2013 September classes and Patzcuaro trip

 A Hat seller in Patzcuaro He was hanging out in the street called Once (11) patios - lots of Textiles, Pottery, Copper, Jewelry just a ton of crafts being made in this area. it's so interesting to see and paint. We had mostly crummy weather but we did do 2 paintings while there. All the buildings are white with red trim and lower part of walls. And signs must have the first letter of each word Red and the rest in black letters

We made it out to Janitzio Is. and wandered about. We - Mary, Tom and I had a great meal in one of the island restaurants overlooking more islands on Lake Patzcuaro. The Purepecha natives have beautiful hand embroidered clothing they wear. We had just decided on our painting subject when it started pouring buckets. We had a pretty soggy ride back on the ferry.

Here's an example of a typical store, red and white with tile roof tops. This one is selling the best refrescos in town apparently!

In a rare moment of sun this vendor looked good with his orange umbrella. As you can see from the sky it was a short moment of light and shadow.

A scene from Janitzio Island just before it started raining. Lovely scenery for painting.

 Classes continue this week as before on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 10 til 1 pm. Sorry you weren't able to join us in Patzcuaro but we will probably do another trip there.

Tom painting on our first day in Patzcuaro. Just love those tile roofs. Happy September painting everyone.

Rancho del Sol Dorado Tomorrow and Tues. only class next week.

Just another great day in San Miguel

 

We'll be going out to Rancho del sol Dorado tomorrow Sept. 1st Meeting at the gallery at 2:30. Looks like the weather is going to be good . Should be fun painting ranch scenes in the late afternoon light. We had a fine summery day today.
Next week only .....classes in the studio on Tuesday Sept 3rd , only. 10 until 1 pm. All mediums.
 Thursday a small group of us will be going to Patzcuaro for a few days of painting plein air.
 The week following will be business as usual.....Mon.Sept. 9th plein air Wed. Sept 11, wc.'s Thurs.12th & Fri.Sept 13th  oils or acrylics. Happy Painting!

Rancho trip plein air cancelled Aug 26

Nopal in Flower

Plein air at el Rancho del Sol Dorado cancelled today. It would have been a great afternoon and sunset but the weather hasn't aided in our plans today.... Another time . We'll  get there yet.

A painting trip to Patzcuaro is planned for Sept 5th to the 8th. If you would like to join our plein air trip let me know. We have some economical rooms available.  
Happy painting everyone where ever you are! Donna

Plein air on sunday Aug 18th

We got rained out last week, so we're going to try again for Sunday morning....9:30 starting from my place 22 Cuesta de Loreto , on my calle with no name (Sin Nombre) Interior #1
 In other words we are the first house (green)w/cream trim) on a little street coming off Cuesta de Loreto at #22.an orange place on corner. The hillside overlooking all of San Miguel is awesome.

This the start of Cuesta de Loreto where it comes off Salida a Quertero. On the right is a pink stone Capilla or chapel. It is narrow at the entrance but widens out a bit as you go up. See you Sunday

Donna

August update

A neighbor lady passing by my scene

This summer has just been so busy. Many students new and returnees. Our move to a new place in San Miguel has certainly taken up a huge chunk of our time. Just our casa not the gallery.
Monday we painted plein air up on our new hill, painting our neighbors colorful houses and met some of our neighbors. Very nice folks.

And here's the completed painting "Looking up Cuesta de Loreto" 9 x 12" oil

Moi  in front of my painted scene on Loreto

Tom painting the scene  looking down Cuesta de Loreto

The people who walk this street daily are very spry!

A couple of kids curious about us painting their "hood", the funky soup Tee shirt was very cute as were both of them.

This older lady 80 yrs old and her daughter. Thought their house was" feo", ugly , til we came along and thought it was beautiful. What an abstract!- better in life then this photo.

Mary painting the colorful abstract house.

One of the neighbor girls, so sweet.

Here's her sister

And little brother-  all smiles.

Next week plein air on Sunday. We'll be in our neighborhood Cuesta de Loreto but we'll paint from the hillside overlooking Atascadero and the city. We'll meet at our place and walk from their.
 email me or phone for more details if you want to come. ( 9:30 am ) at 22 Cuesta de Loreto Int. #1- grey green colored house with off white trim , take a left at the corner of Cuesta de Loreto at #22 (orange house) the second house in from the corner is ours. Sorry our street has no name ( sin nombre)!  Happy painting everyone-  Donna

Summer Art Classes new schedule and Day 1 Tom's Demo for workshop

"La Entrada Posada Carmina"  watercolor - I've always loved this entrance way to a hotel on Cuna de Allende in San Miguel.....one of my favorites and the first time I've painted it.

Some changes to the summer art classes, we have now added Thurs. to the schedule.
Monday plein air location announced weekly meet on location at 9:30 am
Wednesday  - in the studio WATERCOLORS  - 10 til 1pm
Thursday - in the studio   OILS or ACRYLICS - 10 til  1pm
Friday  -in the studio    OILS or ACRYLICS   -  10 til 1pm
Happy painting.
Tom and I have been leading a plein air workshop this week and due to all the rain we've mostly been in the studio. Tomorrow we plan to be out on location. here's a few pics from Tom's demo.

Tom's demo 1st day with Dan and Mary

Dan and Mary watching intently

Here's the demo start . Painted on a mid grey acrylic ground. He started by filling in the light  shapes with white. The darks were then painted thinly into the mid grey areas, very effectively creating the 3 dimensional aspect of this piece.With this established value pattern you could then start concentrating on the color.
 

Walkway  Janitzio Is. Patzcuaro - here is the demo in color. It's almost finished. There are a couple figures in the center to be developed a little more. You can really see from the intial start how faithful the color is to the original values of the  under painting. This was a great demo to watch and everyone learned so much.
And HERE is the finished painting below. WOW!
"JANITIZIO VENDOR"  9 x 12" oil on panel

2013 JUNE art classes in tte studio

 Some of  my summer students at work in the studio this morning. Anya, Kathy and Emma. A very diverse group from abstract to traditional.

Here's Emma our young student's version of a Panamanian "Mola" She had fun with this one.Great color selection. This is Emma's 3rd summer visit for art classes with me.

 And coming up next week, San Miguel is again launching a First Fri. of the month Art Walk. It will begin on July 5th 4 to 9pm. Hope you can come by for a snack or refreshment and see what we've been doing.