A Chance to Win A Painting Workshop Weekend with Artist Instructor Judith Reidy

This sounds like fun too.

Win Weekend Painting Workshop 

with 

 artist, instructor

 Judith Reidy.

I  am creating an educational blog this summer. 

 It will be providing ideas and instruction in 

 painting and drawing technique as well as Art History. 

 Each post

 will have either

 a practice painting,

 a series of questions, 

or opportunities to comment from each post.

Guidelines for Winning
Participation

1. Follow the Judith Reidy Art Classes Blog 
2. Chances earned for each response vary according to the clearly posted level of difficulty. from 1 to 15 ( 15 being the highest)
3. The minimum requirement to be entered to win is 30 points.
4. Extra Credit chances can be earned by class attendance in day or evening classes.
5. Last day of August, Winner will be announced.

For me it will be great fun to spend the weekend sharing with another artist with whom I have had the opportunity to develop an in depth conversation about art over the summer on our blog. Together this summer we will cover such topics as ....

 Tonalist Painting, 

 Impressionistic Paint of Light,

 Thumbnail Sketches,

 Plein Air Painting,

 Developing Purpose,

 Perspective Drawing,

Colors Mixing and Vibration

 preparing to draw people

  the value of still life drawing and painting

Composition

and many more topics. 

Join in the conversation and WIN,

We are starting Today.   With the first lesson..... at the Judith Reidy Art Classes Blog 
Tonalism Lesson 1  Part 1 Let's look at a Tonalist painting in terms of Composition


Judith Reidy

CLASS Schedule for the next two weeks......

This is a public announcement !

Midweek painting class this week and next week is at the usual time 12:30 to 2:30, Wednesday July 5 and July 12.  

Evening painting class this week and next is on Wednesdays 7 to 9 pm on  July 5 and July 12.  

I am back from PLEIN Air events till next event in downtown Milwaukee that begins July 15.

Check out the Judith Reidy classes blog on the  4th of July  for more  helpful painting concepts.

http://judithreidyartclasses.blogspot.com/?m=1

Win a weekend workshop! By Answering the blog questions improve your chances to win

Exciting Summer Ahead for Learning to Paint

As you know the spring is coming to a close as May has arrived, the flowers are blossoming and the leaves are peaking out of the branches.

This past season in my art classes I have developed a new series of classes
designed to train an aspiring artist to become an astute draftsman ready to begin composing ones own paintings.  As one of my students would say....to orchestrate a composition rather than slavishly copy a photograph or a scene in Plein Air.
For those students who have chosen to follow my instruction in doing the preliminary practice of sketching and planning their values and shapes in their composition before they begin painting,  it has been exciting to see how students have grown.

Key Factors to Growth
1.) Training to observe CAREFULLY
Start slowly, observe, ALWAYS check and recheck
2.) Think composition......first consider  the value pattern and shapes you design more than the "objects"......  consciously  creating  interesting and powerful compositions.
 To improve the composition of your given source material sometimes alter what you  have carefully observed.

This summer I plan on offering some plein air painting instruction utilizing the sketching principles we worked on developing this past year.

After looking at values in drawing and working on a the problems of drawing a still life from life.  Jeff  attempted his first still life in acrylic paint on his own.

Careful observation of shape, value combined with conscious awareness of the composition of light and dark pattern over the entire canvas including both positive and negative space here demonstrates how careful observation and thoughtful composing of light and dark pattern structures a beautiful painting.

I have two suggestions for Jeff.  One is regard to the cloth texture.  In acrylic it can be very challenging to create smooth blending.  A Golden or Liquitex blending medium can be very helpful to slow drying time and allow for smoother transitions in the folds. That said without using the medium Jeff did an amazing job working at getting at smooth folds, even without blending medium. 

Secondly look at lost edges.  Especially the middle pear.  I receding edge should be softened as in the the case of the shadowed underside of the pear. Also the cloth edges in the rear could be softened to suggest that they recede behind the pears in space.

For a first still life however, this is a great beginning to be proud of in every way.  You said you worked on this first still life for 10 hours.  Something you should know about Jeff is that he was an Olympic Speed Skater and now trains Olympic Speed Skaters.  If he applies the same disciplined training that took him to the Olympics to painting he will be an accomplished painter before he knows it.

Critique of Judith Reidy's Students' Exhibition Paintings

As my students instructor I should let you know something about myself. 
I was fortunate to have had a qualified friend who  without solicitation kindly offered to critique the work for the benefit of all of you my students who have been interested in developing as artists or understanding the development of "right" thinking on art.  Follow the link at the bottom for the comments as promised at the reception.

Judith Reidy ……Artist and Instructor of t....her       students	Bio Education Judith C. Reidy graduated from the UWM School of Fine Arts, with a major in painting and drawing, BFA. She studied with such artists as Lorin Willey,  Fred Bell, Katie Mussloff, Greg LaRock, Lawrence Rathsack, Adolph Rosenblatt, Tom Uttech, Joan Franzen, Laura Priebe, Helena Ehlke, Joe Stanke, Paulette Jensen, Daryll Jenson, and Ed Knippers, Stephan Samerjan. Galleries Current: Rivers End Gallery, Waukesha, WI De Lind Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
	Associations Wisconsin Plein Air Painters League of Milwaukee Artists - Exhibition Chair 2006-2008 Wisconsin Visual Artist s - formerly Wisconsin Painters and Sculptures
	2nd Place, an Honorable Mention, Milwaukee Domes Art Festival, August 17, 10am –August 19, 2012 4pm Honorable Mention, A State of Inspiration Exhibition - Schauer Center for the Arts, Hardford, WI., July 20,–September 3, 2012 Honorable Mention, Art and Music in the Park -  Plein air Event FAME - Mukwonago, July 9 -July 13, 2012 Second Place, Mini Masters, Raven Gallery30,2011 Pewaukee, WI, November 2011 through December Show, Ist Place, Brush with the Wind 2011, Wisconsin Plein Air Plein Air Painters Association, May 2011 Best of Show, Go Figure, Wisconsin Pastel Artists, Gallery 110 North, Plymouth, WI, Jan 16 - Mar15, 2009, Honorable Mention, Falling for You, Wisconsin Pastel Artists, Art Bar, Milwaukee, WI, February 5 through March 18, 2010 Honorable Mention, Plein Aire art Competition on Downer in Milwaukee, WI May June 2008 Award of Excellence, “Gathering Before the Storm”, League of Milwaukee Artists’ Winter Show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, January 2 through March 2, 2008 Third Place, Oconomowoc Paintfest, August 2007, Second Place, Waukesha Wet Paint Event Aug 2006 Best of Show, AC Art Association Winter

 If you email me at judith@judithreidy.com I will send you a link to the comments.

Rhonda Simonson " Quiet Villa" in Art Instructor Judith Reidy's Students' Exhibition

This is an oil painting created by Ronda Simonson, one of my students.  Rhonda has been painting with me for little over a year. In this painting Rhonda was working with acrylic mediums to create a textured undersurface before she began painting with oils to finish the painting. 

This is a must see painting, which will be on display at my students art exhibition at the Greenfield  Public Library near South 60th and Layton in February.

Lily for Thinking of Summer by Judith Reidy

Now this painting I created for a private student at their home who wanted to learn paint a lily.   They followed me painting their own painting as I  developed each step along the way to this complted lily. .