Fall Art Classes 2016

Lots of fun art learning opportunities coming up. I will be teaching 4 classes at The Atelier in Minneapolis, and a Wednesday evening class at The Art Academy, LLC. in St. Paul. There will also be a special lunch presentation at The Atelier. Read on. At The Atelier The...

Bear Cliffs

Come celebrate art and the completion of a painting! My latest oil painting, Bear Cliffs, will be on display this weekend during Art-A-Whirl. Many of my fantasy pieces will be displayed, as well as some portraits, and still life. I’ll have originals, prints, note cards, and studies for sale....

Painting Values

This experiment isn’t my idea. It’s based off something Jeff Larson does during his still life painting workshop at The Atelier. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while. I watched him do something similar during the workshop demo but wasn’t able to take the hands on portion...

New Original Painting: Sea Daydream

This piece went through a LOT of changes from the initial concept. Maybe I’ll post some of the process for this one at some point. We’ll see. She’s an original painted with oils on linen canvas mounted to board, and framed. She’ll be with me on display at Gen...

Portrait Practice – Color Experiments

Colors used for this head study Perylene Black (Winsor & Newton) Yellow Ochre (Winsor & Newton) Permanent Yellow Light (Rembrandt) Permanent Red Medium (Rembrandt) Permanent Magenta (Winsor & Newton) Permanent Alizarin Crimson (Winsor & Newton) Untramarine Blue (Utrecht) The white was either Utrecht White, or Flemish White by Utrecht....

Oil Painting Demo – Toy Dragon

Today I did an oil painting demo at a local art supply store. You locals probably know I’m a part-time employee there but today I wasn’t. Today I was the “visiting artist”. The manager asked me to “just do your thing”. So I did and I had some fun...

Head Study in Oil – Trying Out Colors

In an effort to see for myself what different colors and paints do and decide what I like, I’ve been experimenting. For this head study I tried Rembrandt Sepia, Gamblin Flake White Replacement, and Gamblin Chromatic Black. This combination also gave me a chance to concentrate on values (more...

Portrait Study – Paint

Last week I posted about how I transfer a drawing to canvas. This week, paint! I’m using oils and decided to use a limited palette. Initially I was going to use Ivory Black for the cools but the flesh was looking dead so I added French Ultramarine Blue. Basically...

Posthumous Portrait

As a present for my husband, I painted a posthumous portrait of his mother. Kinda tricky. I had to work from photos, and my memories and impressions of her. Step 1 Transfer the photo reference as a line drawing/tracing to the canvas and start painting. I thought this would...