Once teds workshop ended I stayed in Paris near the Charles de Guille Airport for several days. I went to the eiffel tower to meet up with friends I walked the canal near the eiffel tower, I also had lunch with a close friend of mine and explored the city. Most Importantly I went to the Louvre! what massive paintings they were! It is important to remember though that back in those times going to salon shows was a family event so these paintings were a form of entertainment. Much like the entertainment that we have now is Television and football games..
I flew home back to Arizona For 2 days and left again for San Francisco, California. I took a 2 week workshop Bay Area Classical Artists Atelier please check out the website and find further information regarding upcoming workshops, many of which I plan to attend in the coming year.
http://www.bacaa.org
The stay at the school (http://www.bacaa.org) was wonderful the environment in itself is very relaxing and there is always breakfast and coffee for the students.
I then studied with Graydon Parrish of Grand Central Academy. For those that do not know Graydon Parrish check out his website http://www.graydonparrish.com/Graydon_Parrish/Home.html he Is an amazing painter and is considered by many to be a leader of the realist movement. Graydon was taught by Michael Aviano and was trained on mixing color using the munsell method. He was very kind to share his information regarding color theory and color application as his method of mixing color really takes out a lot of the guesswork which is fantastic because it is incredibly frustrating to mix a color and to find yourself with the dreadful "gray"
He has a very simple non mathematical formula for mixing color. It is Hue=Value/Chroma.
In this case the Hue would be the color, the value would be the specific level of lightness that the color is in and the chroma would be the level of intensity or saturation that the color is in. Its actually very simple once its been explained in person and if anyone has any questions on the process of mixing colors according to the Munsell Method I would be more then happy to share the information.
After the workshop I took the train to los angelas for business matters and flew back to arizona yesterday afternoon. During this trip I was also able to complete volume 1 of my workbook which contains 4 years of notes on workshops I have attended and on my theories of painting as well as my work schedule. I was ALSO able to complete my anatomy plates book by elliot goldfinger, this was another 4 year project which I would practice copying anatomical plates to memorize the special shapes of the human figure. The Anatomy book though I will have to complete again 4 more times, with my work book I have initiated volume 2 of my workbook which does contain notes on graydon parishes workshop..
I will also be opening up another go fund me account to raise funds for my next trip to Argentin-Chatue in France I will be studying at Studio Escalier for 6 weeks. Following this event I might also be studying at the Art Students League for a week.
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