Woman in the Desert

by admin | Mar 14, 2012 | Education, Oil Paintings for Sale

What an awesome time with wonderful people in Palm Desert CA, with wonderful people, in an area that has so much to offer. The workshop helped painters to develop a process from taking pictures of a figure in a landscape setting, selecting a photo for painting, not...

Forrest’s Landed Shrimper Boat

by admin | Mar 11, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, Oil Paintings for Sale

I photographed this boat at the same location as the Bubba Shrimp Co. was in the Forrest Gump movie, in South Carolina on my trip to the Carolinas last year. I am returning this month, in March 2012 to present workshops down the coast on my National Tour. This...

Summary of past blog posts:

by admin | Feb 24, 2012 | Table of Contents

A Short Demo for Urig’s Self-Portraiture Workshop – YouTube Video A Short Demo for Urig’s Self-Portraiture Workshop – YouTube Video Open Media Self-Portraiture and Understanding the Human Face – Cincinnati Art Club Open Media Self-Portraiture...

A Short Demo for Urig’s Self-Portraiture Workshop – YouTube Video

by admin | Feb 20, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education

I enjoy immensely the workshops I teach, the enthusiasm of the artists, the new excitement they gain from the new things they have learned and of course meeting the artists. It hard to put into words or picture what the Self-Portrait and Understanding the Human face...

Open Media Self-Portraiture and Understanding the Human Face – Cincinnati Art Club

by admin | Feb 13, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education

This past week Urig taught a Self-portrait Workshop, The kick off Workshop for his National Tour beginning this year, at the Pendleton Location for the Cincinnati Art Club. One of the oldest Art Clubs in the Nation established 1890. The workshop met with great...

Urig Demo with Cincinnati Water Color Society on Self-Portraiture and Understanding the Human Face

by admin | Feb 2, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education

Urig Demonstrating before the Cincinnati Water Color Society on Self-Portraiture and Understanding the Human Face. Urig used a balloon to help his audience understand the basic principles of the heads proportions in practical imaginable terms. Bottom Right: Urig and...

2012 National Workshop Tour – Dates & Locations Schedule

by admin | Jan 23, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, plein air

More information and descriptions here – Click Here —– February 2012 —- February 1, 2012 – SELF PORTRAIT (Water Soluble Oils) Greater Cincinnati Watercolor Society At the Cincinnati art Club, 10 am. 1021 Parkside Place, Cincinnati OH...

Docked Clam and Shrimp Boat

by admin | Jan 18, 2012 | Education, Oil Paintings for Sale

This painting gave me great enjoyment, as I painted from reference back in the studio. I really enjoy the subject matter having grown up in Avon Lake Ohio, one block from the water of Lake Erie. Lake Erie was an ocean to me, that large body of water with huge waves,...

Not far from the path, but on a Journey

by admin | Jan 10, 2012 | concepts in painting

Going to the art museum was comforting. Seeing that other artists struggle with the same things I do let’s me know that I may not be that far off. Some solutions in paint where successful others where not, or how I would not do them. There is nothing perfect in...

DVD – Candid Conversatons while Urig Paints a Southern Home

by admin | Jan 9, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

A delightful and artistically informative event with nationally recognized American Painter Daryl Urig plein-air painting a southern home on a river street. Passerbyers and artists in his workshop alike engage Urig with questions about his art and painting with a...