Nancy Franke - March Workshop Group - Everyone had such a great time!!!!! There were 16 students in this group and two came to watch the demos each day. The work produced by this group was incredible...what a great inspiration Nancy is to everyone!!!







Nancy Franke - Day 2 Demo - her lovely soft palette. They worked on how to get glass to look like glass.















Nancy Franke does it all - juggles a bottled water and paint brush as she cruises around the room helping everyone with their painting. She helped students see the dark and light in the stems of the flowers as they entered a glass container and also see the beautiful blue light and warm bright light that was reflected in the glass by the light.

ABOUT FINISHES - A QUOTE ABOUT JEREMY LIPKING'S WORK

What a MASTER!!!

"The magic occurs in the finish. As he progresses, he gradually refines each area, adjusting relationships of color and adding deft touches to define select elements. He brings certain forms to a razor sharp level of finish. Other passages are left vague and undefined. In this interplay of sharp and loose, the painting literally opens up and breathes. This is what makes his art seem so lifelike. Instead of resting as static images, his canvases pulse with the subtle energy of a living thing."

Michael Zakian, Ph.D.
Director
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art

Pepperdine Unive

see http://www. lipking.com/

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BILL DAVIDSON FINISHES A FOUR DAY INTENSIVE

OPA Signature Member, Bill Davidson, finsishes a four day intensive landscape workshop with sixteen gifted participants. Day one started with 'creating' your own rocks, cliffs and water. Why not start with the tough stuff first??? The group must of been drained because Bill kept them every night until 6:30. Thanks, Bill, for coming!!!

Here are some comments:

"Bill, you are a real taskmaster, BUT good gosh, we learned (or were exposed) to so much!!! Thank you for your time, your explanation of what you are doing on the canvas so we know what's in your head. Looking forward to the next one!!" Sydney S.

"What a great workshop!....I love moving fast through things and being able to cover so much. Thanks so much for loving what you do!" Carol G.

STUDENT BETH STORMONT'S GUITAR STUDY - WEDNESDAY MORNING CLASS

Beth Stormont did this study in Donna Thomas' Wednesday morning "Personal Projects" class. Wonderful dramatic light with dark background, great execution of hands and guitar. Nicely done, Beth!!!

GARY WEISS - FIGURE DRAWING SIMPLIFIED

And, finally, when you have done all of the cylinders with curved lines to create volume, softened the contour lines about the cylinders, you begin to create your cast and form shadows. The cast shadows are the hard edge shadows that soften as they move away from the object casting the shadow and the form shadows are SOFT. This was Gary's five minute demo last week to his class on shadows...

GARY WEISS - FIGURE DRAWING SIMPLIFIED

Note how to line up with tracheal notch with other parts of torso - to umbilicus, nipples. And, the clavicles (collar bones).

GARY WEISS - FIGURE DRAWING SIMPLIFIED

Drawing reveals cyliner of upper arm, and use of circles and adjoining lines to indicate foreshortening. Rectangles indicate hand, mid-hand and fingers.