Tuesday 8 December 2009

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

Tuesday 1 December 2009

STUDENT EXHIBITION



Everybody is welcome to our show

Tuesday 24 November 2009

MARY AND E. HOOPER


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

Wednesday 18 November 2009

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

Tuesday 10 November 2009

BARB PAINTS HER FIRST FIGURE


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

Wednesday 28 October 2009

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

Wednesday 21 October 2009

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.

Thursday 15 October 2009

EVELIN FIRST FIGURE



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

Thursday 24 September 2009

BILL TAKE US TO CENTRAL PARK


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

Tuesday 15 September 2009

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

Monday 17 August 2009

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

Monday 10 August 2009

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.

Wednesday 5 August 2009

ROSANNA FIRST OIL PORTRAIT


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

Tuesday 28 July 2009

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

Tuesday 14 July 2009

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

Monday 6 July 2009

EVELYN FIRST PORTRAIT


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

Tuesday 30 June 2009

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.

Thursday 18 June 2009

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.

Monday 15 June 2009

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

Wednesday 10 June 2009

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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

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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.