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Painting Workshop in the Anza-Borrego Desert

• March 23, 2013 • 2 Comments

Posted in Classes, Lectures, Locations, Painting trips, Workshops
Tags: Anza-Borrego, artist umbrella, Borrego Springs, California, Coachwhip Canyon, color, desert, Eric Merrell, landscape painting, painting, painting workshops, Pena Springs, plein air, plein air workshops

Painting Workshops

• February 3, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Things You Should Know About, Workshops
Tags: art instruction, color, landscape painting, Pasadena area, San Gabriel Valley

Color for Painters: A Guide to Traditions and Practice

• January 17, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in Books, Ideas on painting
Tags: Al Gury, art history, claude monet, color, Color for Painters, descriptive color, landscape painting, light, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

There Is No Gray in Nature

• December 2, 2010 • 16 Comments

Posted in Ideas on painting
Tags: Aldo Leopold, art ideas, beautiful color, claude monet, color, daniel pinkham, descriptive color, Eugene Delacroix, henry hensche, joaquin sorolla, light, Oscar Wilde, Sergei Bongart

Upcoming Workshops and Paint-Outs

• September 30, 2009 • 4 Comments

Posted in Classes, Locations, Workshops
Tags: color, Henry Van Wolf, LAAFA, landscape painting, Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, on location, plein air paint-out, plein air workshop, Topanga Canyon State Park, Valley Artists Guild

Paintings from Joshua Tree

• September 2, 2009 • 13 Comments

Posted in Artwork, Locations, Painting trips
Tags: California, color, descriptive color, Joshua Tree, Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, Joshua Tree National Park, landscape, landscape painting, light, nocturne, on location, plein air, plein air painting, summer

Ending on a High Note in the Desert

• August 26, 2009 • 10 Comments

Posted in Artwork, Ideas on painting, Locations, Painting trips
Tags: American Free Journal, bats, color, descriptive color, desert, full moonlight, Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, Joshua Tree National Park, joshua trees, landscape, landscape painting, Mount San Jacinto, plein air, plein air painting, Southern Desert Horned Lizard, wind

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

• March 22, 2009 • 4 Comments

Posted in Books, Ideas on painting
Tags: color, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Hawthorne on Painting, John F. Carlson, Kandinsky, music, The Art Spirit, vibration

Nature is Noisy If We Could Only Hear It

• March 1, 2009 • 7 Comments

Posted in Artwork, Exhibitions, Ideas on painting
Tags: abstract design, California, California Art Club, color, Malibu, Mulholland

East Coast Ideals/West Coast Concepts*

• February 18, 2009 • 14 Comments

Posted in Artwork, Exhibitions, Painting trips
Tags: Addison Art Gallery, Boston, California, California Art Club, Cape Cod, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Charles Webster Hawthorne, Colin Page, color, Ernesto Nemesio, Frank Gardner, Glenn Dean, henry hensche, Jeff Bonasia, Jeremy Lipking, Jerome Greene, landscape painting, Logan Hagege, Orleans, P-Town, Pasadena, Paul Schulenberg, Peter Kalil, Pharr Schulenberg, plein air painting, Provincetown, Vose Galleries

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