Elizabeth Reed - Trouvaille (Something lovely found by chance)

The model today will be the lovely Vesna. Please try to utilize the mirrors for an unusual composition opportunity. The space between the two images, her body and her reflection, is quite intriguing. Come enjoy a morning of meditation and drawing with great company and wonderful music. Cool Artists of the week: Thomas Dodd He is a photographer with a sensitivity towards the pre Raphaelites Absolutely stunning work. http://thomasdodd.com/index.html Scott Burdick and Susan Lyon Both painters and partners who travel the world looking for new subjects Check out their incredible travel journals! http://www.scottburdick.com/ Finnish painter Tina Heiska http://www.tiinaheiska.fi/index.html Lu Cong http://www.lucong.com/ Enjoy! Due to most of us traveling in the next month, Thursday classes have come to a halt until September.  Those of you who are traveling.... We miss you and hope you are enjoying the blog! Come back refreshed and ready to draw! ...

PEN DAY 102  I am bringing big big paper (newsprint) Bring fun photos and a ball point pen (and pencils) we will scale them so you can make big drawings draw every day draw every day draw every day!!!!!!!!! draw every day draw every day draw every day draw every day draw every day draw every day draw every day draw every day Check out Sean Buckley Ball point pen - HUGE drawings! Love love love these ball point pen drawings. http://seanbuckley.ca/blog/2008/01/28/pen-art-giant-bic-pen-drawings/

It's a Sonya kind of morning tomorrow! We will carry on with gestures, measuring and proportion. Come join us for monday meditation. Cool Artists of the week. Just for fun: Giuseppe Arcimboldo http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/ Charles W. Dwyer http://www.onessimofineart.com/artists/Dwyer/Charles_Dwyer_Originals.html And now for something completely different Anthony Green from the UK http://anthonygreen.org.uk/paintings.html Mercedes Helnwein Incredible pencil drawings - Check out her "journal" or blog http://www.mercedeshelnwein.com/ Enjoy! Happy summer. See you tomorrow!

Marcia will be our model  I will share my Feet 101 lesson with you Simple shape anatomy of feet. I will bring extra hand handouts too. Spend some time with this! What a painter - watch how he conceptualizes this is why we learn to draw!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.fosaw.com/home.htm See you tomorrow!

"Jeannie" Charcoal on mylar Thursday Classes will continue through the summer by popular demand. I will be teaching 4 painting classes at the Boca Raton Museum Art School Tuesdays all day 3.23 Painting Foundations / Beginning - Intermediate 9 - 12 am . 3.24 The Essence of Painting Intermediate - Advanced 12:30 - 3:30 pm. 3.16 Out of the Box: all Media painting Beginning - Advanced 6:30 - 9:30 pm. And Wednesdays 3.27 Discovering New Possibilities of Painting Beginning - Advanced 1 - 4 pm. My students know that I am committed to sending you from my class with the visual tools to work in any medium you wish. The elements and principles of design make drawings, painting and sculpture more engaging. My goal is to change the way you look at the world and art. Cool artists of the week I saw this work at Scope Asia last winter Hiroshi Senju works with pure pigment on paper some of these are flourescent. Not much in the way of hand drawn images but very cool indee...

Just a reminder.... Come join me for the opening! Artists Haven Gallery Opening  Saturday, July 11 7 - 9 pm. "HUSH" will be on exhibit Artists Haven Gallery  Owned by Michael and Elaine Joseph 2757 East Oakland Park Blvd. Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33306 Just east of federal Hwy. next to the Sunfish Grill www.artishavengallery.com See you there!

FEET! Finally, we will do a whole morning of feet. We will examine the basic shapes and anatomy. Feet are the grounding of the action from the hips Just a small suggestion - an impression of the heel  A little goes a long way. Footless figures are really apparitions - floating in space. The model, world traveler, Phil! Cool art for you this week. Daily painters web site Feet http://www.dailypainters.com/paintings/tag/feet Painter's feet around the world -fun! http://www.letscolourproject.com/blog/2010/05/painters-feet-around-the-world/ Duane Keiser He started the "Painting a day" phenomena He has 1000 tiny paintings Auctions them on ebay and sells quite well Very talented painter not just feet http://www.duanekeiser.com/ Just fun! http://www.ipaintfeet.com/ Jen Rowlands Shoes! http://www.famousfeetpaintings.co.uk/index.html I hope you had a fun 4th of July! See you thursday.

Trying to stop before I tighten up too much. Victoria in oil number 1