Color and Contemporary Still Life – Seeing Color – Sun City, SC

by admin | Oct 29, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, Still Life

It is fun to paint. But wouldn’t it be fun to see and paint the correct color? That is what this group of fine painters in Sun City South Carolina discovered at the Color and...

Pear in Light 2

by admin | Oct 5, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, Oil Paintings for Sale, Still Life

I am playing with lighting and the concept of contemporary still life. Below is my second pear painting. They make a pare. I wanted to move the eye around the painting with design and composition. Using overlap, values, lighting and color to create form and space....

It would be easier to be a lazy painter – but not as good!

by admin | Oct 2, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, Still Life

As a painter a lot of my struggles are against myself. Painting takes a lot of discipline. It’s sometimes a bother worth being bothered for to adjust a painting, even after you think it is finished. This still life of the Pear in the Light I had photographed and...

Alpena Michigan’s at Art in The Loft – Painting Knife Workshop

by admin | Sep 28, 2012 | Education, Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

I was in Alpena Michigan’s at Art in The Loft this past week instructing a painting knife workshop with a group of dedicated painters that embraced the new tool in the studio and out in plein air paintings. If you like light stations or lighthouses you will love...

Trailer – Painting with Your Eyes

by admin | Sep 6, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, plein air

PURCHASE – Painting with Your Eyes, Tips for the Plein Air Painter Urig will guide you through a process to help you become more in tune with your painting before you paint your first stroke. A step by step guide through questions that may add heightened...

Burn the learning exercises or dud paintings

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

In my workshops it seems like almost a regular part of my artistic talk, or philosophy as one commented, is that when we learn we do not need to put undo pressure on ourselves. What I mean is, we don’t have to be perfect and we don’t need to necessarily get a painting...