2 DVS to help improve your plein air painting

by admin | Jul 10, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, plein air

DVD – 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 awareness to...

Cape Cod School – Massachusetts Painters on My National Workshop Tour

by admin | Jun 30, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

This past week I had the good fortune of being blessed by a group of energetic and very hungry Massachusetts painters, through the Creative Arts Center of Chatham MA. They had a deep craving for positive concepts in painting. And this is what I gave them. Practical...

Coming Home to New Jersey

by admin | Jun 23, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, Oil Paintings for Sale

It has been many years since I lived in New Jersey. I lived here just after I graduated art school and had my first job in a publishing company designing and illustrating book covers. So it was a bit like coming home. Words like charming and picturesque are well...

Hangin’ by the dock

by admin | Jun 5, 2012 | Abstract, concepts in painting, Education, Oil Paintings for Sale

We had a lively fun group at the Cincinnati Art Club in Cincinnati Ohio this past weekend. It was the get out of the box workshop, painting with painting knives in a studio set up. We painted from photos emphasizing the importance of doing a rough preliminary painting...

Plein Air painting in the Black Mountains of North Carolina

by admin | May 29, 2012 | Abstract, concepts in painting, Education, Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

The black Mountains of North Carolina is an amazing location to plein air paint. Misty dark charcoal mountains, vast country sides with livestock and wild animals. Black Mountains, Open Land, 5 x 7 inches wide, oil on panel Black Mountains Space, 12 x 16 inches wide,...

Painters – Be all that you can be

by admin | May 24, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education

Can not help but be inspired by this motivational speech. If as painters or whatever direction you to desire to move in your life, you can apply even a few of his life’s insights, you will find a better life. I hope we can all listen to our inner voice and...