Oil Painting Demonstration from Life – Peony #1
April 18th, 2011 by admin
lisagloria.blogspot.com Oil painting demonstration, painting alla prima from life. This video shows the process of painting a peony from life, including composition, color mixing, laying out the drawing, and approaching the painting in a methodical way for best results. Please visit our website for more demonstrations, workshops, and more.
“Shootout at the RS Corral” is the newest lobby series at the Roger Smith Hotel located at 501 Lexington Ave. in New York. Ed Adler has had a long and prolific career as an artist. His undergraduate studies at the University of Massachusetts were followed by a two-year stint with the Army of Occupation in Europe, where he spent much of his time creating posters warning GIs against the evils of sex, alcohol and Communist spies. Later, in the 1960′s, the GI Bill saw him through 5 years of study at the American Art School and the Art Students League; it was the era of sex, drugs and rock and roll and his paintings of the period reflected the kaleidoscopic mood. With the end of the Sixties, Adler saw the approaching decade of Yuppiedom and in the spirit of pragmatism entered grad school at New York University. He never really left: after earning both masters and Ph.D. degrees in art he stayed on to teach and remains today an Associate Professor on the adjunct faculty. The academic world offered adventurous opportunities: he has taught at the Sorbonne in Paris, lectured at many universities and conducted numerous seminars and conferences on the Beat Generation, a subject in which he is generally considered an authority, having both been a beat in his early youth and continues to be one today, in his middle youth. He is the author of Departed Angels: Jack Kerouac, The Lost Paintings, published 2006. An interest in folk and tribal art has taken him to far reaching remote regions …
Video Rating: 5 / 5

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