Elizabeth Reed - Trouvaille (Something lovely found by chance)

Sunday, November 28, 2010 Armory Drawing with Charisma Monday morning Composition! Please bring any work in progress for critique We will make sense of complicated subjects Boca Museum School Painting Classes Tuesday and Friday Onward with your paintings Looking for finished pieces for Dec. 12th Open house! As promised, I will bring copies of the color wheel Thursday Drawing at ArtServe Per your request, we will be starting a drawing to FINISH! I am needed at the Board Meeting of NAWA on Dec. 9, so no class I will photograph your subject matter and send it to you via email Finish outside of class and return for critique Please bring good paper and the tools of your choice Please email me to let me know you are coming! Cool Artists of the Week Paul S. Brown Classical Realism This man loves great wine and cigars as well as many other finer things in life Notice his color choices - evidence of the "three finger salute!" He paints his s

Armory Art Center Monday Morning Drawing Gesture! Here is a link to Patricia Hanaway's article in Artists magazine She is an animator and draws WHAT THE MODEL IS DOING! Get ready to draw small and large  Long stick experiments http://www.artistdaily.com/blogs/pastel/archive/2008/05/07/patricia-a-hannaway-drawing-what-the-model-is-doing.aspx Check out Patricia's web site http://www.patriciaahannaway.com/ ' Bruno Blanchard Modernist work with high energy markings and peaceful passages Great translation from figurative to abstract gesture http://www.blanchard-bruno.com/index.html for you, Arnie Boca Museum School Painting Classes Tuesdays and Friday mornings Carry on with your paintings I am looking for a finished piece from each one of you Show-offs for Dec. 12th open house Cool Artists of the Week From my dear friend, Ellen Blanco Ernesto Nemesio Classic use of the medium Notice his color choices - all in the family! Absolutely stunni

Art is Creation David Myers Catalogues all pigments Links to online suppliers Everything you wanted to learn about pigments  check out his blog! Very cool ideas. BRAVO DAVID! http://www.artiscreation.com/index.html

Monday morning at the Armory Art Center Today is the day! -  Self portraits Since you will be gone for Thanksgiving I will cover a gesture lesson in brief High expectations for your sketchbooks in travel Tuesdays and Fridays at Boca Museum School Carry on with your personal paintings Demo on split complementary palettes and underpainting Illustrating unusual color choices that work! Friday we will discuss opaque and transparent paints and how to use them effectively Thursdays at ArtServe - See you Dec. 2nd! Cool Artists of the week Linnea Strid http://www.linneastrid.se/ Ignat Ignatov http://www.ignatovart.com/ Jerry Dame http://data.fineartstudioonline.com/dataviewer.asp?keyvalue=5329 John O'Reilly Look how he started! http://www.jorgallery.com/index.html Benjamin Anderson http://www.benjaminanderson.com/ Mary Beck http://www.marybeck.artspan.com/home See you in class!

Armory Art Center Monday Morning Drawing and ArtServe Thursday Morning Drawing  (Remember time is 10 - 12 meaning we start at 10 ) Perspective! I will introduce and review the simple system of perspective We will also discuss informal perspective  This means reinforcing sighting and measuring proportion aka using your right brain Check out Rudolf Stussi He wrote an article in Artists Mag June 2010 "The Fifth Perspective" Outrageous! I just love these! Especially the murals http://www.rudolfstussi.com/ We will look at his process but draw from life around us Boca Raton Museum School Painting Classes Tuesday morning and afternoons & Friday morning More thoughts on color choices More information on organizing landscapes from photos YOU ARE THE EDITOR! Cool Artists of the week Simon Birch Very gestural-you can almost see his color choices http://www.simon-birch.com/ Mark Boyle From Seattle. They are geoduck hunting on that beach!

PETRO DIPTYCH 2 - 18 x 24" Graphite, silverpoint and metallic powder on aluminum They are on two different walls right now reunited soon

OPENING THIS FRIDAY Armory Art Center Faculty show I am showing PETRO 1 I am so excited to be a part of this incredible group of artists What an honor! PS. They serve martinis at their openings! How civilized.....