Color Studies!

This week we will be doing color studies, making 4 small paintings of the same thing on 4 different colors. This is a great way to experience directly how the color of the support affects everything about the piece.  Each

Happy New Year!

Congratulations, Eve Smerczynski whose artwork will be on display at the Kingston Public Library for the month of January. Please join us for the opening reception on January 5th from 2-4:00 at Kingston Public Library, 6 Green St, Kingston, MA. A painting is

Here comes Santa Claus!

Lots of great winter animals and birds last week, and now here comes Santa! This week we’ll be doing upside down Santa based on life paintings by and similar to Mike Beeman, one of my favorite contemporary painters. Upside-down painting is a wonderful

Ho Ho Snow!

We’re going gung-ho into the holidays. Last week we did snow. This week snowy animals and birds for cards, and the next weeks up to the holiday, Santa and gifts. I’ll try to get the cards done with at least

Holidays ho!

I hope everyone had a pleasant turkey day. It was a thrill to make the feast in my new kitchen. The silestone countertop is the best pie crust-rolling surface I’ve ever used – cool and slick! Now that we’ve done

How ’bout them apples?

Excellent apples last week, and just in time for Thanksgiving. There will be only one class this week, and it’ll be TURKEYS!  Students from Wednesday and Thursday classes are welcome to join this class if there’s room – which there

The Berries!

Awesome cranberry bogs last week. Coming into the holiday season, we will take full advantage of the natural beauty and bounty of our local environment. We are so lucky to live in the land of cranberries and apples. That said, this

BOO!

The Great Halloween Candy Challenge was a big, tasty challenge for the students where they learned to create the essence of things, relationships of objects, and creating volume and depth. This week it’ll be scary stuff like bats and witches

Enticing Artists

Last week we rounded out the introduction to figure drawing, and I posed for the kids. Drawing figures is a skill that gets better and better with practice noticing things like proportions, negative space, and relationships. This week is the

Bones Jones

Bone Jones emerges from the cellar once a year to kick off the Halloween season while offering a lesson that is the foundation of figure drawing. This week, I’ll be posing to give the kids a taste of real live figure