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Artist Demonstrations
Proudly sponsored by:
Friday, May 2nd, 2003
William Scott Jennings
$50.00
8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
William Scott Jennings has been a professional artist since 1973. He began his career in commercial art, working in Dallas, Nashville and Sacramento. Mr. Jennings' gallery exposure began in Dallas in 1976, and by 1978 he was showing his work in Santa Fe and Scottsdale. After residing in Taos, New Mexico for 15 years, Scott relocated to Sedona, Arizona in January 1996. His paintings are in corporate and private collections around the world, including the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC and the Ford Motor Company.
Jennings is a Master Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America (OPA) and a Signature Member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA). Feature articles about Jennings' work have appeared in American Artist Magazine, Art of the West Magazine, Southwest Art Magazine, Focus Magazine and Art Business News.
Notable collectors include Ford Motor Company, Christopher Forbes, William Shatner, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Congressman David Dreier and the Haggin Museum.
Romel De La Torre
$50.00
12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
A Chicago based artist, Romel de la Torre was born in the Philippines in a community of artists and as a young boy, he would go to their studios to watch them paint. In the late 70's Romel and his family moved to the United States where he began going to museums watching and learning on his own, works of famous artists like John Singer Sargent, J. Sorolla, Nicolai Fechin, the American Impressionist and several others. He attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago, where he studied years of life drawing and oil painting. After graduating with a Fine Arts concentration, Romel. De la Torre started painting with acclaimed artist Richard Schmid and a community of great artists at the Palette and Chisel Academy of Art in Chicago. A consummate artist in all media, Romel de la Torre is one of todayÕs most highly regarded young artists. His landscapes, figures, portraits, and still life paintings display unparalleled technical skill, fluid style and thorough understanding of light and form. Among his numerous awards including The Artist Magazine Portrait Artist of the Year and Oil Painters of America National Competition Best of Show.
Saturday, May 3rd, 2003
Clayton Beck III
$65.00
8:00 AM To 12:00 PM
[A Portrait of one of the Patrons sitting in the Audience who will walk away with a $4,000.00 Portrait]
Painting the Head in Oil
Here, the complex form of the human head is broken down into basic forms in order to understand it for the purpose of painting. A technique of painting the head in a single session will be taught.
Alla Prima Painting Techniques
This workshop is designed to give the painter a firm grasp of the thinking behind the techniques involved in painting from life and creating a finished piece in a single session.
The Color of Shadow
There has been no artist in the history of painting who has not struggled with the idea of shadows. What are they? How do I effectively represent them? This workshop will clarify these and other questions.
Transparent and Reflective Objects
What color is silver? Glass? Gold? Do I need special paints to paint these? A solid understanding of the complex nature of these mysterious objects is explained.
What is Color Temperature?
Do colors have inherent temperatures? Is orange warm and blue cool? No! Temperature is a relative thing and can only be understood in those terms. In other words it in the light source itself not the pigments with which we work. Learn to identify and paint these relationships.
What are Edges?
Sounds simple ... until we try to explain it. Edges are the most magical of all the elements of painting. They are what most identify one artist from another. They are effected by and effect the other elements such as color, values and drawing. Get a jump on this most mysterious point of painting.
How to Control Values
Values are how dark or light a shape appears to our eye in relation to those around that shape. In other words a value cannot be defined unless it is compared to another. A mastery of values is essential to getting all the other elements correct in a painting such as color, form and edge.
Robert Kuester
$50.00
12:00 PM To 3:00 PM
Robert Kuester was born in Red Oak, Iowa and although his artistic talent was prevalent at an early age, he spent most of his childhood and high school years playing the trumpet. At an early age he was more involved with music. It wasn't until college that Kuester developed a strong interest in art, eventually earning his BFA from the Art Center College of Design in California. After spending a required two years as an artist and trumpeter for the US Army Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany, he returned to the States and pursued what became a serious art career. br />
Kuester spent a short while in New York before travelling to Detroit, Michigan where he got the chance to illustrate and paint portraits for numerous national accounts such as CBS Fox and Double Day. In fact, his portrait of Millborne Stone is now part of the permanent Collection of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, OK. These achievements re-routed Kuester's energy, sparking a new interest in fine art and the western influence. Kuester's does not confine himself to one subject matter, his versatility is seen in his still lifes as well as his portraits.
Sunday, May 4th, 2003
Joyce Pike
$50.00
9:00 AM To 12:00 PM
Joyce Pike is a sixth generation native Californian who is listed in just about every major art publication and directory. After teaching throughout the world, she is listed in Who's Who in American Art; World's Who's Who of Women; the National Biographic Society, and is a signature member of the Oil Painters of America. and the Women Artists of the American West.
After studying with Sergei Bongart, Hal Reed and Viona Ann Kendall, she taught at Los Angeles Valley College for seventeen years, and has given workshops in Europe, Mexico and throughout the United States. She has three books in print, "Painting Floral Still Life"; "Oil Painting-A Direct Approach", and "Painting Flowers" which has also been printed in China and France. They are all published by North Light Books. She has also made some 45 one-hour video tapes on painting by Art Video Productions. She has been featured in Art of the West magazine, International Artist Magazine, The Artist Magazine and Fine Arts Collector.
Her major awards include the American Artist Grand National Award for Floral Art. She has had numerous shows of her own in galleries in Palm Springs, Scottsdale, Laguna Beach, Beverly Hills, Carmel, and New York She resides along the Central Coast of California which is one of her principal sources of subject matter for her combinations of realism and impressionism.
$50.00
Kurt Anderson
12:00 PM To 3:00 PM
“When I paint a still life, I want it to be anything but still. I want it to shimmer with light. I want it to rustle with movement. I want it to feel almost palpable.”
Known mainly for his floral still life and floral figurative paintings, Kurt Anderson has been a long student of both classical and impressionistic painting techniques. Trained in the Boston School tradition, he is part of master/pupil lineage that can be traced back to 19th century masters such as Jacques Louis David. His writing and artwork have been widely published. His articles appear regularly in The Artist's Magazine and he is author of Realistic Oil Painting Techniques (North Light Books, 1995).
Anderson began his career mainly as a painter of official portraits depicting corporate CEO’s and university presidents. In recent years his emphasis has changed to florals which he sells in galleries across the country. He is especially attracted to flowers as a subject because they allow the richest expression of color and the liveliest use of brushwork. “Achieving vibrant color is the most important element in my work,” Anderson says. He also likes dynamic alla prima (literally "all at once") brushwork, which provides a look of spontaneity. “I want the viewer to see the process of painting in the finished work itself.”
$10.00
Zhiwei Tu Slide Presentation
5:00 PM To 7:00 PM
Mr. Tu was born in Northern Guangdong Province of China in 1951, the son of peasant parents. As a young artist he received considerable regional fame from his artistic exposure, soon other artists, teachers and museums directors traveled from great distances to see his work and watch him paint. In 1972 Tu was invited to study at China's famous Guangzhou Institute of Fine Arts. After many hard-working years, Tu's paintings were welcomes with open arms by the public. He became a member of Guangdong Artists Association and of Guangdong Oil Painters Association. In 1981 Tu was promoted to professorship of fine arts at Guangzhou Institute. "
Tu's work is uniquely his own. He finds a special way, which belongs only to him. He flies freely with full wings in the blue sky of art. Tu's paintings are simple in character. No cleverness, fashionable tricks, nor superficiality appear in his work, he has opened up a special feeling in art which belongs only to him" In 1987 Tu came to the United States to enter Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, to further his education and career. He had applied to four other universities and had been offered three-year scholarships at each. He has won numerous National and International awards including the coveted prize of the Oil Painters of America Best of Show.
Mr. Tu's own words " I have been given a gift by some power, and I am deeply thankful for it. With this gift I am able to put on canvas my passion and vision, to create these paintings. When very young, I used to look at my hands in wonderment and try to understand how beauty could come forth from them. I still have that feeling today every time I put a brush to a canvas. Sharing his life are his wife Danni and son Danlang, both of whom joined him in America in July 1988.
Saturday May 10th, 2003
Taos Gilders
$50.00
9:00 AM To 12:00 PM
Saturday, May 17th, 2003
Don Ward
$50.00
9:00 AM To 12:00 PM
Don Ward was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1947. He graduated with an Honors B.F.A. degree from the Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, California, in 1973. Until 1985, Don worked as a freelance illustrator and in the field of Outdoor Pictorial Advertising. He then moved to Taos, New Mexico, to pursue a career in fine art. Since 1987, he has been conducting the Taos Sketch Group, artists that meet three times a week to draw and paint from live models. In addition, he has been teaching oil painting classes twice a week. He has been invited to participate in the "Taos Impressionists" show and was represented in the "Taos Invites Taos" exhibitions from 1991 to 1996.
"My early influences were the Old Masters, such as Velazquez, Titian and Tintoretto. Then, after I'd painted a few years, the color and brushwork of the Impressionists became important to my work." Russian painter Nicolai Fechin also heavily inspired Ward. In the early 1970's, a group formed in Taos that shared a passion for painting plein-aired landscapes, thus becoming known as the "Taos Six". On the advice of artist Ray Vinella, a member of the "Taos Six", Ward developed his painting and drawing skills at the Art Center in Los Angeles under Lorser Feitelsen.
Don Ward is a quintessential Taos artist. His landscapes, still life's, and figure paintings render a dignity of person, place and thing, recording a deep attachment to life in the Southwest. His "living" color and virtuosity in drafting link him to such Taos Masters as Walter Ufer, Kenneth Adams and Victor Higgins.
"I like to think of my work not so much as pictures of places or things, but records of having been there. And I try to make my paintings give the viewer a sense of that experience".
Friday, May 24th, 2003
John Farnsworth
2:00 PM To 4:00 PM
Farnsworth gallery taos will be hosting a painting demonstration May 24 from 2 to 4 pm in the gallery. John will be demonstrating and discussing his equine series in oil. 133 Paseo del pueblo norte, 758-0776.
Contact Person: Richard Allan Nichols (505) 758-2475