Give Art and art classes as gifts for the holidays

 

These online classes are a gift that keeps on giving. Once downloaded, they can be watched over and over.

Think about gifting online classes in either advanced encaustic techniques:

 https://vimeo.com/ondemand/4167

And/ or Drawing and Painting Faces for beginner and intermediate artists. Easy step by step classes :https://vimeo.com/ondemand/21068

Also I have sale paintings on my blog and would make wonderful gifts

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Last night's salon

This slide is the first abstract painting I made in art school in 1953

My friend,  fellow artist, and retired gallerista, Joaquin Piñeiro hosted his first monthly salon and I was the guest speaker. I talked about my 60 year journey as an artist  accompanied by a slide presentation. It was certainly a trip down memory lane for me, and hopefully the audience gained an insight to an artist life and motivation.

Joaquin opens his studio for these events and has lined up a fascinating group of presenters.
San Miguel has countless fascinating people artists writers musicians and story tellers. These salons will allow the public to meet some of these creative people free of charge. The space is limited, so reservations are a must.

Classical art training

I have been asked to give a talk and presentation on my artistic journey of 60 years. I have prepared a slide show starting with my first abstract painting that I made in school in 1952 or 1953.

I am also going to show a drawing of a pot that I made the first semester of art school. We were not allowed to use color of the first semester. We worked in pencil or charcoal until we could create an almost photographic likeness of mundane objects. It was wonderful training in learning to really see. The final for the anatomy class was to correctly draw the skeleton without a model. The second semester we had to know and be able to draw the muscles over the bones.

old pencil drawing. That was when I had a different name. note the grade!

.This kind of classical training prepared me to understand the human body, a crumpled paper bag, and even a ear of corn. I challenged myself with choosing to draw the corn, one kernel at a time.