Hello Artists.

Winter session will be a 8-weeks starting January 8th going until  February 26th. The class is Fridays from 9:00am to noon, at Talent Studios.

This session we will focus on the human form.  We will be painting from your own references and from life models.  The models will be coming into class intermediately through out the session so be ready for short gestured poses with a sketch book.  This 8-week session will be $290 plus a $15 modeling fee.

The next 8-week session will start March 5th and go to April 23rd.  Please email me to pre-register.

This Friday, October 30th was the start of the new Friday art class fall session. The session will be 7-weeks broken up into 2 sections. The first three weeks will focus on working from a portrait reference. The references will be of a solitary person with a focus on the face.
For the second section of the class we will be doing a portrait from a live model.

Sessions fill up quickly, and this terms has lots of new talent along with plenty of veteran painters. Can’t wait to see how everyone’s projects progress. We will keep you posted.

Workshop at Trium Winery

The beauty of the vineyards and hillsides was only briefly overshadowed by the wailing and gnashing of teeth on the first day of our workshop.  Wispy clouds floated by overhead, and the rolling hills below played tricks on our eyes disappearing into the purple shadows only to reappear moments later. Even the most level headed first day painter was vexed.  Lunch arrived, and the sandwiches and lemonade seemed to help.  As some of the concepts of value and depth started to take hold, morale improved.  By the second day, the group had its painting legs. Color and perspective abounded.  The scorching sun was merciless but my students were brave and sure.  Thin to thick, dark to light.  Contrasting values and forms diminishing into the distance.  There was some beautiful painting accomplished.  We’ll have to do it again.