Come visit me in my studio the first weekend of December: Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Over 40 artists work will be on display along with many art studios--See, Experience and Procure Art of all kinds!
Saturday, December 5th: 5:30-9:30 PM with special stage performances from 9-9:30 PM
Sunday, December 6th: 1 PM - 4 PM
Location: 4408 Delridge Way SW, Seattle WA 98106 in West Seattle, just off the West Seattle Bridge.
"Painting from nature is
not copying the object, it is realizing one's sensation." Paul Cezanne
A selection of the drawings I made last night in my Life Drawing session. This quote from Cezanne comes to mind...drawing as a constant search to further realize how things are--without reservation, hesitation, or conscious thought of anything but the pursuit.
These are all 24x36" and larger. Mixed Media: chalk, watercolor, soft pastel, charcoal--one or more of these. Click on images for larger versions. Contact me for purchase inquiries. Thanks for visiting!
To register for any class please email me. (Click on images for larger versions.)
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September 12 & 13: Sat/Sun, 10 AM – 5 PM, includes a one hour lunch break
DYNAMIC FIGURE DRAWING: Gesture and Sustained Gesture Drawing
Class Fee: $225 / Held at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in West Seattle
Draw the figure with great expression, bold marks, exciting textures, and dynamic energy. This weekend workshop steps you through an approach to drawing from the live model that aims to capture movement, vitality, and structure of the Form. The short length of Gesture poses and speed of our mark-making expands our use of line to tell more with less, to make each mark meaningful, and explore many different types of marks. Issues of gravity, tension, weight, volume, and light will be investigated in both quick Gesture drawings and longer sustained poses as well. We will draw in charcoal and ink wash. All levels welcomed.
October 10 & 11: Sat/Sun, 10 AM – 5 PM, includes a one hour lunch break
MIXED MEDIA FIGURE DRAWING: Texture, Color, Mark-Making
Class Fee: $225/ Held at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in West Seattle
Pull out all the stops in this Expressive Figure Drawing workshop. Using a multitude of media (including pastel, charcoal, colored ink wash, and collage) we will compose energetic figure drawings that utilize bold Textures, vivid Color, and sensitized Marks (Line). We will make extended studies allowing time to layer materials and create a visual balance. Some quick gesture studies will be made as well to explore ways of making marks that best express how the figure exists in space. Overall, this workshop is about Compositional Balance. Some previous drawing experience is recommended.
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November 7 & 8: Sat/Sun, 10 AM – 5 PM, includes a one hour lunch break
QUICK FIGURE PAINTING: Color and Composition
Class Fee: $225/ Held at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in West Seattle
This workshop offers a weekend of alla prima (all at once) painting from the live model. We will use the Direct Painting approach with limited palettes and dynamic brush work. Our focus will be on various modes of paint application, ways to harmonize expressive color, and design a balanced composition of shapes that inspire and engage the viewer. Each day we will make two paintings. You may use either oil or acrylic paint. All Levels Welcomed.
Oct 6th - Nov 17th, Tuesdays: 1-4 PM (7 weeks), Class Fee: $195
SKETCHBOOK DRAWING at Woodland Park Zoo & Volunteer Park Conservatory
For seven consecutive Tuesdays we meet at either Woodland Park Zoo or Volunteer Park’s Conservatory to draw in sketchbooks. Working from both animals and plants is a wonderful way to study Form, Movement, Texture, and Composition of shapes, while expanding our mark-making skills. Our “models” at the zoo come in an array of different sizes and shapes keeping us challenged and entertained at the same time. The plants at the Conservatory offer a variety of flora, from delicate orchids to bristly cacti that are equally fascinating subjects. We will draw in sketchbooks with conté crayon and some ink wash. All levels welcomed.
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I am also teaching two weeknight classes at GAGE ACADEMY on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Expressive Figure Painting, Wednesdays 6:30-9:30 PM; Expressive Figure Drawing, Thursdays 6:30-9:30 PM. Go to www.gageacademy.org for further information.
If you're in Seattle this week, WEDNESDAY NIGHT (July 22) go see this by my dear and immensely talented friend, Lucia:
Lucia Neare's Theatrical Wonders presents
Lullaby Moon X
Enter a world of wonder in Lullaby Moon X on Wednesday, July 22. Twilight revels begin at 8:15 pm along the Lake Washington Ship Canal, with a performance vignette occurring around 8:15 pm at Kite Hill, Gas Works Park. Please bring a picnic and enjoy the evening with us. Those with early bedtimes are welcome to attend any part of the performance.
Lullaby Moon X is envisioned and created by
Lucia Neare, with choreography by Karn Junkinsmith, Guy Caridi. Olivier Wevers,
and Jenna Bean Veatch, music direction by Toby Hanson, and technical direction
by David Verkade.
Lullaby Moon is a year-long invitation to Seattle to explore a world of dream. A celebration of the night sky, the series of performance events brings bedtime whimsy and wonder to parks and other public spaces throughout the city, enlivening and enlightening the dark time of each month. Performances take place on each new moon for an entire lunar year beginning in October 2008. Lullaby Moon is supported by 4Culture's Site Specific Performance Network, the Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Seattle Parks and Recreation, and the generosity of private donors.
For more information, please visit lucianeare.org.
Time flies...it was just over a month ago already when I was painting with my pals at La Push, WA. We rented a cabin on the beach and painted to our hearts content. What a beautiful place, so easy to access and set up an easel to paint. Looking forward to going back for more. Here are a few of the paintings I made--including a self portrait painted from looking in a mirror with the landscape reflected behind me. I've wanted to do that for years--I have no idea what took me so long to do it. They'll be more of these in the future--a curious and challenging thing to do. Love it.
Most of these paintings are rather small panel oil paintings--around 5 X 7" is the smallest. The others are not much bigger. The self portrait is on canvas (a diptych) and it's the largest I made. Please email for pricing. Click on images for larger versions. Thanks for visiting!
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On June 12, Meet my Penguin! She along with nearly 60 other decorated penguins will be auctioned as a benefit for the zoo.
My Penguin is an "Atman", or a "Soul of Penguin". She is made of gold leaf, silver leaf, acrylic paint, glass beads, and a photo transfer of a drawing I made at the zoo. After living with my penguin form for a few days awaiting "her instructions", for my inspiration...I realized what was really missing/what was needed was the life spirit of "penguin". I turned to my sketchbooks filled with drawings from Woodland Park Zoo's residents, including the penguins. I found a penguin drawing to breathe life into my form...made a photo transfer of it with acrylic gel, covered it with glass beads and then lots of silver & gold leafing later...is this atman.
Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo is launching it's "March of the Penguins" auction Friday night at both the Seattle Center Space Needle and Greenwood Collective.
In celebration of community art and inspired by Woodland Park Zoo’s all
new Humboldt penguin exhibit, Woodland Park Zoo and The Greenwood
Collective joined forces to spread art and conservation awareness
throughout Seattle. Woodland Park Zoo provided artists, amateur and
professionals alike, with 22-inch fabricated penguins. The Greenwood
Collective managed artist submissions, providing workshops, materials
and artist guidance for this project.
Here are the details.
Woodland Park Zoo and The Greenwood Collective launch
Penguins on the March, a Seattle neighborhood art exhibit
Artist-decorated, fabricated penguins debut at Space Needle and The Greenwood Collective
Woodland Park Zoo and Greenwood’s shared creative work space The Greenwood Collective launch Penguins on the March at two corresponding exhibits on June 12th starting at the base of the Space Needle in the morning and closing at The Greenwood Collective in Greenwood-Phinney.
Sixty-two Seattle artists of all ages and experience levels painted, embellished and decorated fabricated penguins as a community celebration of art and wildlife conservation, inspired by Woodland Park Zoo’s brand new Humboldt penguin exhibit, which opened in May.
After its June 12th launch, Penguins on the March will begin migrating into Ballard, Fremont and Greenwood-Phinney, where you will find individual penguins prominently featured in front of neighborhood businesses in July, August and September.
WHEN: Friday, June 12, 2009
WHERE: 10:00 a.m. – noon (official program begins at 10:30 a.m.)
The Space Needle, outdoor, near the valet entrance
FREE: Open to press, penguin artists, family & friends, and public
And then at The Greenwood Collective, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
8537 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103
FREE: Open to the public during Art Up/Open Up Greenwood-Phinney monthly art walk
The Space Needle Artist Celebration
Official launch program begins at 10:30 a.m. featuring debut of 50 penguins and guest speakers
- Featured speakers: Woodland Park Zoo, professional and amateur artists, Greenwood Collective
- Live Penguin Mural by Bherd Studios
- Woodland Park Zoo’s Humboldt penguin wagon will distribute fun penguin giveaways
- Penguin mascot will entertain guests and passers-by
- Interviews available with artists and organizers
The Greenwood Collective Artist Celebration
- Featuring 30 penguins on exhibit between 6:00 – 9:00 p.m., plus artists
- Opening during monthly Art Up/Open Up Greenwood-Phinney neighborhood art walk
- Interviews available with The Greenwood Collective and penguin artists
- Look for the Penguin Mural by Bherd Studios on Greenwood Ave between 85th St and 87th St
After migrating through Seattle, the penguins will be auctioned off to benefit Woodland Park Zoo’s field conservation program. Woodland Park Zoo supports 38 wildlife conservation projects in 50 countries worldwide, including the Humboldt Penguin Conservation Center at Punta San Juan.
ABOUT Woodland Park Zoo
Accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, award-winning Woodland Park Zoo is famed for pioneering naturalistic exhibits and setting international standards in education, conservation, animal care and exhibitry. The 21st century zoo is helping to save animals and their habitats in Washington state and around the world. By inspiring people to care and act, Woodland Park Zoo is making a difference in our planet’s future. Opened in May 2009, the all new, 17,000-square-foot Humboldt penguin exhibit at Woodland Park Zoo transports zoo visitors to the desert coast of Punta San Juan—home of the largest colony of wild Humboldt penguins in Peru. See the zoo’s colony of 20 penguins in the naturalistic exhibit, featuring shoreline cliffs, crashing waves, rocky pools and beaches, and underwater vantage points that will offer guests nose-to-beak views as penguins splash, dive and “fly” underwater.
ABOUT The Greenwood Collective
The Greenwood Collective is a creative event and work space located in the heart of Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. This group of independent creative professionals exchange knowledge, resources, and inspiration in an effort to strengthen their overlapping communities.
My good (and highly talented) friend, Lucia Neare, is presenting this month's Lullaby Moon on Golden Gardens beach (Ballard) this Sunday at 8:30PM. This is number eight out of twelve in a series--happening once/month on the new moon. If you're in Seattle--you need to go. Lucia's work is wondrous, magical and unmatched in detail-imagination-sophistication-playfulness. Here's the official announcement for the show. I'll be there among others assisting with props, etc. and above all soaking up the magic!
Lucia Neare's Theatrical Wonders presents
Lullaby Moon VIII
Enter a world of wonder in Lullaby Moon VIII on Sunday, May 24, at Golden Gardens Park, Seattle. Twilight revels begin about 8:30 pm just north of the Bathhouse.
Lullaby Moon VIII is envisioned and created by Lucia Neare, with choreography by Olivier Wevers, musical direction by Matt Goodrich, theatrical direction by Cathy Madden, and technical direction by Damian Amrhein.
Lullaby Moon is a year-long invitation to Seattle to explore a world of dream. A celebration of the night sky, the series of performance events brings bedtime whimsy and wonder to parks and other public spaces throughout the city, enlivening and enlightening the dark time of each month. Performances take place on each new moon for an entire lunar year beginning in October 2008. Lullaby Moon is supported by 4Culture's Site Specific Performance Network, the Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Seattle Parks and Recreation, and the generosity of private donors.
For more information, please visit lucianeare.org.
One of my great joys in life...drawing on walls! Last Friday night I installed birds on the ceiling and walls of a home in Bellingham, Washington. Here are a few pictures of the flying budgies and one perched hummingbird, too. I forgot my digital camera, so I had to take these shots with my phone camera...thus the low resolution and a bit dark. These birds are inspired by my drawings in sketchbooks from visits to the zoo in Seattle where there are free flying budgies and other birds in a large aviary.
This Saturday I will be giving a presentation on Gesture Drawing. I am the capstone speaker for a conference organized by the Alumni of Seattle University's Master of Arts in Existential Phenomenological Psychology. The title of this year's conference is "Giving Voice to Experience: How Experience Becomes Evidence". You can visit their website for more information at http://www.seattleu-grad-psychology.com/research.html
I'm excited to give this presentation and demonstration on Gesture Drawing to a room full of practicing Psychologists and graduate students of Seattle University. Cross-pollination is always fun--bridging the gap between areas of study. Especially study involving how we experience and perceive our world. Gesture Drawing is a perfect fit for this overlap of research, since Gesture Drawing is experience visualized. The phenomenological method is very much what I know to be the method of the creative act: a discovery of the world without expectations.
If you're interested in attending the conference, please refer to their website (click on this link) for more information.
Thanks for visiting!
(Dawing: Barbara Fugate, Gesture Drawing made with watercolor on 24x36" paper.)
This afternoon I had the great pleasure of drawing from Hans (Handsome Hansel was his race name of one race only). Hans is a 13-1/2 year old greyhound, and still mighty handsome indeed. He was a bit reluctant at first to take the "model stand" but he soon settled into my couch and was the perfect portrait model. Here's a photo of Hans and the drawing as well with a detail. The drawing is 16X20" on ivory colored Fabriano paper and made with sepia chalk and watercolor washes. Thank you for visiting. For portrait commission inquires, please email.
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