Pochade Box

I am in love with trying to make one of these...

http://jamesgunterstudio.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-new-5-x-7-pochade-box.html

Replication and Education (or Why Copyism ROCKS)

Below are some recent studies I have done in the style of many different artists and movements...

Expressionist Technique - Deurain

Post ImpressionistTechnique - Van Gogh

Palette and Subject - Ver Meer

Subject Matter and Palette - Fairfield Porter

Just Palette - Giotto

While I will probably not be changing my own style drastically, consciously copying these masters in either style, subject matter or palette has really helped me become much more aware of the choices I make as an artist,  as well as appreciate their choices much more as well!

Funny Quote by Gertrude Stein

Love that is it a visual that drives home the humor...because of course it is!

Realism and Cubism Together or Apart

A great way to fully understand an art movement...

To have to paint the same subject matter realistically and then in that style.

It especially helped me to both both canvases at the same time.  I would take one object, paint it realistically then move to the other canvas and break and repaint it down cubist style.

I would know I was painting too long when I would accidentally mix up the canvases.  Not sure which one I prefer, but I can now tell you much more about cubism than I ever thought I would ver be able to.

Main take away, it is not as easy as it looks!

Cubistic and Realistic Still Life

A great study practice....my strategy is the paint the first object realistically, then use the leftover paint to paint the same object in a cubistic fashion on the other canvas...

Obviously these babies are still in progress...

Great Work from Winter 2017 Class!

What a fun time we had, painting, learning, solving all the world's problems...;)

These paintings certainly do not look like beginner level at all!

Fantastic work!

Click here it see the schedule for our next class!

Abstraction/Reality Part Deux!

So the art geek in me just cannot get enough of this looking waaaay up CLOSE to artwork and seeing the little abstractions in the BIG reality.  I blame (or thank) both Chuck Close with his gridded portraits of the 90s (zoom in close on one and see what I mean) as well as digital photography...

Yes it is such a geeky love of mine that I took about 1000 close ups photos of paintings in the louvre.  Just like these...

And yes sometime I spend my evenings just scrolling through them...

looking at them, I try to see the technique and palettes used, trying to guess what the artist was thinking and planning while creating their masterpiece ...