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"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad," Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali what gesture!!! Value drawings.  The old masters called the use of value to show form, "Chiaorscuro." Usually low key compositions with intense lighting. (pretty hard to pull off with candles!) Rembrandt Self portrait in a window Kathe Kollwitz Picasso Self Portrait Georges Seurat Georges Seurat Gesture and the use of line as a scaffold Emanuela de Musis at the Academy of Realist Art This gorgeous work is done in the classical method. To my life drawing students, see how they build the "scaffolding." This method of teaching involves one year of intensive drawing from casts. Look how emotional these paintings and drawings have become by not "reporting" all of the facts. They are creating an illusion of reality, not reporting all of the details. Jake Muirhead, Printmaker Most drawing enthusiasts love to make prints, especially etchings or Intaglio. Jake Muirhead's prints ar...

"If someone says, "can't," that shows you what to do" John Cage

Peggy Probably the hardest part of making art is to show your soul.  It has been said that the first 20 seconds of a drawing or painting set the mood for the next 20 hours. Gesture is everything. It is not so much how long a piece might take but when you made it.  Last weekend I went to Art Wynwood and saw  a lot of very marketable  artwork. After leaving, my friend, Susan Megur asked me what piece stuck in my mind. I could not answer that question. What a shame.  Make your art like it is part of your soul. Find what it is about something that you make that moves you. Make it about emotion, politics, color or just plain beauty. Anything that makes you and your viewer move from their comfort zone of visual boredom .  Cool artists of the week: Sybelle Peretti works with transparent glass images. Stops me in my tracks! Lalla Essaydi Anne Marie Busschers from Art Wynwood last weekend Charles Pfahl Susan grossman New sessio...

"And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings." Meister Johann Eckhart

Earth Vessel 36 x 48" Acrylic, graphite, metal point and metallic pigment on aluminum I took my collection of larger "Gifts from the Sea" to the Home Show in Miami this weekend. Lots of interest and mailing list entries but no sales. It was a nice experiment of unusual work for me. Fun to make pieces that are finished relatively quickly with the feel of my more involved work. Classes start next week at the Boca Museum School. I am down to only thursdays. Sign up soon! Life drawing in my Studio Blueye. Tuesday 9:30 -12:30. Valentina is our model.  Cool Artists of the week Henry Yan - great loose style John Sanchez - Just won the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for 2012. Fantastic painter! Steve Irvine - Moth trails at night Daniel Ochoa - layered wonderful portraits Miriam Castillo - Very cool feminist illustrator/artist Mini Gifts for my Highland Beach Library exhibition in November

The Blog is Back!

The Boca Raton Museum of Art - the Art School Thursdays 9 - 12 am  From Drawing to Painting Thursdays 12:30 - 3:30 Life Drawing!  I hold open studio life drawing and painting in my Studio Blueye Wednesdays. Now open for drawing lessons. Call or email me if you are interested. Very cool artists of the week Flying Blind! De Kooning's closed eye drawings - WOW! Daniel Sprick - I want that chicken skeleton! Antonio Lopez Garcia Antonio Lopez Garcia 5 day workshop at The Florence Academy of Art Richard T. Scott The influence of Odd Nerdrum and his New York Academy training are quite evident. Oh - for another lifetime! Check out my friend, Lester Salazar. He is making a drawing a day blog. Lester is a fixture in weekly life drawing.  Go Lester! I challenge us all to do this!
Cone of Chaos Graphite on Museum Board 40 x 60"

COLOR, FORM AND SUBSTANCE

Please join Bonnie, Jane and Me at the opening of our collaboration Color, Form and Substance Sunrise Civic Center 10610 W. Oakland Park Blvd. Sunrise, FL 33361 954-747-4641 Gallery hours Closed Monday and Sunday Tuesday, Friday and Saturday 10 - 5 Wednesday and Thursday 12 - 7 Admission: Free Good things come in threes!