Elizabeth Reed - Trouvaille (Something lovely found by chance)

Lately, I have been working on portraits and figures. Confidence comes from practice. Always looking to push myself into different methods of describing form and feeling.  Cool Artists of the Week Chris Stevens Look how he challenges you with the placement of his images. The use of differing perspectives draws your attention. His experience and technical ability is complemented by great design. Mark Karnes Master of ink washes and draws like a painter. Look carefully at how he manipulates edges and shadows in his drawings. Karnes suggests reality - like a poem. Kathleen Dunphy I am in awe of this huge body of work from life. Dunphy paints from life - outdoors - in all weather.  Strong design and wonderful sense of color. Douglas McDougall Detail with imagination! Elisabetta Tevisan Magic! This is the last week of the term at Boca Museum School. I hope to see you all next term! 

Every month a group of respected artists/friends meet for "Critique group" This Sunday, the word of the afternoon was "destroy it! I'm bored!" How do we artists push ourselves to think differently? "Release yourself from yourself," Steve Assael I guess my aching arm, back and hand are trying to tell me to  "step away from the painting." Friday, I took my few painting students to the Boca Raton Museum of Art First, we wandered through Frederico Uribe's incredible installation He was awarded a grant from puma shoe company Created an entire rainforest from partially completed PUMA shoes IT IS A MUST SEE! Very refreshing, clever and fun. Frederico Uribe   Really look at how he found similar shapes He saw flowers in plumbing parts, wings in artificial nails. Here is an artist who thinks! Don't miss this exhibit! It will be leaving in early November. Juan Bautista Nieto  Unbelievable  Stunning...

Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011 Mastermind of Mac and Apple products.  Simplicity for the masses. Isn't it so? How hard to stay true to your inner heart and intuition. It takes guts. Interesting article in September 2011 Artists magazine by Jane Jones. In the "Brushing up" section. Check out a diluted version of complementary compositions    Jones details different ways to use intensity (chroma) to control your focus The article has some great examples of simultaneous contrast I will bring it to class to show you - good example. Cool artists of the week Max Ferguson  Hyper real, extremely well composed.  Ferguson was trained in Amsterdam. He adheres canvas to aluminum. His portraits are incredible. Across the board, well done. Drawings, watercolors, oils, etchings.  Kent Lovelace  Gorgeous oil on copper. Featured in Sept. Artists Mag. He lives on Widbey Island, WA. Near where I used to live. A magical spot. Lovely li...

Zephyr will be exhibited in The 49th Founder's Juried Awards Exhibition at the Von Liebig Art Center in Naples October 15 - December 3, 2011 Cool Artists of the week 9-11 tribute  Russian Surrealist Andrey Goldin pays tribute to Manhattan and 9-11 Stephen Dinsmore - for you, Ed Kaplan! Ethan Murrow's Big Paper Airplane - beautifully rendered imaginative drawings! Iva Gueorguieva - beautiful abstracts John Gurbacks Jm Sullivan - Highly rendered imaginative drawings

I will be flying to NYC tomorrow morning to attend Steven Assael's figure painting workshop So .... Classes will be rescheduled in the next week I will be returning for May 24th class at the Boca School. May 31 is the first day of the summer term Classes are month to month  I will be teaching at Boca Raton Museum School this summer The Expressive Portrait on Thursday mornings 9 - 12 Experimental Painting techniques Thursdays 12:30 - 3:30  Painting all day on Fridays.  I will also teach drawing and portfolio building at Coral Springs MoA Saturdays 10 - 3. Cool artists of the week Jaume Plensa Damian Loeb, photo realist Jamie Adams Look how the drawing style translates into painting Lili Maglione Wonderful use of neutrals in her abstract paintings Ferdinand De Szyszlo Abstract Peruvian artist. Wonderful sense of color. See you all in one week!

Tuesday, April 19, 2001 Sorry for the delay! My computer was in the hospital. I am now teaching tuesday and friday all day  Boca Raton Museum School. Robert Vickrey's incredible egg tempera paintings on exhibit at the Boca Raton Museum of Art I found out today that he passed away recently, like a few days ago. Fantastic work. Don't miss it. Cool Artists of the Week: Malcolm Morley Check out the size of these classic fighter pilot paintings! Camille Patha Dynamite use of color! For the tuesday few. Freya Grand Absolutely stunning landscapes! Hurvin Anderson Little Paper Planes Pae White ! See you in class!

The lovely Noelle will be our model To start Gestures. In pen. No Outlines! check out these great sites Steven Grant LaRose Look how he developed the form interior then iced it with contour line http://stevenlarose.blogspot.com/2010/06/r-gesture-drawings.html Dale Chihuly gestures for chandeliers the ultimate in gestures http://www.chihuly.com/drawings/drbyseries.html Bill Shelley Landscape and figure paintings http://bshelley.com/ Just because they are beautiful William Wittaker http://www.williamwhitaker.com A HUGE thank you to Jackie Lyles and once again Connie Folz for supporting this class....even when they are traveling This is a very special group of students See you Monday!