“Cutting Girl” was accepted into the 30th Annual Arizona Aqueous XXX Watercolor exhibit at the Tubac Center of the Arts.  The show is January 29th – March 15th, 2016 in Tubac, AZ.

yea!

Come see our group show from our Autobody Art Gallery and Studio Bridge program.  February 6-19, 2016.  Artist reception is Saturday, February 6, 6-9 pm.

I worked on a series of new paintings in acrylic.

Classes are beginning next week, but there’s still time to sign-up.  I’m teaching watercolor and medium exploration classes.

For the past three months I’ve been working in a program with other professional artists to create a new body of work.  We’d meet once a week at the Autobody Fine Art studio in Alameda, California.  My goal was to complete a new painting each week in a more loose, more alla prima style.  I didn’t quite finish one painting each week, but I finished one every two weeks, which for me was successful.  It was an exercise to just get started in front of the blank canvas and just ending … knowing when it was time to just move on.  It was inspiring to work with four other artists; all very talented; all very different. We had critique and instruction and opinion.   It was an exercise in painting in “public” and hearing criticism of my work… some helpful, some just commentary, but all good training.  Here are some of the pieces.

Old and Young, acrylic, 36 in x 48 in

Jimmy, acrylic, 36 in x 48 in

Marcy, acrylic, 36 in x 48 in

Re-do of “Connie”, acrylic, 36 in x 48 in