Nature is one of the best places from which to gather reference. I’ve been working on a piece that is set during twilight. Using my memory, I made several attempts at a twilight color and value scheme in color studies but the look and feel just wasn’t coming across....
Jul52017
Plein Air at Twilight
May312017
Saturday Full of Art
This coming Saturday is full of art! The MN Landscape Arboretum will be hosting a show of works from The Atelier titled “Breathing Classical Life into Today’s Art: Works from the Atelier Studio Program of Fine Art in Minneapolis”. Reception: Saturday, June 3 1:00-4:00 pm There is a fee...
May172017
Artists for The Atelier 2017
Attend Our Atelier Instructor Art Show and Fundraising Sale 2017 Friday, May 19, 2:00-9:00pm Saturday, May 20, 12:00-8:00pm Sunday, May 21, 12:00-5:00pm (This is also the weekend of the 2017 Full Time Student Show). Enjoy and purchase prints, drawings, watercolors, oils, and sculptures of figurative, still life, landscape, and...
Apr142017
Foundlings: Strengthening Artistic Intuition
In my efforts to loosen up and trust my imagination more, I decided I need to strengthen my creative intuition, trusting my gut and follow where my imagination takes me instead of putting on the brakes too soon and following the “rules”. I think it’s important for me to...
Mar132017
Art Display – Lodestone Coffee and Games
Gaming + Coffee + Art! Starting this week some of my art will be on display at Lodestone Coffee and Games in Minnetonka, MN. Currently NEW large versions of the four elementals are available for viewing and purchase. For this new limited edition print run of the elementals, I’ve...
Feb42017
New Art on Dura-Lar Part 2
Drawing on the polyester film was like running my hands across a length of satin fabric. This was the first time I’ve used it. For the most part I was able to build up fairly rich values, and erase back to a pretty clean surface. However I did manage...
Jan272017
New Art on Dura-Lar
For my most recent project I’ve been drawing on Dura-Lar. It was suggested by another artist who has had excellent results with the stuff. I’m using the .005 matte film. Like with the vellum I used for previous projects, I drew my lines on one side and am building...
Jan122017
Lesson Plans – Organizing Thoughts
I run a color theory class at The Atelier. I’ve been wanting to create a Color 2 class for a while so I created some lessons and took myself though them to see if the takeaway for each one met my expectations of if I needed to make adjustments....
Dec292016
DIY Sculpture Stand
I want to sculpt more but I didn’t really have a good spot to do it. Based on the sculpture stands I’ve seen I created my own. I wanted something with adjustable height, fairly lightweight, easy to move, stable, and something I could make myself. I can’t weld but...
Dec142016
Water Elemental Reference
I couldn’t find reference for the low angle view of the coral and other underwater objects. Flexible thinking was required. I asked myself, what else do I have access to that would have an approximate shape and structure of the things I wanted to draw? Oyster mushrooms! I lit...