Southwest Art Magazine - December Issue

This month my "Golden Girls" are in the Southwest Art Magazine.  They are in the Dutch Art Gallery.  Stop by and see them if you are in the Dallas area.  Its in the bookstores right now.

American Art Collector Magazine November Issue

You'll find my work in this months issue of the American Art Collector Magazine.

Demo at the Dutch Art Gallery

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.  I did.

Here are a couple of photos of the demo at the The Dutch Art Gallery that I did on November 20th.  There is a terrific show going on there now through the end of December for those of you in the Dallas area.

"Golden Trio"

20x16 oil on panel

Last week's Class

It was so gorgeous outside we couldn't resist the temptation.  So we moved everything outside for our class last wednesday.  Days like this are rare in Houston.

  

  

More Pictures for September classes

Sorry for the delay.  Here are more pictures of the still life's we painted in the September classes.

 

  

Still Lifes from last class

Sorry for the delay but here are the still life photos from last class.
Feel free to print them out so you can work on your paintings.

Each one is from a little different view point so each of you would have a picture from where you were sitting.

Remember where you light source is coming from when you continue to paint your still life.

This weeks focus was on clouds.

We all worked on clouds for the first class this month and hopefully you have practiced during the week.  Of course now that we are focusing on clouds all the rain clouds have gone away.  The next class we will still be doing clouds but will try to portray a dramatic sunset.  

I'm sure we'll all have lots of fun with it. 

Carmen decided it was time to pick up the brushes again after years of not painting and is so excited about it.

Rene loves her intense color palette.  Great clouds Rene!

Make sure you bring a blank canvas with you each time you come to class.

If you have any photos of some great cloud formations, by all means bring them.

See you Wednesday

This week you have a choice of photos.  Print out which one you would like to paint.

I know I said that I didn't want to do water and rocks on the same day, but what the heck.  Lets go for it If you want to.

If you want to still work on your painting we've been working on, go ahead and bring that too.  Also, if you have a landscape photo of your own that you would like to paint, bring that too.

See you tomorrow.

I was asked by a student to put the direction for how to make pine trees on the blog.

So here it goes.  Sorry for the bad quality of photos I was holding the brush with one hand and the camera in the other.

First start by establishing where the ground is then by how tall you want the tree and put in vertical marks to indicate it.

Use a mixture of Ultramarine blue yellow and purple and a little burnt sienna for the basic tree color. Turn your brush horizontally and start by making very thin horizontal strokes and get a little larger as you go down the tree.

Establish where your light source is coming from and make that side in shadow.  Then add yellow to the green mixture (not white) for the highlight side.

Turn your brush vertically and put in a few strokes for the trunk where it shows through the branches.

Go back and go over the trunk marks  so they don't stand out too much.

Here is the finished tree.

March 2010 Landscape Class

Are you ready for painting tomorrow?

Got all your supplies?  Something to carry them in?

For those that have not been to my classes before, it will be up stairs at Homewood Suites on Hwy 59  at high Noon.

There will be a sign for which room.  

Please print this photo out and bring it to class.  This will be our first landscape we will work on.  

If you have trouble printing this out let me know.

If you have any questions, please email or call me.

See you then!!!