Glad's Art Blog

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Nov. 10, 2012 - ArtRiot Reception

Nov. 10, 2012 - ArtRiot Reception at the Escondido Municipal Art Gallery. Gladys will be at the reception with her artwork titled "Abstract 9". Reception starts at 5:30 pm. Stop by and say hello.

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Life Brings Changes

Boxer, 16"x20" oil on canvas

Dear Friends,

I am enjoying taking Figure Painting classes from Michael Steirnagle. At first I was not sure how well my art would be received because I tend to paint a bit different, not "painterly" at all, but after 6 paintings completed for this class I came to like my own style and realized that it's unique already. Here is a sample of one of the paintings I did for class from a marble statue.

Michael said that I am a graphic painter on one of his critics, and not sure if I know any other graphic painters work but I am learning much at this class and happy that I don't have to paint "painterly" but I can do me. We had two models in the the last two classes, which is new for me. Although I had a live nude model at a class I took last month with artist Darrel McPhearson, it was a different as we did sketches instead of painting.

I began a few abstracts, which are always a breath of fresh air after working on paintings for the Figure Painting class. I want to do a series of painting from my trip to Laguna Beach and Torrey Pines this summer as well, so stay tune for those.

I celebrate my birthday in October and it always brings big changes in some area of my life. Looking forward to something new and different. It is also the month for Halloween...gotta love how creative people can be with their customs.

Have fun and until next time...

Love,

Glad

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Sunday, August 19, 2012

My Creative Space

Horse, 8"x10" oil on Canvas

Dear Friends,

This month I began a "Farm Animals" series of paintings. I began with a "Piggy", then "Mr. Rooster", and just began a horse painting. All of these are small, 8" x 10" on canvas.

I also signed up to take a semester class from artist Michael Steirnagle at Palomar College. I'm really looking forward to taking his figurative painting class, as I thought I was not going to be able because of the class schedule I had at CSUSM.

Due to health reasons I am unable to continue my plans to attend CSUSM full-time to get a Visual of Arts degree. Sometimes you want something but life takes you a different direction. We don't always know why, but by now I do know it's because there are higher better plans for me...one good benefit I can already see is that I'll be able to spend time painting, as the full-time schedule of classes ahead at CSUM would have kept me so busy, that I would have hardly had anytime to paint.

I began reading this month a book, "Alla Prima" by Richard Schmid. I love his style of writing and looking forward to applying his tips after I complete my Farm Animals series and begin a series of landscape paintings. I hope I can incorporate some of his tips so I can paint more "painterly" as he does.

This is it for now, stay cool.

With love,
Glad