Join Martin Campos, Tracy Everly and Gage Opdenbrouw for this one-of-a-kind experience! This class brings three award-winning artists together to share their plein air painting approaches, motivations and techniques.
For more information, visit my teaching page or the Winslow Art Center website. … Read more ...
It’s never simple to keep things simple- especially when you are talking about painting complex forms. Translating your ideas into paint and getting them down on canvas simply requires mastery of skills and materials. It also requires focus and good painting habits.
In this weekly class, we will discuss limits and how they offer a way to organize your paintings and thought process. The focus will be on direct painting and specific methods to help you short-circuit the overthinking brain. For more information or to register, please visit the Penn Studio School website. … Read more ...
I’m happy to share that my first video course, Layered Moments: Painting the Still Life, is available! This was a labor of love and I did my best to share some of the ways in which I work to create a painting. Filmed in my own studio, this offers a glimpse into my process as I work from life to paint two different floral arrangements. When the course launches in June, I’ll be offering comments and feedback in a private Facebook group. I hope some of you will join me.
For more information, please visit the Kara Bullock Art School… Read more ...
I’m happy to share that “Bright” received an Award of Distinction in The American Impressionist Society Associate Member Online Juried Exhibit. I’m pleased to be included among the 320 wonderful paintings included in this show. I hope you’ll check them out in the online catalog, which you can see here: https://online.flippingbook.com/view/566614582/. … Read more ...
Stories are a staple of life; they let us see ourselves. They unfold over time, from the briefest moment to the fullness of a lifetime.
– David Wiesner
Woodmere’s annual juried exhibition, Seeing the Story, highlights contemporary work in a wide variety of media by artists living within fifty miles of the museum. This year’s juror, David Wiesner, has selected works of visual, narrative art.
The exhibition will be on view June 5, 2021 through August 29, 2021. For more information, please … Read more ...
In the midst of the pandemic we are all experiencing together, I notice that I am having a lot of negative thoughts about art making. Thoughts like, “What you’re doing is not important,” or “You’re not saving lives here, ” or perhaps the most negative of all- “No one cares about art at a time like this, so stop sharing.” Does any of this sound familiar? I hope most of you hold more positive thoughts, but if not, know that you are not alone.
So I’ve been waiting. Waiting for these thoughts to turn positive or to go away before … Read more ...
I am pleased to share that “Pink geranium,” 8×10″, was given the Award in Memory of Gus, Grace and Ty in the Phillips’ Mill 90th Annual Art Exhibition in New Hope, PA. Open daily 1-5 p.m. Sept. 21 – Oct. 27. I will be the visiting artist at Phillips’ Mill on Saturday, Sept. 21, 1 – 3 p.m.
The Phillips’ Mill juried art exhibition, long-recognized as the most prestigious art show in the Delaware Valley, holds its exhibit each year in the fall. First held in 1929, the show attracts the best work of hundreds of artists living within a … Read more ...
In my last blog post, I focused on the importance of figuring out what we do well as painters. Another important part of the equation, it seems to me, is what do you love? Painting is about what you love to look at and what kind of art you want to create. As much as I believe that some of it is decided for us, I believe that intent also plays a big part.
A favorite teacher of mine says that you need to paint the painting … Read more ...
A painter I know asked me one simple question a few months ago that I couldn’t adequately answer. He asked me if I knew what I did well.
It’s a great question and one that I’m still trying to answer for myself. Because I had come to work in a way that was largely intuitive, I couldn’t necessarily break down the parts, so to speak. I knew … Read more ...
Yesterday someone asked me why I paint the same things over and over; why I repeat motifs like flowers, vases, my neighbors’ house, and views of my backyard. The short answer is – I repeat motifs because I am not painting things. I aim to focus on the specific aspects of something that make it interesting to me.
I am communicating light and silence and movement and joy and color. A motif is just the vehicle for how to get there. Painting … Read more ...