Elizabeth Reed - Trouvaille (Something lovely found by chance)

The Vortex Scrolls 38 x 76" Graphite and metallic pigment on frosted mylar hung as scrolls November 1 - 5 Monday Armory Art Center Value! Tuesday and Friday Boca Raton Museum School Painting I will acquaint myself with your needs I will have some articles to share with you Thursday, Dear ArtServe Students Here is your 7 week curriculum per our discussion last week Nov. 4 - Color Theory 101 - a little goes a long way bring color - what ever you use We will incorporate drawing into our choices I will have my assortment of WC and Acrylics Bring gessoed paper if you use acrylics Nov. 11 - Perspective and colored pencils It is not necessary to use colored pencils If you have a set, bring them I will bring a few buckets full of them Nov. 18 - No Class - THANKSGIVING I teach a workshop for Plantation Art Guild Nov. 25 - THANKSGIVING DAY Dec. 2 -  FORSHORTENING! "The F word!" and Composition You know nothing unless you look! Dec. 9 -

Check out this site. You will learn SO MUCH! Geared towards oil painters but the pigments are similar for acrylics. http://www.gamblincolors.com/newsletters/studionotes19.html Check out Gamblin's color space video.  Very very cool. Don't forget to sign up for the next session! See you tomorrow.

Hot off my press PETRO 1 Graphite, silverpoint and metallic pigment on aluminum 18 x 24" fossil fuel? Cool Artists of the Week I-Ming Modern Impressionist Lovely handling of paint! http://artandcritique.com/i-ming-impressionist-paintings/ Jeffrey Larson YUMMY! Drawing machines and absolutely stunning figures, landscapes and still lifes http://www.jeffreytlarson.com/index.asp The Hive Fernando Orellana These drawings were made by mechanical machines The marks are random and just gorgeous Wild idea! http://fernandoorellana.com/projects/the-hive/ For those of you just starting with me at the Armory Robert Vickrey Egg Tempera painter extaordinaire!!!! Love love love these paintings They are very large scale for egg tempera http://www.treesplace.com/Artist%20pages/Artists/Vickrey/Image%20Lists/Vickrey-Page%201%20of%201.htm To my painting and drawing students.... Get ready for a SCARY STILL LIFE!! See you there!

FIGURE DRAWING Monday, October 18th ArtServe Dance Studio 9:45 - 11:45 am Vesna This is my final figure group until the spring I am off to teach, "Drawing with Charisma!" at the Armory Please consider coming thursdays in the gallery Clothed models are an option I have enjoyed watching you grow This is a wonderful group KEEP WORKING! Cool Artists! Fred Hatt http://fredhatt.com/blog/2009/10/30/opening-the-closed-pose/ Jason Juan http://www.jasonjuan.com/2010/OilPainting/index.html Don Bodine http://donbodine.com/ BOCA MUSEUM SCHOOL Painting classes Tuesday, October 19 12:30 - 3:30 and 6:30 - 9:30 Transparent vs. Opaque Demonstrate these qualities in paint and pigment Use transparency as a tool for good design Conflict, dominance, balance Thomas Jefferson Kitts This man CAN PAINT! http://www.thomaskitts.com/tjkpaintings/Home.html Sadie J. Valeri http://www.sadievaleri.com/index.html David Rourke's blog about glazing. 

I AM SO PROUD OF MY KIDS AND THEIR BAND! JP Taravella Marching Band Competition 230 teenagers marching in formation at Vero Beach High School yesterday Check it out!  CARMEN Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3txFGFYWKg Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&v=LIAlLHBl3Hw&annotation_id=annotation_293076 Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcBfY4mOYFs We are all thoroughly exhausted!

This is a wonderful example of how this blog will work for you! WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson "If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas." Check out this review in Arts Journal http://www.salon.com/books/nonfiction/index.html?story=/books/feature/2010/10/12/steven_johnson_interview SO  Visual Archaeology!

Monday Morning Figure Drawing ArtServe Dance Studio 9:30 - 11:45 The lovely Noelle will be the model this morning. We have two more weeks of this class, then off to the Armory Art Center for me. Tuesday Painting Classes at Boca Museum School Some of you will be trying oils.  We will make an interesting still life for practice. Thursday Drawing Classes in the ArtServe Gallery We will be DRAWING MACHINES (last week's theme) Bring your viewfinders. (I have some of yours in my basket.) Cool Artists! Notice that some of them paint and draw.  Melissa Imosi Classical academic drawings and incredible paintings. Very realistic and delightfully done. http://www.melissaimossi.com/index.php Paul W. Ruiz Notice how he makes paintings on top of his drawings. Lovely play with abstraction and detail. http://www.paulwruiz.com/#4 Ray Turner I saw his work at Scope, Art Basel last year He paints on glass that has been shattered. Very very interesting. http://rayturner.us/ind

Monday Morning Figure Drawing at ArtServe Astrid is our model - just wonderful! Perfect model to reinforce the muscles of the head and neck. Cool Artists: Aaron Westerberg Elegant beauty Written up in Artists' mag this month http://www.westerberg-fineart.com/ Alyssa Monks Oh My!  Abstractions and reality http://www.alyssamonks.com/index.asp Kim Buck Aussie Huge lovely charcoal drawings Get to work kids! http://www.kimbuck.com.au/index.html Tuesday Painting Classes at Boca Museum School Demo more brush stroke techniques while you work on your paintings Cool Artists: Daniel Greene The master! Oil and pastel He and his wife have a farm where they teach He is master of ceremonies at the  Portrait Society of America conventions http://www.danielgreeneartist.com/ Randall Exon http://www.hirschlandadler.com/exhibitions_1.html?id=1145 David Schwindt http://www.davidschwindt.com/ Interesting article about value and color in Artists