Elizabeth Reed - Trouvaille (Something lovely found by chance)

"Moonfairy" Marcia @ CSMART Hour sketch Come join us Thursday evenings 6:30 - 8:30 Open studio ~ no instruction "You are about to die. There are two paintings on the wall, A Rembrandt and a Mondrian. which is the one you wish to see last? Live, love, and make art like that moment; as if you were about to die."~ Odd Nerdrum American Artist Magazine's October edition features an article about Odd Nerdrum. The article discusses Nerdrum's work as philosophical allegories. Always intriguing work with spiritual undertones. Reminiscent of Rembrandt. Nerdrum uses only four colors but he premixes the palette and tubes the colors he uses in his paintings. Curiously, he mixes blue from mars black and titanium white. Check out this magazine - October American Artist.  The Nerdrum Institute Beginning Drawing Class ~ Perspective and the Fifth perspective by Rudolf Stussi Very cool stuff. Rudolf Stussi Thursday Life Drawing ~ Legs! F...

Wednesday morning drawing - Anatomy of a shadow Thursday life drawing - The pelvis Friday painting - color as value See you there! Cool Artists of the week: AnneMarie Busschers Pencil, etc. on cotton UNBELIEVABLE Drawings/paintings Pakayla Biehn INCREDIBLE double exposure paintings! LOVE! Nick Patten Incredible interiors, oils Great sense of space and light Juan Bautista Nieto Oh so beautiful and interesting figurative acrylic! paintings Edouard Martinet I am a sucker for this stuff. Found object sculpture

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

Cradle 2 from the "Gifts from the sea" Series Boca Raton Museum of Art - The Art School  classes start next week! Intermediate - Advanced drawing on Wednesday afternoons  and Figure drawing on Thursday afternoons  Both classes are very small.  Take advantage of the before season swarm and sign up soon! Small classes give you more of my time. Cool Artists of the week: April Surgent Very interesting glass engraver. Look for the videos of her working. Kenneth Procter Interesting images made with powdered charcoal. He mixes his own fixative. Great article in Drawing magazine. Christian Schad Magic Realist Kelly Reemsten Serge Strossberg Incredible paintings and drawings Check out his travel journals.