AMERICAN artist WINTER 2009 Workshop FOR OIL and ACRYLIC PAINTERS focuses on the fundamentals of landscape painting. Workshop leader Ben Fenske teaches fundamental concepts and skills that can help landscape painters make progress. Artist elizabeth torak teaches how to Make Emotional connections with your subjects.
AMERICAN artist WINTER 2009 Workshop FOR OIL and ACRYLIC PAINTERS focuses on the fundamentals of landscape painting. Workshop leader Ben Fenske teaches fundamental concepts and skills that can help landscape painters make progress. Artist elizabeth torak teaches how to Make Emotional connections with your subjects.
AMERICAN artist WINTER 2009 Workshop FOR OIL and ACRYLIC PAINTERS focuses on the fundamentals of landscape painting. Workshop leader Ben Fenske teaches fundamental concepts and skills that can help landscape painters make progress. Artist elizabeth torak teaches how to Make Emotional connections with your subjects.
BY M. STEPHEN DOHERTY During visits back to the United States from his home in Italy, Ben Fenske teaches fundamental concepts and skills that can help landscape painters make progress.
20 Junn Roca: Directing the Painting Process Through
Artistic License BY MOLLY SIPLE During a recent California landscape workshop, Junn Roca gave his students the freedom they needed to make design, value, and color decisions that flowed from their own artistic instincts rather than strict formulas.
38 Curt Walters: Prepare to Paint a Complicated Subject
BY M. STEPHEN DOHERTY Arizona artist Curt Walters, one of the best-known painters of the Grand Canyon, conducted a special workshop along the South Rim that challenged even the most experienced painters. “The canyon is so complicated in terms of the shapes, atmosphere, light, and colors that one has to be well-organized and disciplined,” Walters told the participants.
50 John Cogan: Finding Your Own Way in Acrylics
BY BOB BAHR This New Mexico painter has found novel ways to accomplish his goals, including the use of the recently introduced, slower-drying acrylic paints.
62 Graydon Parrish: A Rational Approach to Color Hue,
Chroma, and Value BY M. STEPHEN DOHERTY During an intense three-week workshop in New York City, Graydon Parrish took students through a series of exercises to help them understand and apply the 20 Munsell color system. COVER 72 Donald Demers: An Evolving Approach to Curt Walters painting Teaching Landscape Painting the Grand Canyon BY LORI WOODWARD (photo reversed). For years students have been lining up to get into 84 landscape painter Donald Demers’ workshops, and those who are regular students of the instructor know that as Demers evolves and advances as a painter, so does his instruction.
84 Elizabeth Torak: How to Make Emotional
Connections With Your Subjects BY M. STEPHEN DOHERTY During a workshop on painting still lifes and landscapes, this Vermont artist emphasized that artists’ emotional responses to gestures, movements, and designs are far more significant than their ability to record the exact physical appearance of their subjects.
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