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  Eugene Senior Member Username: Eugene Post Number: 483 Registered: 8-2006 |
Grez. Nuttall took a workshop with Reid. about ten years ago in Scottsdale. I believe it is the only workshop he ever attended. Reid was so impresses that he told him that he should be teaching. And Reid got a job for him teaching at the Scottsdale school. | ||
Grizrev Senior Member Username: Grizrev Post Number: 653 Registered: 8-2006 |
Eugene, Ted Nuttall's people paintings remind me so much of Charles Reid. Did one study under the other, or both together? It is an interesting style that I appreciate, but truthfully I prefer Marie's. I hope taking his workshop won't change her style, which is truly wonderful. In fact, I think I prefer your people to Nuttall's, Eugene. Again, all of this is no doubt a matter of personal taste and preference. | ||
Eugene Senior Member Username: Eugene Post Number: 482 Registered: 8-2006 |
error--- should say I want to tell Marie | ||
Eugene Senior Member Username: Eugene Post Number: 481 Registered: 8-2006 |
theses aren't Christmas, I just want t tee Marie that she is going to love Ted Nuttall's workshop. I changed a lot of the way I paint after taking his course. B u t your figures are already wonderful. The first one I started in his workshop and finished at home 11x14 the second one I'm going to enter in a national show. full sheet   | ||
Graphitegrunt Board Administrator Username: Graphitegrunt Post Number: 62 Registered: 3-2007 |
Wonderful Work everyone - thanks for showing! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us at Cheap Joe's! | ||
Grizrev Senior Member Username: Grizrev Post Number: 650 Registered: 8-2006 |
Absolutely marvelous you guys! Thanks so much for sharing. Marie, your use of light and the way you convey personality is remarkable. What a gift, and, yes, I know, the result of years of hard work and patient investment of time and energy in each painting. I'm sure you'll get the umbrella painting corrected -- just throw your energy and enthusiasm at it, not to mention your skill. Most watercolors seem to respond to rescue attempts of that sort! Please show us the "before" and "after" for our edification! | ||
Jcator Member Username: Jcator Post Number: 28 Registered: 3-2007 |
This is my card for this year's Holidays ... it's a linocut. I try to print one every year. I just finished carving the design Saturday, cut the paper Sunday morning and started printing Sunday afternoon (limited edition of 100). So far I have printed about 50 and should be finished by tomorrow ... whew, I really should have started a little earlier but I think I will have all of them in the post by Fri./Sat.  | ||
Marie Senior Member Username: Marie Post Number: 473 Registered: 8-2006 |
Eugene, I love your Christmas card, too. It really feels like Lancaster in the winter. Grizrev, I haven't done any Christmas work, but here are a few fairly recent pieces. The first three are from a funeral in New Orleans. Oh my, they know how to give someone a proper send-off.  I had to get rid of the right hand side of the umbrella painting because I had some drawing problems. What you see is the remaining section. I might revisit this one when I get a chance.   The orange and green painting looks a lot better in person. I wasn't able to get the photo to come out right. And this one was a quick study of a guy on the back of a garbage truck, also in New Orleans:  | ||
Grizrev Senior Member Username: Grizrev Post Number: 648 Registered: 8-2006 |
The sky in Eugene's card is lovely -- such beautiful gradation, and the smoke from the chimney seems to float off the page! The gradation in the shadows is nice as well, as in the shadow that touches the gravestone at the bottom from one that is out of sight. Nice work, Eugene. Are the walls of the church made of stone? What a beautiful old building, and what a lovely card indeed. Thanks for the greetings! And thank you, Marie, for your kind and encouraging comment. Like you, I do enjoy the simple monochrome washes, especially for plein aire sketching of architecture, where surfaces often are very close in color range. I know you haven't painted something especially for this Christmas, but I bet you have something in your files that would work. I love to see your paintings -- do send us a "card!" Where is your card, Joanna -- and the rest of you out there? | ||
Joanna Senior Member Username: Joanna Post Number: 211 Registered: 10-2006 |
Love the card, esp the sky. Wouldn't you love to open an envelope and see that card? I would. | ||
Eugene Senior Member Username: Eugene Post Number: 480 Registered: 8-2006 |
Here's my 2008 card. it's Boehm's Chapel, the oldest existing Methodist Church building in PA-- as I imagined it looked on Christmas eve 200 years ago. located near where I live in Lancaster, PA. MERRY CHRISTMAS  | ||
Marie Senior Member Username: Marie Post Number: 472 Registered: 8-2006 |
Grizrev, I love it! Monochrome wash drawings are my favorites. I haven't done any Christmas paintings. Merry Christmas to everyone! | ||
Grizrev Senior Member Username: Grizrev Post Number: 647 Registered: 8-2006 |
I thought it might be fun for all of us to post a Christmas picture -- kind of an online Christmas card to each other. Having seen many New England church buildings on Christmas cards, I thought it might be nice to send you a little sketch I did of the top of a church peering over the rooftops of the buildings on the north side of the Campo di Santa Margherita in Venice, not the typical setting for Christmas scenes. Yes, we were there just before the recent flooding, and the weather was warm enough to sit in the center of the campo near the old well and sketch. Merry Christmas!  |
