Cloud lesson from Ann Templeton and Abstract art

 "Multi-level Cloud" 12x16 oil on canvas

According to the weather forecast we're REALLY about to have some bad weather this evening! You'll know if I survived if/when I post again!

I'm enjoying once again putting into practice lessons from Ann Templeton on myarttutor.com. This is literally my first sky painting and I'm surprised that I like it!  I painted this after one of my cloud photos, and if you're my Facebook friend, you know I'm an avid cloud photographer!

I can't forget one flight back from California.  I was in a shuttle plane.  We were entering a cloudy section and i was so in awe to be in the middle of a multi-level cloud formation!  Gigantic clouds!  If it were a skyscraper, I was on the third floor or some mid level because I could see levels of clouds beneath us and above us with sunlight filtering in and out hitting what seem to be solid walls of clouds.  It's the closest I'll ever get to flying among them :)

 

"Wheels of Life" 4'x5' acrylics on canvas

I attended an art meeting yesterday and I was delighted to see my painting hung so proudly by the art director!  This must be the only abstract art I have "in public view" HAHAHA  I love the freedom, texture and dimension I can embrace with abstract art.  I grew up admiring my dear brother in law, Raul G. Isidro's work.  He is very successful in Asia, especially in the Philippines.  I'm sure you'd easily see the influence!  Now I'm sorry I played with dolls and toy guns as a kid instead of sitting in his studio watching him work!  If I only knew what amazing resources I had within my reach I would have changed so much!  But because of him I was painting at age 6 and drawing real life drawing models at 15 among college students because he was the dean of Fine Arts :)

Detail of "Wheels of Life" click on image

Go ahead!  You know you want to ask if I ran over the canvas!  :D

MyArtTutor.com's Ann Templeton and DPW landscape!

"Green of Spring" 5"x7" oil on masonite

What an absolutely victorious painting session to be able to combine work and art play! I created this painting to fulfill an assignment in a landscape online workshop offered by the legend Ann Templeton through MyArtTutor.com. It also fulfills my challenge submission to this week's Daily Paintworks.

I am not a landscape artist, but Ann Templeton took the fear away and put fun and sense of victory in my painting session. Here is her website : ANNTEMPLETON.COM

For DPW, this is a challenge offered by Carol Marine who wanted us to see how we would paint from her photo taken in Germany. Thanks Carol that was fun! :)

I work for MyArtTutor.com as creative "film" editor so why not check out my latest creation which happens to be a trailer for Ann Templeton's class using the technology of VoiceThread.Com
Click here Ann Templeton "Aspens" :)

MyArtTutor.com takes you to Glencoe, Scotland!

My latest trailer I've edited for MyArtTutor.com is an art workshop from Glencoe, Scotland by a lovely pastel painter and teacher named Margaret Evans. Usually I edit a whole workshop then I create a trailer so a trailer is usually a reason to celebrate!

Conte Pastels and New trailer

Here I was garbed with my spinning beanie hat interacting on MyArtTutor.com art workshop online as a tester student. This is for our latest class offering, a sepia or sanguine portrait class by a master of the medium Leslie B. DeMille. My 3-eyed drawing depicts different eye angles which Les demonstrates in his class.

First he drew some fruits to show simpler shapes that are reminiscent of faces but less intimidating to draw. Then the facial features: eyes, noses and mouths. Then a portrait from start to finish that he drew from a live model. Click on each of my images to see better if you wish to see larger :)



Finally another trailer I've edited today. The youtube videos are the only public ones and it's less than a 5th of what I edit daily since I started working for MyArtTutor. But we can only make the complete class videos available to students. So I hope you enjoy another trailer by me for MyArtTutor!

My Art Tutor Launches!

A little over 24 hours ago, I found out the company, MyArtTutor.com, I've been working for as Creative Editor etc. has chosen to make their public debut and launch off their first online art workshop. My contribution to the launch was to throw together the best Youtube video to talk about the online art workshop we are offering and how it works so that we can offer an interactive and hands-on learning experience for the art students. So about 9PM I went ahead and published this video on Youtube




Of course I would have liked to have spent 2 more days on the creation of the video, it but I'm so glad we made it happen on September 3rd! This is one of many art classes we're getting ready to roll out continuously so we'd love to know what you think about it! Our art teachers will walk you through your choice of medium and subject then give you assignments based on the skill level you are comfortable with and when you submit your assignments, they will be put up for discussions (or not if you prefer not to), and the art instructor will give individual critique of your work!

I hope this tells some of my readers and friends where I've been hiding lately. :) To give you an idea how much content we have, we work 7 days/week and averaging 15 hour days!

Sent Mom Home

Sent Mom home with her oil painting of her dear conures Kiwi and Sunny. Bet you can't guess which is which can you? :) Mom visited for 3 weeks and we're missing her already. I guess this means her left over cooking is almost gone?

I've been busy creating but not much painting. I recently got hired as film editor with a lot of graphics involved and some art directing thrown with it. It's a small company right now so we're pulling all resources from within but we're having FUN! Keep an eye out for MyArtTutor.com !

Right now I have a 16x20 and 30x40 canvas with gesso coating. However I need to do a charcoal portrait of a handsome young man first and I'm looking forward to that!

Hope your summer has been great!