Painting interior scenes - just like painting landscapes or anything else - is about creating the illusion of space and that involves using the techniques of perspective, value and color. Painting interiors is a great opportunity to hone those skills and at the same time to create paintings that are unique and appealing. Here's the […]
Looking through our windows - whether they're the windows in our homes, studios or cars or whether we're looking into them or out of them - is one of the ways we see the world around us. Let's express that in paint! Painting scenes through our windows - just like painting landscapes or anything else […]
Let's start the New Year off by studying from the masters! Doing master studies is an age-old method for learning how to improve our paintings. By emulating the masters we can understand their choices and techniques and apply the lessons learned in our own work. We'll focus generally on composition, value and color, though each […]
Dear Painters, What's your favorite food? I've got many, but one is definitely peanut butter & jelly sandwiches. I think that's what I'll paint (again) in this next workshop. Let's set up our favorite food(s) on our tables at home, put a spot light on them and paint them from life in this workshop. Think Wayne […]
Dear Painters, Everywhere flowers are in bloom. Let's put a few on our tables and paint them from life in this workshop on Zoom. Many of you have told me that you'd love to paint flowers but find it challenging. Let's break down the process for painting them into bite sized steps to end up […]
It's summer...let's get out and paint and enjoy a day studying value and color in plein air. I'll start this class doing a short value sketch demonstration on paper, in order to establish a value design in my scene. Each of you will do the same and we'll have a value "roadmap" for our paintings. […]
Figures in the landscape (or in the cityscape) help enliven scenes in paintings and make them more interesting. Let's focus on that in this next Zoom workshop. The Figure in the Landscape (or Cityscape) Thursday July 22nd and Friday, July 23rd, 2021 9:00 to 1:00 (Pacific Time) both days On Zoom from the comfort of your own […]
Dear Painters, I'm trying something new, as we (hopefully) move out of the pandemic, at least in the Bay Area: A still life workshop that will be both in person in my studio and on Zoom. Up to 5 vaccinated people can sign up to be in-person in my studio at Hunters Point Shipyard, SF […]
It's still summer...let's get out and paint and enjoy a day studying value and color in plein air. I'll start this class doing a short value sketch demonstration on paper, in order to establish a value design in my scene. Each of you will do the same and we'll have a value "roadmap" for our […]
The best weather is here now...let's get out and paint and enjoy a day studying value and color in plein air. I'll start this class doing a short value sketch demonstration on paper, in order to establish a value design in my scene. Each of you will do the same and we'll have a value […]