Weekend Retreat

admin | February 24, 2009

Last weekend I was invited to a little retreat to a cabin hosted by my cousin Terry and her daughter Jaime. There were 19 of us in all (including 5 children) and we were instructed to bring our sewing machines. Terry is an excellent quilter and we were…

My Kinstler Workshop Study

admin | February 17, 2009

This is my study of the model on the first day of Mr. Kinstler’s workshop. My goal was to make sure that I got my values right in addition to my light/dark pattern (the light side of the face versus the dark side). Mr. Kinstler wiped out the right ey…

Art Student’s League New York City

admin | February 12, 2009

Last week I traveled to New York City with several of my friends from our Monday night Open Model Session to attend an inspiring workshop with Mr. Everett Raymond Kinstler. Mr. Kinstler is an amazing artist that has painted several US Presidents, John…

Winter Forest

admin | February 4, 2009

I had a few goals in mind before starting this painting: one day to paint itPAINT BIGpile the paint onsubject matter was treesSo I jogged over to some trees next to our house and snapped a reference picture and began painting. It was such a beautiful d…