I will be doing a 2-hour Portrait Painting Demo this Sunday at Kidcasso Art Studio which is located on Albion Street in Wakefield, MA. There is a minimal $2 fee to cover studio costs.
The demo will be an underpainting done if burnt umber or burnt sienna. The main idea of this demonstration is to share my thought process as I paint my portraits. I will discuss how to sketch in the features, how to shapes instead of painting parts of the face, how to paint values and their importance, getting a likeness and how to paint individual parts of the face. I will also have a brief discussion on the Zorn palette and how you use it to simplify your painting.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Paul Beliveau Art Opening Exhibition
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| "Vanitas 11.12.15" (acrylic 48"x48") by Paul Beliveau I attending the opening exhibition of Paul Beliveau's new works this past Friday at the Arden Gallery on Newbury Street and although the artist wasn't present, which was highly disappointing, I was able to spend some uninterrupted time viewing the paitings up close. The gallery was pretty much empty due to the fact that the gallery mistakenly didn't include a date for the opening night exhibiton but it did work out in my favor because it was not crowded. This is a great gallery and one of my two favorite galleries on Newbury Street - the other being Newbury Fine Arts. If you're on Newbury Street please visit them and say hello and view some of their artist's works. Paul's exhibition runs until March 31st if you want to take it in. Their next exhibit is coming from April 3-28 is another favorite artists, Robert Jackson, who paints these whimsical paintings with performing balloon animals to apples flying airplanes. Opening reception and book signing for Robert Jackson is Friday, April 13th from 5-7pm. |
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Abbey Ryan's Online Painting Demo
Abbey paints in a "alla prima" or all-at-once style which is the process of painting a painting directly onto the canvas and usually in one sitting. Her painting style was handed down by her teacher, David Leffel at the Art Students League.
Abbey sometimes includes these magnificent bottles in her paintings that are equally beautiful, you can view on the Jury Smith Bottle Shop site: http://shop.jurysmith.com/
Joseph Lorusso & Peregrine Heathcote Opening Reception
I attended the Opening Reception for Joseph Lorusso and Peregrine Heathcote at Newbury Fine Arts and I was not disppointed. I had a chance to speak with both artists for well over a half hour each and both of them were very pleasant and also very forthcoming in giving advice and sharing their working techniques.
I spoke with Peregrine at the very beginning of the night and he was very nice. He has just arrived in from England the day before and I explained how to get to the Museum of Fine Arts and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museums and also supplied my advice on which paintings he had to see if he visited them. His son was also accompanying him and was very pleasant. For some reason the English accent is more impressive in person if that makes any sense and I have to admit I was amused when he made a referral to the television as the "tellie".
Peregrine was kind enough to share with me his working process and gave me some really strong encouragement to keep plugging away at my art and to never stop painting.
I waited patiently for Joseph Lurusso to finish talking with collectors. After all they pay the bills and I'm just a lowly admiring artist. When Joe seemed to be free I introduced myself and explained that I and expressed how much I love his painting style. He asked me my name and if I was collector (I hate when I have to explain that I'm not) and I explained that was not a collector but that I painted as well.
Joe immediately seem to warm up to me and asked me if there was any questions I had for him. I of course asked him about his working process and how achieves the warm and loose feelings to his paintings. He explained that most of his work is in the beginning stages; composing the painting and a great deal of time is in the creation of the underpainting. He then provided me his business card and explained that on his web page there is a time-lapsed slideshow of his painting process which I had already seen prior. He then explained that he then goes back after the underpainting is dried and then works mostly in thin glazes and layers them on top of each other and the sometimes he also paints opaquely as well. He walked me around to a few different paintings and explained how they were painted and his thought processes.
I like to think that both he and Peregrine enjoyed the fact that there's an artist at the reception and that they get a chance to talk to another artist instead of just collectors, but then again they also need to mingle with the collectors. When I go opening receptions, I always wait until the artist is free and also that there doesn't appear to be any collectors nearby waiting to speak with them. I never monopolize the artist and I'm always alert to fact that if there is a collector nearby that seems to be waiting that I step back and allow that networking to happen.
I didn't take photos with either artist unfortunately this time around because the gallery was still packed with collectors when I was getting ready to leave and I didn't want to be a strange, star-struck art geek so I opted to ditch the photo session but I'm positive both artists would have kindly obliged.
I spoke with Peregrine at the very beginning of the night and he was very nice. He has just arrived in from England the day before and I explained how to get to the Museum of Fine Arts and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museums and also supplied my advice on which paintings he had to see if he visited them. His son was also accompanying him and was very pleasant. For some reason the English accent is more impressive in person if that makes any sense and I have to admit I was amused when he made a referral to the television as the "tellie".
Peregrine was kind enough to share with me his working process and gave me some really strong encouragement to keep plugging away at my art and to never stop painting.
I waited patiently for Joseph Lurusso to finish talking with collectors. After all they pay the bills and I'm just a lowly admiring artist. When Joe seemed to be free I introduced myself and explained that I and expressed how much I love his painting style. He asked me my name and if I was collector (I hate when I have to explain that I'm not) and I explained that was not a collector but that I painted as well.
Joe immediately seem to warm up to me and asked me if there was any questions I had for him. I of course asked him about his working process and how achieves the warm and loose feelings to his paintings. He explained that most of his work is in the beginning stages; composing the painting and a great deal of time is in the creation of the underpainting. He then provided me his business card and explained that on his web page there is a time-lapsed slideshow of his painting process which I had already seen prior. He then explained that he then goes back after the underpainting is dried and then works mostly in thin glazes and layers them on top of each other and the sometimes he also paints opaquely as well. He walked me around to a few different paintings and explained how they were painted and his thought processes.
I like to think that both he and Peregrine enjoyed the fact that there's an artist at the reception and that they get a chance to talk to another artist instead of just collectors, but then again they also need to mingle with the collectors. When I go opening receptions, I always wait until the artist is free and also that there doesn't appear to be any collectors nearby waiting to speak with them. I never monopolize the artist and I'm always alert to fact that if there is a collector nearby that seems to be waiting that I step back and allow that networking to happen.
I didn't take photos with either artist unfortunately this time around because the gallery was still packed with collectors when I was getting ready to leave and I didn't want to be a strange, star-struck art geek so I opted to ditch the photo session but I'm positive both artists would have kindly obliged.
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