Art Class for a Company Retreat
Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA
Peggy and I taught two short (each 75 minutes) plein air landscape painting sessions to two groups of participants at a company team building retreat in the historic Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA. The class took place in the beautiful Love Temple / Italianate Garden. You can see the results in the two group photos above. […]
Turner “Varnishing Day” Tableau
de Young Museum, Aug. 14, 2015
More than any of his colleagues, perhaps, J.M.W. Turner hugely enjoyed and exploited varnishing days, reveling in the sociability, and in the opportunity to paint in a public forum. – Art on the Line: the Royal Academy Exhibitions in Somerset House 1780 – 1836 (editor David H Solkin). My Tableau Vivant performance of British artist […]
The Art of Drawing From Life
mDAC 2015
I share below photos and artworks from the iPad figure drawing class, The Art of Drawing From Life, I taught at the 2015 mDAC Summit, Palo Alto, August 9th, 2015. We had over 70 people participate from all levels of experience, some professional artists and some who had never drawn before. I introduced both the […]