Sierra Landscape Painting Workshop

Here are some pictures from my landscape painting workshop in the Sierra's. We made the town of June Lake our base camp and each day went out to paint a different location between Yosemite and Mammoth Lakes. We all had a great time, great weather and some amazing subjects to paint.

Painting a waterfall in Lee Vining Canyon

An Aspen grove in Lee Vining Canyon.

I had Bartche Miller from the Mono Lake Committee come give an amazing talk on the geology and natural history of the Sierra Nevada.

Ellery Lake and Ellery Bowl.

Painting on the shore of Lake George. Because of the record snowfall this year there was still a huge amount of snow on the ground above 9000 ft. Some of the lakes I was planning on taking the group were still frozen over and under 8 feet of snow and probably wont be open till the end of July.

Mono county is the least populated county in California and there are no cities nearby to cause light pollution, this makes for an amazing night sky.

After a day of painting we went down to South Tufa at Mono Lake to watch the sunset. Cody was the only one with the energy to pull off another painting.

After the last day of the workshop we relaxed with some wine at hilltop hotsprings.

My workshop demos.

Realist Revolution and Critical Relevance

I'm moderating a very important panel discussion in the Washington D.C area Friday night April 23rd with some REALLY top notch panelists, Jacob Collins, Alexey Steele, James Panero and Dr. Vern Swanson. It is part of the PSOA conference but it's free and open to the public (reservations required) contact 
Christine Egnoski at info@portraitsociety.org or call 877-772-4321



Contemporary Art: 

REALIST REVOLUTION

and 

CRITICAL RELEVANCE


Is Main Stream Media Missing an Important Cultural Trend? 



Friday night April 23rd 2010 4:00pm
 Hyatt Regency Reston, VA




Premises: 
There is an actually existing, wide-spread, multi-faceted Realist movement in
the Art world today. It is functioning as a set of specific tools,
philosophy and practice. As any major art movement in history - it is a
common visual language based on a common world view. 
This movement is current, relevant and forward - looking
. This movement is part of presently existing contemporary Art 
This movement is a reflection of an important aspect of our modern world - democratization of cultural plane.


more info http://www.lipking.com/realistrevolution.html

California Figure Workshops

I'm having two 3-day workshops at my studio this November. We'll spend the first two days painting the figure in the studio and the last day we'll paint the figure outdoors. The cost is $495.

sign up online:
November 6th-8th
November 13th-15th

more info here

Colorado Academy of Art Closes and Owes People Money

This is an update from last weeks entry October Workshop Canceled
Apparently Peter Kennedy has owed a lot of people a lot of money for a long time. I've been getting a lot of of email lately about Peter Kennedy and the CAA, Some are from former teachers and many from students who were signed up for my October workshop at the Academy. I haven't heard from anyone who has actually received a refund for the class or even gotten a reply from Peter Kennedy, if anyone did get refunded I'd like to know. It doesn't seem likely though, according to an article in the Daily Camera the teachers at the school haven't been paid for six months, he wasn't good in business and administration but he was sure good at convincing people to work for free.

Update: The school is filing Chap. 7 Bankruptcy, if you dont want him absolved of his dept you need to file a complaint with the court by 2/23/09. There is a "meeting of creditors" on 12/23/08 but it is not necessary to attend.

Address:
US Bankruptcy Court
US Custom House
721 19th Street
Denver, CO 80202-2508
# 720 904-7300
Case# 08-28803-SBB

October Colorado Workshop Canceled

The Colorado Academy of Art in Boulder has closed, and my workshop has been canceled.
This is text from an email sent out today from Peter Kennedy of CAA, it gives an email address to contact someone about a refund. It doesn't sound very assuring, if you were signed up for the workshop you should probably contact them right away. The doors are closed, the website is down, the phone is disconnected and the email address below is the only way to get in contact with anyone from the school.

"There are some outstanding refunds that still need to be addressed for future classes or workshops that some have registered for. Please respond to caaclosed@gmail.com if a refund is owed to you so we can begin to formulate a plan to try to pay those back."

Update: Just found this article online on the Daily Camera about the CAA closing. Apparently the instructors stopped getting payed 6 months ago.