Carol Marine

Still Life - Small Paintings - Oils

Friday, Saturday & Sunday,

March 18, 19 & 20, 2011

9:00 – 4:00 pm

$400.00 

Carol graduated in the fall of 2001 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art with a focus on painting. She has been featured in local and national magazines (including Southwest Art). She received a Jury’s Top 50 award at the Salon International Exhibit in 2008. Recently she moved to Bastrop, Texas, where she has set up her studio.

There is a fast growing group of people, called daily painters, who do small paintings every day, post photographs of their paintings on a blog, and then sell them through eBay, with a usual starting price of $100. In this way, many artists are finding they can grow quickly in skill and finally make a living with their art, after struggling for years in galleries and at art fairs. Carol has 3+ years of experience daily painting and teaching workshops around the US and Canada.

www.bluecloudstudios.com

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

Whether you are painting for a living or hobby, painting small and often is a powerful way to rapidly improve your skills.

Whether you are painting for a living or hobby, painting small and often is a powerful way to rapidly improve your skills. We will spend most of our time on the basic principles of design – the rules of composition, value, color, and shape – and how to apply them to small still lives. We will then experiment with color relationships using an alternative to the traditional color wheel, explore color mixing, and how each color “leans” towards others. We will push our compositions to avoid “floating” objects and learn the one, simple rule to avoid a boring still life. There will be daily demos, handouts and one-on-one critiques.

Finally, we will learn how to set up a blog, the in’s and out’s of eBay, shipping and marketing your work, etc. There will be reference material on this to take home.