August 8, 2008: Newsletter 18

In This Issue Featured Artist Gotta Have Goals Schultz Demonstration Welcome New Artists! Paint the Maine Coast Blandino Exhibition What Work is This? Obviously!  Featured Artist Eli Cedrone Professional Visual Artist Award Winning Medium: Oil Boston, Massachusetts Eli Cedrone Fine Art Cedrone Red Easel Gallery ********** Red Easel Pages GALLERY MAGAZINE RED EASEL HOME Artist Organizations Art Galleries Art Leagues Artists Supporting Artists Books & More Emerging Artists Quotes & Inspiration Link Exchange Program Advertising Categories (Articles, Red Easel Product Specials, and Comments) Art Festivals Art Instruction Artist Resources Red Easel Specials So You Think You Know Art? Stories from the Studio The Painter's Keys Contact information Susan@redeasel.com :: 704.708.9286 (H) :: 704.771.5830 (M) Greetings! Are you staying cool?  Is your air conditioning unit choking trying to keep your house cool?  Mine too.  Thank goodness for fans.  They are running 24/7 in my house. We have many new and wonderful artists to introduce you to in this newsletter and I hope you will stroll thru their galleries. Last month I asked you all if you had tried a new medium and nobody answered me :(  You'd think you were busy in your studio or somethin'.   I'd still like to hear about it if you did so I can write an article about your experiences - no matter how frustrating. Meet Eli Cedrone, our Featured Artist.  Eli Cedrone has spent her lifetime creating. Upon graduation from the School of Art & Design in Boston, she studied art in Italy and at the MFA. Her professional career began as an art director in 1982 at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising, in Bermuda. This was followed by work as a designer and illustrator in Laguna Beach, CA. She is a popular workshop instructor and her work is in private collections in the US and abroad. "Major influences include; Nicolai Fechin,Matisse, Joaquin Sorolla, Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargentand the Bay Area figurative painters. Learn more about Eli at her website. Don't forget to check out Frame Warehouse.  They are offering a 10% discount on their already incredible low prices on frames to all Red Easel Professional Visual Artist Gallery members.  They have done a great job framing my artwork and have a wonderful selection.  Just give them your name and they will check out your gallery on Red Easel and give you a big 10% discount on all your framing needs. This painting is from Eli Cedrone - "Joe's Bar Boston" 11x14 Oil on Panel.  You can view more of Eli's remarkable  artwork by going to her Red Easel Gallery Susan Vaughn Editor-in-Chief Red Easel      **************************************** You Gotta Have Goals By: Maggie Stiefvater Professional Visual Artist Published & Award Winning Medium: Oil Montross, Virginia USA Maggie Stiefvater Author & Artist Stiefvater Red Easel Gallery Regular readers will know that I am in love with goals. If goals were a vegetable, I would pick bushels of them, eat them until I was sick, and then freeze the rest so that I could have a continuous supply of goals through the cold months. One thing I have learned about goals, however, is that, like vegetables, if you don't use 'em or freeze 'em right away, they go bad. Some of them go bad in a spectacular fashion. Like if you vow to lose 20 pounds at the beginning of the year, forget about the goal, and then discover Haagen-Daas ice cream sometime in June . . . not only is that goal to lose weight gone bad, but it's bad like stinking in the bottom of your crisper drawer bad. With rotten goal juice eeking around it. And other goals go bad in a sort of failure to stay relevant way. Like if you suddenly crave sweet potatoes and buy a ton of them. If you don't cook all of them, you'll have those few lonely ones left over. They'll never go bad in a fantastically awful way, but you'll end up throwing them away after eight months because you just don't want them anymore. So goals should be checked often and the ones that are really timely ought to be attacked immediately. Continue reading "You Gotta Have Goals" at Red Easel **************************************** Dan Schultz Painting Demonstration By Dan Schultz Professional Visual Artist Medium: Oil, Charcoal Colorado Springs, Colorado USA Dan Schultz Fine Art Schultz Red Easel Gallery West Wind, Oil on Linen, 16x28 For this studio painting I used Claessens double oil primed linen canvas, #15 (my usual painting surface). This painting, as with most of my larger paintings, was completed using a photograph as my reference. (My wife, Sarah, is the lovely lady in the photo. Somehow I doubt she would have been very excited to pose in the middle of a field long enough for me to do the painting from life.) Step 1: When doing a painting of this size (or larger), I am most comfortable starting with a fairly detailed drawing of my composition. In this case, I use vine charcoal directly on the canvas. I make sure to take as much time as necessary on this step since it will provide me with the direction I will follow for the rest of the painting. As I draw, I take careful measurements using my reference photo to make sure everything ends up the right size and in the right place. (On a side note, I carefully measure when painting smaller sizes too. I just don't necessarily do a charcoal drawing first.) I always double-check my drawing by looking at it in a mirror. Somehow seeing the image in reverse makes it easier to see my mistakes. Continue with this demonstration at Red Easel **************************************** Welcome New Artists! July, 2008 I think Red Easel has the best artists in the world.  Then again, I'm partial of course.  But, if you look at our gallery you may just agree that they are phenomenal.  We sure do have a lot of "B's" in our gallery.  Must be "B" for Best Artists, don't you think? Hey!  I have braggin' rights! Let's introduce you to our New Artists... Ed Bronstein Professional Visual Artist Medium: Oil Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA Ed Bronstein Fine Art Gallery Bronstein Red Easel Gallery Anne Hudec, AFCA Professional Visual Artist Published & Award Winning Medium: Watercolor Victoria, British Columbia Canada Anne Hudec Fine Art Hudec Red Easel Gallery Francine Bradette Professional Visual Artist Medium: Acrylic, Watercolour Montreal, Quebec Canada Bradette Fine Art Gallery Bradette Red Easel Gallery Carole Stevens Bibisi Professional Visual Artist, Author, Poet, and Musician Published Medium: PrismaColor Pencils & Markers Bradenton, FL USA Carole Stevens Bibisi Fine Art Bibisi Red Easel Gallery Rada Bukhman Professional Visual Artist Medium: Oil Vancouver, British Columbia Canada Bukhman Fine Art Bukhman Red Easel Gallery Susan Blackwood Professional Visual Artist Published & Award Winning Medium: Oil, Watercolor Bozeman, Montana USA Blackwood Fine Art Gallery Blackwood Red Easel Gallery Howard Friedland Professional Visual Artist Published & Award Winning Medium: Oil Bozeman, Montana USA Howard Friedland Fine Art Friedland Red Easel Gallery Carmelo Blandino Professional Visual Artist Published & Award Winning Medium: Oil, Encaustic Canada Blandino Fine Art Gallery Blandino Red Easel Gallery Maggie Stiefvater Professional Visual Artist Published & Award Winning Medium: Oil Montross, Virginia USA Maggie Stiefvater Author & Artist Stiefvater Red Easel Gallery (Read Maggie's article "You Gotta Have Goals" at Red Easel! Visit more of our wonderful Red Easel Artists here **************************************** Paint the Maine Coast in Watercolor Now this looks like it will be a fun 4 days in Maine.  If you have nothing else to do in mid-August, this may just be what you need to renew your creative juices.   -Susan WHERE: Rockland, Maine WHEN: August 18-22, 2008 WHO IS TEACHING: Instructor:  Bill Teitsworth, NWS ABOUT: This summer take your painting to the next level with award-winning artist/instructor Bill Teitsworth, on location in beautiful coastal Maine. CONTACT: For information contact Coastal Maine Art Workshops, info@CoastalMaineArtWorkshops.com Emanuel-Teitsworth Studio **************************************** Carmelo Blandino Exhibition Galerie De Bellefeuile Hello everyone, I would like to announce that I will be exhibiting my most recent paintings entitled MEMORIA, exhibited at Galerie De Bellefeuile on July 31st to August 11 2008. Vernissage will be held on the 31st of July, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. I will be in attendance. Memoria is a continuity in my exploration of meditative landscape paintings and stylish, gargantuan depictions of flowers, both subjects influenced by 17th century painting and rendered in encaustic medium. For a preview of the show, you may click on the link: GdB Carmelo Blandino or visit my personal site: Blandino Fine Art or better yet simply stop by the gallery and see the works live where they are presently being displayed for pre sales. For those of you who will be in Montreal that evening, I look forward to seeing you there, opening night. It feels good to go back to Montreal, a city that has inspired my artistry time and through again. Please join me, bring some friends and art lovers, and lets make this a fun evening of art, connection and laughter. See you there! Carmelo Blandino What Work is This? It has been a while since we played this game.  But it sure is fun.  At least I hope you think so.  Here is a beautiful work and the artist was groundbreaking in his/her style throughout the 20th Century.  This great and very recognizable artist passed away in 1986. Do you know who this artist is?   Take a guess.  The first comment I receive who can tell me the name of the painting AND the artist and a little bit about both, will receive 1 month of free advertising on Red Easel with a 125x125 Ad Banner in our sidebar.  And, if you don't know how to create a banner, or need help, we will do that for you too.  Now that's a deal!  So speak up my Artist friends!  What Work is This? CONGRATULATIONS TO BILL TEITSWORTH for recognizing this painting as being by Georgia O'Keefe, called "Petunia."  Bill wins 1 month of banner ad placement on Red Easel and I hope our readers will visit his gallery and partake in his magnificent artwork.    At least once a month I will have a contest for our artists to win valuable ad space on Red Easel.  Hey!  You can't beat a free promotion, right?  I am going to write an article this week about Georgia O'Keefe and her works.  I love sinking my brain into some art history and sharing it with my readers.  We should never stop growing and learning.  It is a lifetime adventure to exercise the brain = creatively and intellectually. Thanks for participating, Bill! Bill Teitsworth Professional Visual Artist Medium: Acrylic, Watercolor Moscow, Pennsylvania USA Emanuel-Teitsworth Studio Teitsworth Red Easel Gallery Susan Vaughn Editor-in-Chief Red Easel Obviously.... We have had a busy month at Red Easel.  That, and we're having our entire house painted.  Feel free to visit my homeowner experience at Raisin Toast.  It has nothing to do with art, but it is life - ours.   Directory Listing Promotion Red Easel welcomes submissions by professional visual artists for a directory listing and gallery portfolio.  The first 100 artists will receive a free listing and gallery of 5 images with a link to their website.  You better hurry!  As of today, when I finish adding the new artists on the list for August, we will have 87 artists.  So hurry and send me your images and information! Send the following information to directory@redeasel.com: Name Medium Website URL City, State Country and at least 3 images for review. Submission does not guarantee inclusion in the directory.  Directory listings are juried into Red Easel by our panel of Professional Visual Artists. This painting is by Eli Cedrone "Camerata" 11x17 Oil on Canvas.  You can view more of Eli's work at Red Easel. Susan

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