

Use small plein air studies to inform your studio paintings.


Being angry at the world is not the same as working to change it.

Lots of blank canvases to fill.


The artists — painters Stanley Bielen, Anne Blair Brown, Kathleen Jones, and Melanie Parke — are bringing the outside in and reflecting on the opportunity to nurture and nourish.

But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.


The house was built in 1880, and the property sits on a quiet, rural road, seemingly in the middle of nowhere.



So how can your painting become more joyful and intuitive, even if you lack academic mileage? I have taken this approach before in terms of a value study, but I have never actually painted on top of the Grisaille.
Description: Larger umbrella painting using the study at the top of this page as reference.