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I have a friend, Jules Arthur, who is a phenomenal painter. He critiques my work and gives me crazy good advice. The problem is my response. I say things like, “Well, I was going to do that, but then the paint exploded, and went all over my canvas, and this guy fell, and then my shoe […]
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Actually Painting At The MET!!!
The next day was my fourth class at the MET copying, Sir Thomas Lawrence. I love this class! It’s...
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Sketching With The Masters At The Met
I forgot to mention the best day of our non-painting days. It was to visit the MET’s Drawing and...
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Still No Painting At The MET
Soooo, none of the paintings I chose were approved by the curators. There is a curator for each...
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Master Copy Class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
I’m taking a class from the New York Academy of Art called Master Copying Class at the Metropolitan...
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Max Ginsburg’s Retrospective
It’s Saturday and it is finally starting to feel like fall outside. I’m on a train headed for...
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Art Student League with Ricky, Alex, Max and Grace. A day of firsts.
Grace (my daughter) and I caught the 7:15AM train to NYC last Saturday. We met my friends...
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Confessions
So, what can I say? I have been more overwhelmed in the last 6+ months than at...
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WORKSHOPS
SHELLI ALFORD’S WEEK OF GREAT MASTERS OCTOBER 19 – 23, 2015 Take your art to the next level....
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Max Ginsburg Workshop In His Beautiful Studio
The first day of any workshop I follow a very consistent pattern: I mess up. I messed up...
I have always wanted to learn how to paint in oils, but I felt too intimidated in college to learn. Then I did the whole go to college, transfer colleges, transfer back to original college, graduate from college, get a job, get transferred to yankeeville, fall in love, get married, buy a dog, buy a house, renovate a house, have a child, buy another dog, have another child, buy a REALLY old house, (for which I was so unprepared), renovate that house, raise a family and then my kids abruptly left me at the same time last year.
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Hearing Voices Instead Of Solid Critiques From Teachers
I have a friend, Jules Arthur, who is a phenomenal painter. He critiques my work and gives me...
-
Actually Painting At The MET!!!
The next day was my fourth class at the MET copying, Sir Thomas Lawrence. I love this class! It’s...
-
Sketching With The Masters At The Met
I forgot to mention the best day of our non-painting days. It was to visit the MET’s Drawing and...
-
Still No Painting At The MET
Soooo, none of the paintings I chose were approved by the curators. There is a curator for each...
-
Master Copy Class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
I’m taking a class from the New York Academy of Art called Master Copying Class at the Metropolitan...
-
Max Ginsburg’s Retrospective
It’s Saturday and it is finally starting to feel like fall outside. I’m on a train headed for...
-
Art Student League with Ricky, Alex, Max and Grace. A day of firsts.
Grace (my daughter) and I caught the 7:15AM train to NYC last Saturday. We met my friends...