BARB DOES A CEZANNE

Barb have done a Cezanne, nice colors, cheers Barb

JILL FIRST PAINTING

Jill does her first painting also doin a copy of the artist Terry Miura

MARY'S SECOND PAINTING

Mary finish her scouters, a copy from the Artist Terry Miura, good work Mary

JANET DOES HER FIRST OIL PAINTING

Janet just finish her first oil painting in this case she copy our dear friend artist Terry Miura

MARGARET FIRST PAINTING

Margaret has finish her first painting , a copy of Van Gogh , a great job,Margaret, congratulations

STUDENT EXHIBITION

Everybody is welcome to our show

MARY AND E. HOOPER

Mary does her firs painting copying the light house from Edward Hooper. she did a great job. Congratulation Mary

BILL DOES HIS FIGURE PAINTING

Bill did his figure painting, two characters with a boat , the original artist of this painting is unknown. Yes Bill did a very nice job. Cheers Bill

NANCY DOES HER FIRST PAINTING

We thanks again Terry Miura for his inspiration, here Nancy enter in the art world by copying a Terry's Miura painting. Nancy did a good job. Congratulation Nancy

EVA AND A BEAUTIFUL TERRY'S MIURA PAINTNG

We thanks Terry Miura again for his inspiration, and here Eva did this beautiful landscape with an orange sky. a very elegant painting

DENNIS DOES HIS FIGURE PAINTING

Dennis finish his figure painting from an unknown artist, and he did a fabulous job with it, good for you Dennis

EVELIN AND THE BICYCLE PAINTING

First of all we want to thanks the artist Terry Miura for given us permission to learn by copying his paintings. Here Evelyn did a fabulous job with this painting of the bicycle from the artist Terry Miura

BARB PAINTS HER FIRST FIGURE

Barb did a beautiful work on a copy of Jacob Collins, "the thinking man"

EVA FIRST PORTRAIT

Eva finally after a few months with her portrait, she end it. good for you Eva, now you can star the next one.

BERNICE DOES HER FIRST PORTRAIT

Bernice did her first portrait of a lovely child girl.

BERNICE FINISH HER FIRST PAINTING

After a few months , Bernice finally finish her first painting. Good for you Bernice, congratulations for your good work

TONI DOES HER FIRST OIL PAINTING

Toni does her first oil painting , a beautiful Mediterranean harbor with very nice boats after V.Herrero. Very nice work

BARB PAINTS A BEACH PAINTING

Barb came from holidays with the batteries full of energy ,so she started wit this beach painting after Joseph Paquet, very nice work.

EVELIN FIRST FIGURE

Evelyn brings us this sutil and beautiful figure painting. She capture the light in a very nice way.

BILL TAKE US TO CENTRAL PARK

Bill take us this time to central park in New york. A very nice work after J.Paquet

EVELYN'S BOATS

Evelyn paint a copy of Joseph Paquet's painting call January Repairs . I love the light color of the mountains at the distance.

ROSANNA'S BOATS

Rosanna has done this oil painting of boats , also a copy of Edgar Paynes. She did a beautiful job, combining texture and color in a very nice way , I kind'a like her painting more than the one of Edgar

ART COURSES FALL AND WINTER

AVEY PAINTS THIS BEAUTIFUL CHAPEL

Avey does this copy of kevin McPherson, beautiful yellows and purple

DENNIS PAINTS SOME BOATS

Dennis did a nice job doing this copy of Edgar Paynes, I love the colors and texture

BILL FIRST PORTRAIT

Bill has finish his first portrait , He din't use pencil, he did the drawing with brush burn umber color and turpentine

DENNIS PLEIN AIR PAINTING

Dennis did a good job with his painting in plein air. The shadows of the houses , and the details (white chair)are really nice.

ROSANNA FIRST OIL PORTRAIT

Rosanna is almost finish her firs oil portrait, the result is beautiful,she gives so much depth

THE GROUP GOES PLEN AIR

The painting group went to paint outside in plen air. The experience was positive, we chose a flower garden call The Corby rose garden. beautiful place full of flowers , and it was the first worm day of the summer

BARB DOES HER FIRST PORTRAIT

This time Barb surprise us with a nice portrait

EVELYN AND MONET

This was a hard painting to do for Evelyn, but she did finish nicely

GORD AND EDWARD HOOPER

Gord also did his first oil painting ,inspired in Edward hooper

JOHN ALSO DID HIS FIRST PAINTING

John went for Monet , and also got his first painting done

AVEY DOES HIS FIRST PAINTING

Avey just finish his first oil painting, an Edward hooper landscape

EVELYN FIRST PORTRAIT

Evelyn did her first portrait, here we can see the transition she took to get to the end

SHAPES

Today we are going to talk about Shapes, In painting, shapes is one of the different tools we use. When we talk shapes, we will be thinking of many different kind of shapes. positive shapes , negative shapes , beautiful shapes and ugly shapes as well as geometrical shapes and abstract shapes.
When we look at a subject with the intention to paint it, we can look to the outline of it , or we can look at it as an accumulation of many different shapes. If we look at it as the accumulation of many shapes, we will find that is easier to bring the likeness of the subject into the painting.
we all have different shapes from each other, in fact, if we look to a small photograph with a lot of people, a family photo, or a school photo and we can recognize all of them , even if their faces are tiny. We can do that because we recognize the shape of each individual.
Having this clear, if we are going to do a portrait, we should study the shapes of the person we are going to portrait and this will bring us closer to the likeness of such person. Caricaturist have very clear this concept or tool . since they have to bring a distorted likeness of the person.
If we take as an example the head of a person , here we have five distinctive shapes , one big, the head, an four small, the two eyes , the nose and the mouth . The distance and position between them will give us the right resemblance .
We will talk another time about the different kind of shapes( positive, negative, good and bad )that we have to acknowledge for painting.

BARB PAINTING FROM MONET

Barb did her second painting , she chose Monet ,it was a hard painting to do, but she did a good job.

HUNTING FOR A NEW SUBJECT

One of the first things we confront when we are going to do a painting is: what are we going to paint?
That depends on the artist, but I am going to give you a few ideas
BEAUTY.-when we see beauty on an object, a landscape or a person, we get a feeling that travels all over our body, we get animated by it. and we want to express this feeling,
we need to be move by it, so that is a good subject. how to go about this subject? We can take a photo , do a fast sketch, analyze all the aspect of beauty of the subject, can be a beautiful eyes of a person, a beautiful color of a flower , the shape of a vase. Analyze what is it that makes it more beautiful than the rest. The thing that is more beautiful, es the thing we are going to work the most in the painting, it will be the center of attention of the viewer.
A DREAM OR A VISION. we had this vision or this dream , that also brought this special feeling all over our body. This is also a good subject. How do we go about this subject?. Here is more difficult to take a photo, but we can do a fast sketch. lets put an example. a young girl writing her first love letter. your sketch will be of a young girl sitting down holding a pen with one hand and her eyes will be looking up searching for the poetry that match her emotions, may be you want to place a book or two on the table, a few flowers on a vase and a nice cup of tea. we do a sketch with every thing we want to put in it. the sketch doesn't need to be very precise. We go home, and arrange a table , some books, a cup of tea and a vase with flowers we ask a young girl, family or friend to model for us sitting in the table we have arrange, then you can take a photo or a few photos and start from there
Composition for a painting from the painter M. W

Here we have the painting done by M.W.
The part of the painting that he work the most is the eyes

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EVA FIRST PAINTING

Eva did her first painting inspired in Monet

BILL FIRST PAINTING

Here Bill also had his first try , he chose a Van Gogh painting to copy.

BARB FIRST PAINTING

And this one is Barb first painting, copy of the artist Maria Serafina

EVELYN FIRST PAINTING

Evelyn first copy of the masters , in this case she copied Manly Macdonald, a Canadian impressionist painter

ROSANNA FIRST OIL PAINTING

Rosanna did her first copy of the masters, in this case Van Gogh

WELLCOME TO THE NEW BLOG

I am creating this new blog to post the process of work that my students are doing .I will be posting the different stages of each one as they go alone with each exercise.