NATONAL ART LEAGUE DEMO NIGHT
OIL PAINTING DEMO
Friday, October 2
The evening is FREE, and ALL are invited.
*I will be offering a painting to be RAFFLED OFF to some lucky member of the audience.
I am invited to do an oil painting demo at the NAL from a flower set-up. I will be the FIRST Friday demo artist for October. I am looking forward to this evening and invite my students to attend what will be an informative and entertaining evening. I usually Demo in Pastel, however, as I also paint in Oils, I would like to offer this view of my Oil painting approach and direct painting techniques.
NATIONAL ART LEAGUE
OIL AND PASTEL WORKSHOP
Saturday, October 3rd
1-4 pm
ALL LEVELS WELCOME
I am excited to offer a Saturday class for those who are not available during the week. I am looking for new students NEW to me and NEW to NAL. If you have friends who are thinking of beginning to honor their inner artist, I will be happy to help introduce the concepts and joy of making art!
CUMBERLAND FALL CLASSES
PASTELS
Thursday, October 8
1 - 4pm
PAINT LIKE VAN GOGH-ALMOST
Limited Palette and Palette Knife Painting
DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER
Late afternoon class
ART LEAGUE OF LONG ISLAND
A COMMON THREAD:AN EXHIBITION OF PORTRAITS & FIGURES
MY SELF-PORTRAIT IS ON EXHIBIT
Opens Sunday, Oct 4
Reception 3 -5
For Information and to register email me at artzoneny@earthlink.net or call 917 723 3362
Thursday, September 17, 2009
New Projects
It takes me a few days to settle in to a location before I feel ready to paint. Prior to that I traveled the countryside taking hundreds of shots for future reference, food shopped, and socialized on my annual August pilgrimage, I finally got busy on the Cobalt Farmhouse property.
I have painted this corner of the world often and continue to find it a beautiful, challenging, user friendly place to paint. The sky was totally spectacular, bubbling and erupting endlessly. I think I might have been better served to have concentrated on the sky only.
Having my creative juices flowing, it felt good to do some work in a beloved area with a lot of history for me. I have wanted to do this sort of experimentation with some rather toxic chemistry available to me in the Cobalt storeroom. These paints and potions for the scenic painting trade, are not in my studio anymore since I donated most of my
materials from my decorative painting years to Materials for the Arts. I picked from the vast array materials amassed over 20 years of teaching Theatre Arts. I worked outside to minimize my reactions to these materials, and wailed away.
Oil, 26" x22", on canvas
This canvas has been painted over now, 2 years in a row, not yet satisfied. I may do another from the painting itself. Working on site, I do feel obligated to paint what I see, if I redo it in the studio, I will be more likely to do a freer and colorful version.
12" x 16", on canvas
The morning sunrise (yes I was awakened by the color flooding my bedroom) was so great after days of grey weather that I ran out doors like a loonie to photograph it, The feeling remained and spilled over into the work shown here.
This is the painting for Artists Fellowship Fundraiser.
Small size canvases are no less problematic then larger ones.
materials from my decorative painting years to Materials for the Arts. I picked from the vast array materials amassed over 20 years of teaching Theatre Arts. I worked outside to minimize my reactions to these materials, and wailed away.
Oil, 26" x22", on canvas
This canvas has been painted over now, 2 years in a row, not yet satisfied. I may do another from the painting itself. Working on site, I do feel obligated to paint what I see, if I redo it in the studio, I will be more likely to do a freer and colorful version.
First experiment, tinted shellas, aniline dyes, over-glazed, 12" x 12"
12" x 16", on canvas
The morning sunrise (yes I was awakened by the color flooding my bedroom) was so great after days of grey weather that I ran out doors like a loonie to photograph it, The feeling remained and spilled over into the work shown here.
This is the painting for Artists Fellowship Fundraiser.
Small size canvases are no less problematic then larger ones.
Friday, July 31, 2009
July 20-24 2009: Plein Air Workshop on Mount Desert Island, Acadia, Maine
There were wonderful facilities at Acadia Workshop Center, a variety of weather conditions and a group of talented and enthusiastic participants for this painting intensive. I loved the area, and it was an intensely green world due to the heavy rain fall this June and July.
Meeting this challenge head on, I devised exercises in color mixing (limited palette). The objective was to learn to love and differentiate the "greens," increasing one's color knowledge by limiting the accessible and obvious solutions. Students actually increased their color knowledge when working from a warm and cool primary triad of colors.The vast potential and fun of creating the colors seen on site, exemplified the spirit and practice of plein air.
The color palette used consisted of; Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Cadmium Red Light, Alizarin Permanent, Ultramarine Blue, and Cobalt Blue/or Phthalo Blue, and Titanium White. The student's work in oils shows the variety of color developed over the course of the week.
Meeting this challenge head on, I devised exercises in color mixing (limited palette). The objective was to learn to love and differentiate the "greens," increasing one's color knowledge by limiting the accessible and obvious solutions. Students actually increased their color knowledge when working from a warm and cool primary triad of colors.The vast potential and fun of creating the colors seen on site, exemplified the spirit and practice of plein air.
The color palette used consisted of; Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Cadmium Red Light, Alizarin Permanent, Ultramarine Blue, and Cobalt Blue/or Phthalo Blue, and Titanium White. The student's work in oils shows the variety of color developed over the course of the week.
Reflection in a Tidal Pond
These are inspirational photos of reflections in a tidal pool area which we had painted throughout the week. The challenge for the trip was the overly verdant palette of "greens". This was my first opportunity to do some work after the Workshop ended and I was still in the area.
Gestural pastel color sketch of the movements on Kitty Wallis on a sanded surface. Working directly on to the surface with a sketchy approach in color and line to find the dominant shapes and color areas.
Continued development of the theme in local color, trying to find the correct greens of the areas. I used primarily soft pastels and strong color for this sketch. The intensity of the visuals and the area cried out for bold color choices.
Adding more strokes of different color to form the matrix of shapes. The pine trees, the grasses, and the moving water combined to create strong dark and light areas of broken color. Everything vibrated and moved making it a perfect impressionist subject.
Close-up of area to show application and variety of impressionist color and strokes, I hope to do other paintings of this subject in more relaxed and colorful interpretations.
Water reflections as broken color strokes, as well as larger masses of color. Feeling a little "Monet" with this area of the painting.
Attention given to edges, watery feeling in the reflections, as well as grasses in the foreground area completes this pastel in the studio. I am looking forward to a series of the "Greens of July in Maine."
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