Learn pastel at Paint Creek Center for the Arts

There is still room in my pastel class at Paint Creek Center for the Arts in Rochester, MI. We will explore soft pastel as applied to still life arrangements with a focus on the floral motif and color theory. Demonstrations will include blending techniques and a discussion of specific paper types. We meet weekly 9-12 beginning this Tuesday, January 17. Beginners are welcome. 

Registration details are here.

Winter Classes at Paint Creek

Starting January 17 I am teaching pastel, watercolor, and painting on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings respectively. Classes are at Paint Creek Center for the Arts in charming downtown Rochester, MI. Beginners and all levels are welcome. For more information and registration go here.

Under the Dock, watercolor, 9x12 inches, 1990

Striped Light

This is an earlier version of my previous post. It was one of the first in an ongoing series of paintings based on the Great Lakes.

Oil on paper, 4.5 x 12 inches, 2015

White Shoal Light

This piece is based on the White Shoal Light, a lighthouse located 20 miles west of the Mackinac Bridge in Lake Michigan. It remains an active aid to navigation.

Oil on canvas, 10x20 inches, 2016

Big Red at Night

I am in a group show opening this Saturday at Button Gallery in Douglas, MI. Douglas is on Lake Michigan, across the river from Saugatuck. I am showing ten new works inspired by the Great Lakes. Big Red at Night is one of the pieces. The theme of the exhibition is “Eye on the Land”.

Details are here.

Big Red at Night, oil on canvas, 11 x 14 inches, 2015

Spring Classes

This spring I am teaching pastel, watercolor, and an open painting class at Paint Creek Center for the Arts in charming downtown Rochester, MI. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings respectively. All levels are welcome. Details are here.

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David K. Page

This is my portrait of the late David K. Page, benefactor of the new Children's Hospital in Troy, MI.

Oil on linen, 30 x 24 inches, 2016

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Winter Teaching Schedule

I am offering a number of classes this winter at both the Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Center and at Paint Creek Center for the Arts. You can find detailed information here.

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Figure Study

Graphite on paper, 9 x 12 inches, c.2000
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New Buffalo Studies

Recently I was in New Buffalo and took advantage of a sunny Sunday to make some watercolor studies of Lake Michigan. All are 4 x 6 inches. I gave up on the last one because I was cold and wet, and it was getting dark.

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Falling Bouquet

This watercolor is from about 2002.
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Reclining Figure

Conte on paper, 9 x 12 inches, 2001
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Study for First Novel

This is one of several studies for my previous post.

Pastel on paper, 6 x 8 inches, c. 2005
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First Novel

This painting was inspired one night while walking home from my old studio in downtown Ferndale. I caught a glimpse of a young person typing in one of the many basement apartments along Nine Mile. Several sketches preceded the actual painting.

Fine art prints of this painting are available here.

Oil on panel, 16 x 20 inches, c. 2005
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Cupid

When I was in art school at the University of Iowa there was a lot of talk about drawing, especially pertaining to line.

Bamboo pen and ink, 2003.
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Head Study

The worst thing about going through all my old drawings was having to spray them with that noxious fixative. I went through over a dozen cans. Fortunately my studio is big and has good ventilation.

Graphite on paper, 12 x 9 inches, c.1997
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Charcoal Study

I just finished cataloging well over a thousand old drawings, watercolors, pastels, prints, and oils, including thirty-five sketchbooks. I am going to post some of them in the next few weeks as I complete a portrait commission. Here is the first.

Charcoal on paper, 9 x 12 inches, c.2002
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Woman and Chain

Continuing to post older work. Fine art prints of this painting are available here ... http://goo.gl/4GVaYv

Oil on panel, 16 x 20 inches, 1998
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Portrait of Sarah

I worked with Sarah only once or twice, but she was a very expressive model. This painting is unique in that it was done on copper. The copper panel was given to me by the artist Ken Kaiser, who prepared it himself. The original painting as well as fine art prints are available here...http://goo.gl/kxdscJ

Oil on copper, 10 x 8 inches, 2015
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Top Hat

 

I am going to post older work as I continue with commissioned portraits, as well as developing a series of paintings of the Great Lakes. Fine art prints of this painting are available here.

Oil on panel, 12 x 10 inches, 2001.
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Kenneth B. Katz

Ken Katz is an art conservator and the 2014 president of the Prismatic Club in Detroit. He is also a mountain climber, and some of the mountains he has climbed are represented in the paintings which hang behind him. Also in the paintings are several buildings in Detroit which are of significance to him. The setting for the portrait is the interior of the Prismatic Club.

Fine art prints are available here.

Oil on linen, 30 x 24 inches, 2015
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