Elizabeth Reed - Trouvaille (Something lovely found by chance)

Thursdays at ArtServe have officially come to an end. I will miss all of you as you have become my friends. DRAW EVERY DAY!  I look forward to one more day in my studio. Upcoming events: Bonnie Shapiro will be substituting for my Boca Museum School Painting classes on Friday, Feb. 11 and Tuesday, Feb. 15 She makes incredible landscape and figure paintings in oil A fantastic painter and fellow critique group member I am asking her to bring in some of her work and discuss her methods http://bonnieshapiro.artspan.com I am excited to be Steven Assael's assistant at his Drawing workshop February 9 - 12 - It is not full - Care to join me? http://www.stevenassael.com/ The Armory Art Center 1700 Parker Avenue West Palm Beach, FL 33401 561.832.1776 www.armoryart.org I will also be presenting a 3 day workshop for The Delray Art League Tuesday - Thursday, Feb. 13 - 15 10 - 4 We will experiment with aluminum, mylar and silk chiffon. Cool Artists of the w

Cool Artists of the Week Patrick McGrath Muniz http://www.mindysolomon.com/artists/index.php?artist=Patrick%20McGrath%20Muniz Hiroshi Senju I saw this work at Art Basel Huge florescent paintings http://www.hiroshisenju.com/ Peter Doig http://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/_30/ Linda Stojak http://www.stephenhallergallery.com/artists/stojak/index.html El Anatsui Very cool http://www.jackshainman.com/artist-image62.html ArtServe Thursday Class Goodbye my dear friends! We will draw conflicting elements and discuss the power in their placement. Then - off to lunch! It has been my pleasure to have you in my class. Thank you for all of your support. I have decided that this will be the last of these classes My schedule has eaten me up - drained my studio time. We will keep in touch. Here is the link I promised about the high school golden mean art. Very interesting. http://www.goldenmeanart.com/ I went to see "The Kings Speech&q

Check out Susie Monday's blog Great NOTAN excercises Let's give them a try tomorrow! http://susiemonday.squarespace.com/journal/tag/notan

Cool Artists of the Week SantoCesar A link from Jen Toplak, a fellow DBA exhibitor and incredible painter Classical Beauty across the board http://www.santocesar.com/ Annie Murphy Robinson stunning drawings http://www.drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram/share_portfolio.cfm?pf=874 Melissa Imossi Realist Contemporary Drawings and Paintings http://www.melissaimossi.com/home Scherer and Ouporov My friends who are artists in residence at the Armory Art Center Stunning egg tempera as well as contemporary statements http://www.schererandouporov.com/ See you in class!

ArtServe  Drawing Students Talk about unusual techniques Salt Drawing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mV433j_LUI Water Drawing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEUbLHj524Q&NR=1 Wind Drawings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxhyaYei1Og

Sunday, January 9, 2011 COOL ARTISTS OF THE WEEK. Alexis Rockman Featured on the cover of ART IN AMERICA, December, 2010 Incredible imagination Notice the materials he uses http://www.leokoenig.com/artist/view/460 Jose-Maria Cundin Anti-portraits Keep in mind our discussions on dominance Love these! http://www.leokoenig.com/artist/view/460 Carol Mothner Absolutely stunning work in a wide variety of mediums Portraits in pencil and egg tempera A true "renaissance" artist with a twist http://www.gpgallery.com/works/search/163/0/0/0/0/0/0/1 Brian Rutenberg Lessons in color! http://www.gpgallery.com/works/search/163/0/0/0/0/0/0/1 Will Cotton Candy girls Make sure to look at his drawings! The essence of the image http://www.willcotton.com/ Please join me this week for two receptions DBA Wednesday, Jan. 12, 5 - 7:30 and my personal figurative paintings and drawings  "From Life!"

Installing my share of the DBA exhibit tomorrow Abandoned Silverpoint, graphite and metallic pigment on aluminum 38 x 24" See you all in class next week!