Plien Air to Abstraction – Live Interview with Stuart Shils

by admin | Feb 11, 2015 | Abstract, concepts in painting, Education, plein air

Streamed Live on February 3, 2015, with the Creative Underground. As a painter Stuart Shils has explored many avenues. While painting outdoors it changed his path as a painter. Seeing the abstract qualities and gestures of his paint seemed so much more powerful than...

New Cubism? Woman in Relief

by admin | Jan 28, 2015 | Abstract, concepts in painting, Education

Cubism has always intrigued me, beginning in my youth. I loved Picasso and later to find out Braque where the major contributors to the moment. How could you not like Pablo Picasso he was so prolific as a painter. He seemed to have a very interesting life, and he was...

In search of Cubism

by admin | Dec 22, 2014 | Abstract, concepts in painting, Education, Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

Cubism fascinated me as a young artist. I must have been in the fourth grade marveling over the concept of three-dimensional space represented from all sides on a flat plane. Wow, how intriguing. A thought Pablo Picasso was it. He was a painter. I would look at M. C....

Leisure Painter, December 2014 article by Daryl Urig – Figure Work

by admin | Nov 18, 2014 | Abstract, Education, plein air

I was very pleased when Leisure Painter Magazine picked up my article on “Figure Work” that discusses a few different approaches in capturing a figure in paint. Included are outdoor painting studies. It is a very open minded magazine that provides a range of concepts...

Sneak Peak at the Studio – Creative Underground

by admin | Sep 16, 2014 | Abstract, concepts in painting, Education

I hope you had fun with my intro movie about my new studio as I did. If you look closely you can get a sneak peak of the studio. Just trying to figure out the best way to design the space is a challenge. The space will require a sitting area for demonstrations...

Exploring the figure

by admin | Aug 6, 2014 | Abstract, concepts in painting

I have been exploring the figure in my last few paintings. Definitely I am not attempting to have one painting style. Instead an exploratory of abstraction, conceptual, opposites, exploring new concepts in rhythm and motion while developing dexterity with the painting...