Demo March 5, 2018

 My 9 x 12 oil demo from class this morning.  The start is here...very general.  Just some value and color fields.  Then I get into more details but keeping in mind where I want the most attention to go and where I can lose detail

Fine Art Connoisseur

Wow.  Fine Art Connoisseur chose my painting, "Charleston Interior" to be included in this month's issue article "Looking Inside".  I am in awe of the other artists they chose and really honored to be included with them!

Pastel workshop NYC

I will be teaching a pastel workshop in NYC.  If interested, contact the Pastel Society of America
psaoffice@pastelsocietyofamerica.org

Oil Painters of America

I am amazed, proud and honored to have "Getting into Trees" 18 x 24 oil, accepted into the 2018 Oil Painters of America's National Juried Show.  This is the hardest show to get into and one that has eluded me often.  So excited!

Peacham Light

Some of you may recognize the opening and tree...I have done a different version in the past.  In this one, I wanted to expand to have more of the dark trees on either side and simplify some of the color   18 x 24 oil on canvas

Simplifying the complicated

 My demo from class this morning.  I am showing some of the lead ups to the final too.  I approached this thinking of how to take a complicated subject matter and make it simple.
First...squinting I looked at the general design of the values and let that guide me in the big picture.  Then I roughed in the front figures to know they would fit.  Only then did I get into some more details.  It is not unlike the flowers from the last post...start with the simplest pattern of light and dark and then allow details to emerge.

Bouquet demo

One of my students brought in flowers for me to demo in oil class.   I started by squinting and seeing the big shadows shapes and the overall contour.  Then I roughed in the color fields.  Only after that did any specific flours emerge and only at the end did the few light highlights emerge.