Principle Gallery Blog: News about the show, "The Expedition and Beyond"

Our show in Alexandria is coming up fast - it opens less than a week away, Friday, April 13th, 6:30 to 9:00. Please come by for the opening if you can! Here's what Principle Gallery says on their recent blog entry (scroll down to see my circular painting of Mia Bergeron featured in the post).  http://principlearttalk.com/2012/04/06/women-painting-women-the-expedition-beyond/


Mia in a White Turban, Oil, 20" tondo

"Pink Ranunculus" Oil, 12" x 9"

Great fun with this one. I have to admit, I had as much fun with those slimy green, wormy stems as I did with the blossoms.

It looks like I'm painting lots of still lifes, doesn't it? I usually have a few paintings going at the same time. Right now I have a portrait commission on one easel. I work in layers so I'm waiting for it to dry somewhat before I can continue. I also have an ongoing landscape on a second easel, which spreads out into several days, since the lighting effect only lasts for around 40 minutes each day, and some days I have to skip all together. Right after I finished these ranunculus, my roses in my  garden started to bloom, quite annoyingly all at the same time. I'm travelling from easel to easel, not that I'm complaining, mind you.

Paintings for "The Expedition" show

All three of these paintings are about to be packed up and shipped out soon to "The Expedition and Beyond" show at  Principle Gallery which opens April 13th. On top, left to right, Mia in a White Turban, China Frog and Red Peonies and bottom, Gardenias in an Indigo Vase. (See my previous couple of posts about the show.)

That chair holding up the painting shows up in a lot of my portraits. Don't worry, the painting on the chair is just there for this photo and I took it down so it's safe now. The structure on the right is a coat tree with dowels; I use it for holding my palettes so I don't leave them lying around.

Catalog now available for our April show at Principle Gallery

The catalog for our April group show, "The Expedition and Beyond" at Principle Gallery in Alexandria, VA is now available for $19.00 - you can order it here . The catalog is 58 pages and has on its cover Diane Feissel's beautiful painting of the beautiful artist Rachel Constantine.


Click here to order:    http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/328522

Workshop: "Painting Children from Life", March 3 - 5, 2012, Oro Valley AZ

I'm teaching a three-day workshop on painting children from life this weekend in Oro Valley, AZ at Toscana Studio and Gallery . How hard can it be to paint children from life? Answer: it's hard, and sometimes really hard. Sometimes you have a child set before you who seems to have just had three cups of coffee and a pillowcase full of Halloween candy. Many artists who do this plunk children down in front of televisions and DVDs for sittings, but they run the risk of encountering a child with a blank and zoned-out expression. I've taught this class before and had a lot of fun with it. There might still be a few spots left in the class, so if you can make it, I'd love to have you there (click on the link above for more information).

"The Expedition and Beyond" - Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA, opening April 13, 2012

I'll be in a group show at Principle Gallery with the group of women I painted with in South Carolina back in late 2010. The show is called "The Exhibition and Beyond" and my work is featured with work by Mia Bergeron, Rachel Constantine, Alia El-Bermani, Diane Feissel, Catherine Prescott, Cindy Procious, Shannon Runquist, Terry Strickland, Kate Stone, Stephani Tewes, Alexandra Tyng and Sadie Valeri (see the artist links to the right of my blog page). More about this show coming soon, but first, here's a slideshow preview (special thanks to the amazing Strickland family for producing this):

The Jade Sphinx: Learning to See With Artist Paul Foxton Part I

I'm sharing this interview with my artist friend Paul Foxton (there's a part 2 also). Paul thinks deeply about art and the process/product debate - anyone who earnestly desires to learn to draw and paint realistically should read everything he writes!

The Jade Sphinx: Learning to See With Artist Paul Foxton Part I: The Art of Paul Foxton You can learn how to draw better – that is the lesson of the blog Learning To See , written and illustrated by artis...