ANGELA NESBIT - DEMO

Angela Nesbit discussing the design of her painting to the well attended demo!

ANGELA NESBIT - PREPARING FOR PALETTE KNIFE WORKSHOP

Selecting the best flowers for her bouquet demo...a real challenge for .

KEN AUSTER AT WORK!

CITY LIGHTS - AUSTER

The warm and the cool side of the street....amazing!!! He brings life to people out of dark splotches of color!

ALIEN COLOR - KEN AUSTER

Ken Auster's first demo...with alien color (in this case phthalo blue) and all in the bell tower... how he wormed his way through with value lines to direct the eye to the focal point...he discussed having the ability to take a viewer exactly where he wanted to take them with line, color, detail and contrast...the focal point which is where he begins his paintings in making a road map the first fifteen minutes to lay out the design.

FROM THOSE BLACK BLOBS OF PAINT...

The finished Ken Auster product! Finished in about an hour...

A phrase Ken used over and over again...if it is "not working" in the first 30 minutes, start over!!!

KEN AUSTER - DEMO WORKS

Wow! It has been too long. Since I last wrote both Ken Auster (Laguna Beach, CA) and Angela Nesbit (Charlotte, NC) have been her to hold workshops!

So, to begin with Ken...BRILLIANT!!! You could hear a pin drop during his incredible demo and lecture. What a master at his art!!

To begin...the focal point - his spider with its abstract web. How he was able to control the viewer's eyes with line, value, contrast and "alien" color...a color that is not found anywhere else in the work.

And, my how he is able to pull off actual gestural figures from a black blob of paint.