, and Tomato” from 1903. Terrific!
Posted in Art Camp, Still Life, tagged Apple and Pear, Cezanne on June 16, 2017| Leave a Comment »
We started Art Camp this year with 5-7 year olds painting the “Still Life with Apple and a Pear” by Paul Cezanne from 1888-90. They did a fine job. These kids are learning about different styles of art and artists as well as learning about color mixing. Great! Can’t wait to see their Monet today…
Posted in art class, Still Life, tagged orange, oranges on May 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The kids painted these FABULOUS oranges in class yesterday. Great work!
Posted in daily painter, Furniture, Landscape, Still Life, tagged grapes, pear, sailboat, Tulips on April 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »
I paint many demonstration paintings as I teach and most of the time I don’t go back and finish them up because I don’t usually have time before I am on to something else. But occasionally I will go in and tighten up one or two so that they are a little more complete. Here are a few that I did add a little more to recently. You can see the original posts for these paintings here: Still Life, Sailboat Landscape, and Tulips.
Posted in art class, Still Life, tagged fruit, grapes, pear, still life, VIA on April 8, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The Virginia International Academy students painted this little still life this week. We have been working on a variety of subjects and styles since they started painting at The Studio. They are doing beautiful work!
Posted in daily painter, Paint Party, Still Life, tagged Famous Painters, oranges, Piet Mondrian, plate, still life on March 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »
I often get asked why I don’t post my paintings along with the paintings that the people at Paint Parties do while at The Studio. The answer is that I don’t often finish mine! I am usually walking around helping others put the finishing touches on their work to be sure they are satisfied with them before we wrap up the party. From time to time I get back to my canvas to finish up. I did in the case of the Famous Painter Party this week because I really like the Piet Mondrian still life that we chose to do. Here is how my painting turned out. I love the complementary blue and orange colors.
