Friday, January 20, 2012
Opening Night postponed for one week!
Opening Night will be postponed one week, and will happen NEXT friday, the 27th, due to the crazy snow now! Doors will open at 6:45, show will start at 7:30pm, and I hope to see you all there!
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Wednesday Demo Cancelled!
100% chance of snow tomorrow morning, the weather says! It's supposed to get pretty nutty out there, so I will not be demoing at Daniel Smith in Bellevue tomorrow. Stay safe out there, peeps, and enjoy the snow!
Next demo will be in February at the Bellevue Daniel Smith store!
Opening night will be Friday, unless the weather continues to get crazy, and I hope to see you there! Stay tuned for weather update!
Next demo will be in February at the Bellevue Daniel Smith store!
Opening night will be Friday, unless the weather continues to get crazy, and I hope to see you there! Stay tuned for weather update!
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Opening Night!
Friday, December 30, 2011
Do you want to learn how to draw?
In addition to teaching private lessons...
I've got a few FREE workshops coming up on the fundamentals of drawing from life. They've all been good so far, and peeps have walked away with a lot of useful information. If you come, bring something to draw with and a piece of fruit. Each workshop is 2 hours. The are at the Daniel Smith Art Stores.
Sunday, January 8th at the SEATTLE store, 11am to 1pm.
Wednesday, January 18th at the BELLEVUE store, 11am to 1pm.
Saturday, February 25th at the BELLEVUE store, 11am to 1pm.
Also, for those of you who are serious, and can get to Maple Valley at 630pm on Thursday nights, I am about to start up the next run of my class on the fundamentals of drawing. http://www.maplevalleyarts.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=181069&module_id=53680 It's going to be great. There are still two spots left in the class. Send me an email if you are going to register! We will start out simple, so you can get the concepts down, and then have live models for the remaining three classes.
I've got a few FREE workshops coming up on the fundamentals of drawing from life. They've all been good so far, and peeps have walked away with a lot of useful information. If you come, bring something to draw with and a piece of fruit. Each workshop is 2 hours. The are at the Daniel Smith Art Stores.
Sunday, January 8th at the SEATTLE store, 11am to 1pm.
Wednesday, January 18th at the BELLEVUE store, 11am to 1pm.
Saturday, February 25th at the BELLEVUE store, 11am to 1pm.
Also, for those of you who are serious, and can get to Maple Valley at 630pm on Thursday nights, I am about to start up the next run of my class on the fundamentals of drawing. http://www.maplevalleyarts.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=181069&module_id=53680 It's going to be great. There are still two spots left in the class. Send me an email if you are going to register! We will start out simple, so you can get the concepts down, and then have live models for the remaining three classes.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Want to accomplish something?
If you want to accomplish something, you've got to have the power to do so. Do you understand power?
"Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight. And, though a man cannot return into his mother's womb, and be born with new amounts of vivacity, yet there are two economies, which are the best succedanea which the case admits. The first is, the stopping off decisively our miscellaneous activity, and concentrating our force on one or a few points; as the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, instead of suffering it to spindle into a sheaf of twigs.
"Enlarge not thy destiny," said the oracle: "endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge." The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends, and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work. Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes, -- all are distractions which cause oscillations in our giddy balloon, and make a good poise and a straight course impossible. You must elect your work; you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest. Only so, can that amount of vital force accumulate, which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'Tis a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness. Many an artist lacking this, lacks all: he sees the masculine Angelo or Cellini with despair. He, too, is up to Nature and the First Cause in his thought. But the spasm to collect and swing his whole being into one act, he has not. The poet Campbell said, that "a man accustomed to work was equal to any achievement he resolved on, and, that, for himself, necessity not inspiration was the prompter of his muse."
http://www.rwe.org/complete/complete-works/vi-conduct-of-life/ii-power.html
"Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight. And, though a man cannot return into his mother's womb, and be born with new amounts of vivacity, yet there are two economies, which are the best succedanea which the case admits. The first is, the stopping off decisively our miscellaneous activity, and concentrating our force on one or a few points; as the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, instead of suffering it to spindle into a sheaf of twigs.
"Enlarge not thy destiny," said the oracle: "endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge." The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends, and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work. Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes, -- all are distractions which cause oscillations in our giddy balloon, and make a good poise and a straight course impossible. You must elect your work; you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest. Only so, can that amount of vital force accumulate, which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'Tis a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness. Many an artist lacking this, lacks all: he sees the masculine Angelo or Cellini with despair. He, too, is up to Nature and the First Cause in his thought. But the spasm to collect and swing his whole being into one act, he has not. The poet Campbell said, that "a man accustomed to work was equal to any achievement he resolved on, and, that, for himself, necessity not inspiration was the prompter of his muse."
http://www.rwe.org/complete/complete-works/vi-conduct-of-life/ii-power.html
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
FREE workshop at Bellevue Daniel Smith, Dec 7th, 2001 11am-1pm
I have another free drawing workshop coming up at the Bellevue Daniel Smith location on Wednesday December 7th. The workshop will run for 2 hours, from 11am-1pm. I'll be covering the fundamentals for the first hour and fifteen minutes or so, and then the remaining 45 minutes everyone will get a chance to draw while I come around and help. Please bring a piece of fruit and something to sketch with. I want to make sure everyone gets to draw for a little bit at the end so you can work out a few kinks and have some ideas to take home with you! Hope to see you there!
http://www.danielsmith.com/content--id-69#bellevue
http://www.danielsmith.com/content--id-69#bellevue
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