Academy
Would you like to take skill clinics and workshops with me?Academic Figure Workshops
& Skill Clinics
Here, find some up-close details of some of my paintings (and one drawing), and some discussion to augment the content of the American Artist article, January 2002 issue, on my portrait painting.
Painterly Techniques
American Artist
Magazine discusses a few
of my painting techniques
Every time I bring out my book of black and white chalk on blue paper academies by Prud'hon, I get excited, my students get excited, everybody gets excited. So I thought I would get you excited too:
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
An Investigation into the Technique of a Great 19th Century Draughtsman
Here's the first lesson that went up in the Academy:
Color Drawing - Head
My local art supply store gave me a fun project:
Recommend two eight-piece pastel sets -- one for portrait and one landscape. Then, explain why I picked those colors.
Design Two Small Pastel Sets
In this ever-expanding lesson, we will explore shade, light, reflection and other tone related influences on our perception of form.
Shade, Light & Form Modeling
I teach life drawing. Here is some of the information I cover on the first day of class.
Lesson I: Gesture - The Foundation of Figurative Art
Can't figure out how to get dramatic distance shifts in your paintings? Play with some of these ideas.
Spatial Relationships in Landscape Painting
