Elizabeth Reed - Trouvaille (Something lovely found by chance)

MONDAY MORNING FIGURE DRAWING AT ARTSERVE 9:45 - 11:45 in the Dance Studio THURSDAY MORNING DRAWING 9:30 - noon in the ArtServe gallery Head and necks! Marcia will be our model for the morning Check out these cool painters Thursday we  also  try group drawings (fun!) Tony Bevan Look at his use of acrylic and charcoal Incredible perspectives and abstraction of the body http://www.tonybevan.com/Tony_Bevan_welcome.html Karen Silvestro Symbolic Naratives Totally entertaining! Enjoy http://karensilvestro.com/ D.J. Hall Just wonderful colorful realistic "Girls" paintings Huge and engaging http://www.laarthouse.net/artists.asp?artist=20 TUESDAY PAINTING CLASSES AT BOCA MUSEUM SCHOOL 12:30 - 3:30 and 6:30 - 9:30 Opposites Attract Playing with notan and complements Carry on with your personal projects Cool painters of the week Wolf Kahn The master of color He combines analogous and complementary colors  Uses landscapes as abstracts

Monday Morning Figures at ArtServe 9:45 - 11: 45 in the dance studio This morning will be a Sonya kind of morning I will bring ink for those brave souls who want to work in washes Great way to loosen up Jonathan Ahn Gorgeous work, especially drawings http://www.ahnjung.com Nancy Guzik http://www.nancyguzik.com Kate Sammons http://www.katesammons.com Tuesday Painting Classes at The Boca Raton Museum School Split complementary color schemes (examples) Perspective 101 Bring your mug for tea breaks! Richard McKinley The Pastel Pointers Blog site See....I am not crazy! http://pastelpointersblog.artistsnetwork.com/default,month,2008-03.aspx Michael Naples http://mnaples.com/ Suzanne DeCuir Interesting perspectives! http://suzannedecuirfineart.com/ Thursday Drawing Class in the ArtServe Gallery SHOE DAY! Bring your favorite pair and compare with foot anatomy Don't forget your viewfinder. It will come in handy Gordon Smedt Look at his shoe co

INK THERAPY Bring your ink. Pens, pots and feathers We will experiment with differing dilutions of ink Value and notan Very cool Rami Efal http://ramiefal.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/watercolor-ink-paintings-and-drawings/ Will Cotton Look at his drawings.... http://www.willcotton.com/ David Downton  Fashion Illustrator Awesome ink drawings! http://www.daviddownton.com/ See you Thursday.

Composition Composition Composition You all have great ideas to start your paintings Each class has a student who wants to paint a landscape Perfect examples of abstraction and compositional harmony I will spend a very short time talking of composition A few simple ideas go a long way when composing your paintings A good composition holds your eye on the canvas Cool Artists of the week: Randall David Tipton Gorgeous abstract landscapes (they all are!) http://www.randalldavidtipton.com/index.php Laura Ball Watercolorist but really fun mixture of images http://www.morganlehmangallery.com/dynamic/artist_artwork.asp?ArtistID=42 Wayne Thiebaud Famous American Painter Design is everything http://artslice.blogspot.com/2008/04/thiebaud-landscapes.html See you tuesday! Pigment is Cadmium Orange

Noelle will be our model Monday morning. I will be armed with ink if you want to try to loosen up! Life drawing will continue until October 18.  After which I will be teaching at the Armory on Monday mornings. Resume figures at ArtServe in the late spring, early summer. Cool artists of the week: Daniel Peci Absolutely stunning figures in charcoal, oil and pastel http://www.danielpeci.com/index.htm Wayne Trapp Sculptor who makes incredible ink drawings Check them out http://www.zenithgallery.com/artists/trapp_wayne/Ink-Drawings.htm Now check out what else he does!  See how important drawing is to an artist! http://www.waynetrapp.com/sculptor_painter.html Willow Bader Look at her lovely gestural line under the paint Notice these are mixed media with encaustic (Hot wax with pigment) Her site talks about encaustic technique. Very Cool!  (I mean hot.) http://willowbader.com/ See you tomorrow at 9:30 am. Come to your happy place!

Creating and Using Texture Texture is an element of design, one of our tools of expression We will experiment with rubbings and rendering techniques Bring your pencil and charcoal kits Be creative! Cool Artists of the week John Baily Incredible layers of drawings and paintings Maps, stories, writing http://www.johnbailly.com/ Julie Mehretu Gestural, drawing/paintings Huge scale.  http://www.whitecube.com/artists/mehretu/ Leigh Palmer Lovely encaustic paintings Encaustic is pigment in hot wax After a layer is cool, you apply another The result is luscious and luminous http://www.leighpalmerart.com/index.php See you Thursday! Curriculum for the remainder of September Sept. 16 - INK THERAPY - using stamping techniques to create repetition Sept. 23 - SHOES! - bring in your favorite pair - armed with foot anatomy Sept. 30 - SHARED DRAWINGS - this is really fun!  As usual, if you have any subject you want to explore, say the word! Monday figure drawing

12:30 - 3:30 and 6:30 - 9:30 pm. ONE LOVE Demo of the day: Value, monochromatic painting and the power of underpainting. Handout: Anatomy of a shadow. Weekly Pigment: Cadmium Yellow Light Come with the materials you have. We will evaluate where you are and where you want to go with your paintings. I will help you plan out your ideas and show you what happens when you manipulate the shapes and values for success. Cool Artists for this week: Adrian Gottlieb Mr. Gottlieb has written a wonderful article about Verdaccio in "The Artists Magazine" this month. Verdaccio is a green underpainting for flesh tones. Grisalle is a grey underpainting or a value painting under color. These are great ways to explore the value of color and temperature shifts. Absolutely stunning oil paintings. Make sure to look at the landscapes as well as the portraits. http://www.adriangottlieb.com/Home Ingat Ignatov Painterly oil paintings. He describes his subjects with a lo

Welcome back! This class will FOCUS on Dominance Dominance of shape, value, line, color and texture Think of a very hard subject in school Looking at the whole of what you have to learn is intimidating FOCUSING on certain areas, one at a time allows you to interpret the subject. It is the same with visual art Come tomorrow with your favorite drawing materials Explore how to focus on one important element Lisa Kellner Look at these really really cool skin drawings She had to focus on a few elements to make sense of the detail too much competing for attention means nothing is noticed http://www.lisakellner.com/home Viga Clemins You can get lost in the detail of the ocean Lost in space Lost in incredible detailed paintings Check out the other artists on Art 21. Whole new world! http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/celmins/index.html Catherine Murphy! I know I have shown her here before I just love love love her work! http://art.yale.edu/CatherineMurphy See