Art Workshop At Art Student's League |

Feb 12 2009

Art Student’s League New York City

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 Wayne, Katherine Hepburn and Tony Bennett to name a few. The workshop was at the historic Art Student's League of New York City. This is the second time I have made this journey and I do feel that I have grown as an artist since the first workshop and hope that I'll continue to learn, improve and evolve as an artist.

Since I haven't painted anything in a little while, I'm sharing a few pictures of my trip. I have hundreds of pictures but most of them are of works of art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and The Hispanic Society of America in Harlem. I've narrowed hundreds of pictures down to only 12--a very difficult feat.

I was so excited when we approached New York City that I had to take a shadow shot of our plane, the clouds had to be just right!

This is the famous Statue of Liberty, I've only seen it via the air.

The Big Apple--isn't this awesome?

Can you tell we were ready to eat some New York Cheese Cake? This small piece fed 5 of us.

This is me at the gates of The Hispanic Society of America. There were beautiful paintings there by some of my favorite artists.

Inside The Hispanic Society of America Museum. You can see a small portion of the gorgeous paintings and sculptures.

Here I am getting ready for my workshop, packing all my "stuff". Our hotel was less than a block away--very convenient.

Inside our classroom at the workshop. There were about 40 participants in two rooms so needless to say it was cozy but lots of creative juices were flowing.