In January I took a series of workshops at the Scottsdale
Artists School. What a wonderful
facility and staff – a place dedicated to creating art. (I’m ready to move to Phoenix just to be near
it) Each of the four workshops was
wonderful. And no mater how diverse, all
the learning builds on itself. Four
incredibly talented artists held the workshops.
Nancy Seamons Crookston focused on understanding color
temperature and light. Qiang Huang
demonstrated how transparent paints make wonderful shadows and how to use them
along with opaque. His marketing talk
was the impetus for this blog and getting me off the dime! Charlie Hunter‘s workshop was playful
and innovative. He encouraged us to draw,
and use alternative methods of applying and removing paint (cloths, scraping,
q-tips, etc) and transparent almost monochromatic paints. Values and luminosity showed up on all our
pieces. And finally, for a change of
pace, Sandy Scott’s sculpting birds in flight was an intensive on bird
anatomy, a unique armature system and wonderful demos! Here is one piece from each workshop.
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