Idag meddelade Myndigheten för Yrkeshögskolan att The Florence Academy of Art återigen blir en studiemedelsberättigad skola.
Det innebär att alla svenska elever får rätt till bidrag och studiemedel från CSN.
Så nu är det bara att söka in !
http://www.florenceacademyofart.com/application.php
torsdag 19 januari 2012
tisdag 10 januari 2012
Stockholm Workshop
After a little over a week living in a suitcase its kind of nice to be home.
But I have had a great time!
Stockholm is a beautyful city and it makes one ponder for excuses to go up there again...
Since my last post I revisited the National Museum with my friend, the artist Per-Elof Nilsson-Ricklund.
Paying homage to Ilja Repin again =)
But I have had a great time!
Stockholm is a beautyful city and it makes one ponder for excuses to go up there again...
Since my last post I revisited the National Museum with my friend, the artist Per-Elof Nilsson-Ricklund.
Paying homage to Ilja Repin again =)
Last weekend we had our portrait workshop in Solna. I would like to thank all of you guys who participated, it was a GREAT weekend!
Theres nothing better then a group with commited, enthusiastic and hard working people.
So thank you again and I hope to see you guys soon!
torsdag 5 januari 2012
Its been an intense start of the new year 2012! All in a good way =)
New Years I celebrated with friends in the Stockholm archipelago and it was beautyful! It was oddly enough my first time in the archipelagos, where Zorn would set out from Dalarö (we were pretty close).
So thank you, Sussie and Magnus!
Then the 3rd of januari me and Nathan got up at 04:45 to paint in TV4 Nyhetsmorgon. Im not usually the sharpest tool in the box that early in the morning but was wired even after maybe 2-3 hours of restless sleep.
We didnt get to say much, or at least not as much as I had expected but it was fine.
You can still see the clips on tv4play.se or just follow this link http://www.tv4play.se/nyheter_och_debatt/nyhetsmorgon?title=konstnarerna_nathan_och_gustav_malar_i_sandning_del_2&videoid=2131900
Here is a pic of my portrait of Timothy Atkins
Noon same day as the TV4-show I had another portrait to do with Annika Duckmark. I had met her last year in Stockholm and we agreed to have a little portrait session whenever I would be in Stockholm next time, which happend to be now!
Here it is, a small sketch =)
After we finished I went to stay with an old childhood friend who now lives in Stockholm. It was great to see him and his family. After college, the band of friends in the "Björkhagen Crew" was quickly scattered around the world for work and school and other things in life. So this was a joyful re-connection with the past!
I think I have certainly outdone myself now! I was also introduced to a new medium, Ficher & Price, and this is the magnificent portrait of my brother-of-another-mother Markus. (His kids thought it was Hercules...)
And today I have met up with Nate and prepared for our Portrait workshop in Solna. And I managed to get my hotmail-account back after having it highjacked by hackers!! But its all good now. But for all of you who received "Join my friend network..." DO NOT OPEN IT! It was not me who sent those!
Tomorrow, our buddy Per Elof is swinging by Stockholm before returning for another trimester of teaching anatomy in Florence so I think we are going together to see the Perdvijzniki show at the National Museum again! =)
New Years I celebrated with friends in the Stockholm archipelago and it was beautyful! It was oddly enough my first time in the archipelagos, where Zorn would set out from Dalarö (we were pretty close).
So thank you, Sussie and Magnus!
Then the 3rd of januari me and Nathan got up at 04:45 to paint in TV4 Nyhetsmorgon. Im not usually the sharpest tool in the box that early in the morning but was wired even after maybe 2-3 hours of restless sleep.
We didnt get to say much, or at least not as much as I had expected but it was fine.
You can still see the clips on tv4play.se or just follow this link http://www.tv4play.se/nyheter_och_debatt/nyhetsmorgon?title=konstnarerna_nathan_och_gustav_malar_i_sandning_del_2&videoid=2131900
Here is a pic of my portrait of Timothy Atkins
Noon same day as the TV4-show I had another portrait to do with Annika Duckmark. I had met her last year in Stockholm and we agreed to have a little portrait session whenever I would be in Stockholm next time, which happend to be now!
Here it is, a small sketch =)
After we finished I went to stay with an old childhood friend who now lives in Stockholm. It was great to see him and his family. After college, the band of friends in the "Björkhagen Crew" was quickly scattered around the world for work and school and other things in life. So this was a joyful re-connection with the past!
I think I have certainly outdone myself now! I was also introduced to a new medium, Ficher & Price, and this is the magnificent portrait of my brother-of-another-mother Markus. (His kids thought it was Hercules...)
And today I have met up with Nate and prepared for our Portrait workshop in Solna. And I managed to get my hotmail-account back after having it highjacked by hackers!! But its all good now. But for all of you who received "Join my friend network..." DO NOT OPEN IT! It was not me who sent those!
Tomorrow, our buddy Per Elof is swinging by Stockholm before returning for another trimester of teaching anatomy in Florence so I think we are going together to see the Perdvijzniki show at the National Museum again! =)
fredag 14 oktober 2011
Ängelholm ---> Stockholm ---> Malmö!
The past few weeks has been quiet busy.
Portrait of the Art Critic Vladimir Stasov by Ilya Repin
Me and my colleague Nathan Sowa were up in Stockholm for the Peredvizjniki-show (Ilya Repin, Isaak Levitan, Abram Archipov among other great painters) and to participate at Kista mässan and do portrait-demos.
To experience that show was close to a religious experience
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We are definitely going up to Stockholm to see this show again before they take it down. Then bringing a real camera to get some good close-ups to study.
I have also moved from Ängelholm to Malmö and have been working hard to get the place in order. So today I had my first chance to paint in my new studio space. I began a figure painting on which Im going to continue on for at least one more day so maybe I can post an image tomorrow of that.
Titus, my dog, was kind enough to lay still for five minutes. (I let him up on the couch where he usually is not allowed)
So here a little sketch of my best buddy,
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| Titus In another post I can tell you how I have set up the new studio space. |
fredag 23 september 2011
The Wanderers - Peredvizjniki
Don't miss the exhibition of the decade or maybe even the century at National museum in Stockholm!
29 Sept 2011 - 22 Jan 2012
Ilya Repin was one of the front figures of this group and this great painting has been haunting me ever since I first saw it (in a book) as a student and now its going to be on display i the National Museum in Stockholm. I can't wait to see it...
The timing could never have been better too.
Im scheduled to go up to Stockholm the very 29 of September to participate in one of the biggest art events of the year,
Konstnärernas Höstsalong 30 Sept - 2 Oct (Kista-mässan)
Click here to find out more Konstnärernas Höstsalong
29 Sept 2011 - 22 Jan 2012
Peredvizjniki
or also often called The Wanderers was a russian group of excellent painters.
If you are not familiar with them already, hold on to your hat and socks because they will surely blow you away!
Ilya Repin "Barge Haulers on the Volga" 131.5 x 281 cm"
Ilya Repin was one of the front figures of this group and this great painting has been haunting me ever since I first saw it (in a book) as a student and now its going to be on display i the National Museum in Stockholm. I can't wait to see it...
The timing could never have been better too.
Im scheduled to go up to Stockholm the very 29 of September to participate in one of the biggest art events of the year,
Konstnärernas Höstsalong 30 Sept - 2 Oct (Kista-mässan)
- Me and Nathan Sowa are going to be on stage friday, saturday and sunday doing portrait demos and you can also visit us at our stand nr: G:02
- Friday 14.00-17.00
- Saturday 15.00-18.00
- Sunday 10.00-13.00
Click here to find out more Konstnärernas Höstsalong
tisdag 20 september 2011
Finalist Award in the Boldbrush Competition
Today I´ve been struggling with a lot of paperwork from the summer and its just killing me...
So it was quiet uplifting to receive an email from the Boldbrush Competition (an online monthly painting competition) saying I got one of seven Finalist Awards in the August competition.
There was no money in the award but an upcoming feature in the online magazine Informed Collector and the honor to be acknowledged among so many talented artists from all around the world.
Here is a link to my entry http://faso.com/boldbrush/winner/23717
and here is a link to the other winners http://faso.com/boldbrush/winners/61
So thank you Trent Gudmundsen for cheering me up today !
söndag 18 september 2011
Hamburg 16 September
Im starting to write this blog in english from now and on since I get more visitors from abroad.
Last week I got a chance to visit Hamburg, Germany for to days.
It was my first visit and I had one and half day to explore what Hamburg had to offer.
So a power nap after arrival I put on the walking shoes and set out for Hamburg Kunsthalle, one of Germanys largest museums.
After getting the wrong directions at the hotel desk, it took me a little more an hour to finally find the museum but I was lucky that they were open til 9 pm on thursdays so there was plenty of time.
Hamburg Kunsthalle has the largest Caspar David Friedrich-Collection in the world and they have ,probably, one of his most famous works, "The wanderer above the sea of fog", along with smaller landscapes and studies too.
Last week I got a chance to visit Hamburg, Germany for to days.
It was my first visit and I had one and half day to explore what Hamburg had to offer.
So a power nap after arrival I put on the walking shoes and set out for Hamburg Kunsthalle, one of Germanys largest museums.
After getting the wrong directions at the hotel desk, it took me a little more an hour to finally find the museum but I was lucky that they were open til 9 pm on thursdays so there was plenty of time.
Hamburg Kunsthalle has the largest Caspar David Friedrich-Collection in the world and they have ,probably, one of his most famous works, "The wanderer above the sea of fog", along with smaller landscapes and studies too.
Caspar David Friedrich is considered to be one of Germanys greatest artists of all time. Yet today I believe many art critiques consider his works to sentimental and kitschy.
I like this painting.
They also had some paintings of Adolf Menzel, one of the most prominent german 19th-century painters
"The studio wall"
And heres a guy I didn't know about, which is strange considering the sizes he was working in...
Hans Markat, I looked him up on Wikipedia and it said that when he was studying at the academy in Vienna in 1858 he was considered to hold little talent. In 1879 he became a professor at the same academy.
Hans Markat "The Entry of Charles V into Antwerp"
Next day I walked around Hamburg with my painting gear and did a small sketch ( i would look like a stamp compared to Markats painting...) But size doesn't matter eeh?
Thank you Barbara for sending me this picture =)
And a close-up. I think I heard Fleur-de-lys about 8 times while painting this.
Then the law inforcement got tired of the tunes and showed him off....
Thank you for reading!
måndag 12 september 2011
Rönne River
Jag har en kommande utställning i mars nästa på på Galleri Moment i Ängelholm med ett tema på
Rönne Å.
Med en lånad liten vit båt med 4 arabiska fullblod som för mig uppströms kan fara omkring fritt i ån. Så i slutet på förra veckan fick vi lite uppehåll i regnet och jag tog tillfället i akt att ge mig ut på ån för kolla in lite bra ställen att måla från en båt.
Nate och Titus fick självklart följa med. Även om Titus inte gillade idén till att börja med tror jag att han uppskattade turen. Nästan lite för mycket emellanåt och hängde ut från båten för att äta bubblor.
Den här turen handlade mest om att utforska och hitta lämpliga motiv så det blev mycket puttrande och inte så mycket målande.
Väl tillbaka i hamnen vid 19.30 låg månen lite halvskygg bakom molnen och ljuset räckte precis till att göra en snabbt liten skiss.
Rönne Å.
Med en lånad liten vit båt med 4 arabiska fullblod som för mig uppströms kan fara omkring fritt i ån. Så i slutet på förra veckan fick vi lite uppehåll i regnet och jag tog tillfället i akt att ge mig ut på ån för kolla in lite bra ställen att måla från en båt.
Nate och Titus fick självklart följa med. Även om Titus inte gillade idén till att börja med tror jag att han uppskattade turen. Nästan lite för mycket emellanåt och hängde ut från båten för att äta bubblor.
Den här turen handlade mest om att utforska och hitta lämpliga motiv så det blev mycket puttrande och inte så mycket målande.
Väl tillbaka i hamnen vid 19.30 låg månen lite halvskygg bakom molnen och ljuset räckte precis till att göra en snabbt liten skiss.
torsdag 8 september 2011
Ny årstid och nya projekt!
Hösten är här med besked. Det är en tid av förändring. Ska det här bli ett lyckat försök med att bli en flitigare bloggare?
För mig har bloggandet på något sätt hamnat i samma kategori som att träna. Det är svårt att komma igång men när man väl gör det inser man hur stimulerande det är...
Den här veckan har också visat sig värd att berätta om.
I helgen bestämde vi (Jag och Nathan) oss för att göra en liten målarvideo.
Så i veckan har filmat när vi målar varsitt "Alla Prima"-porträtt under ca. 3 timmar.
(Alla Prima = färgen hinner aldrig torka utan man målar allt på en gång)
Med två kameror har vi filmat både duk och palette.
Nu ska filmen redigeras lite och ljudspår ska med där vi förklarar vad vi gör hela tiden.
Nate målar av Emilio
Detta är alltså inte det första alternativet till fredags-mys-filmen utan vänder sig till målarfanatiker som oss själva =)
Som Nate sa: "Its about as exciting as watching grass grow"
Den stora Release-festen kommer gå av stapeln på Konstnärernas Höstsalong
i Kista den 30 Sept - 2 Okt.
Då kommer både jag och Nate att måla Alla Prima-porträtt på scen och sälja DVD:n.
Vill ni kan ni även förbeställa en DVD genom min mail gustav@gustavsundin.com
(Priset kommer hamna mellan ca. 100 - 139 kr)
Mitt färdiga porträtt av Lolo
För mig har bloggandet på något sätt hamnat i samma kategori som att träna. Det är svårt att komma igång men när man väl gör det inser man hur stimulerande det är...
Den här veckan har också visat sig värd att berätta om.
I helgen bestämde vi (Jag och Nathan) oss för att göra en liten målarvideo.
Så i veckan har filmat när vi målar varsitt "Alla Prima"-porträtt under ca. 3 timmar.
(Alla Prima = färgen hinner aldrig torka utan man målar allt på en gång)
Med två kameror har vi filmat både duk och palette.
Nu ska filmen redigeras lite och ljudspår ska med där vi förklarar vad vi gör hela tiden.
Detta är alltså inte det första alternativet till fredags-mys-filmen utan vänder sig till målarfanatiker som oss själva =)
Som Nate sa: "Its about as exciting as watching grass grow"
Den stora Release-festen kommer gå av stapeln på Konstnärernas Höstsalong
i Kista den 30 Sept - 2 Okt.
Då kommer både jag och Nate att måla Alla Prima-porträtt på scen och sälja DVD:n.
Vill ni kan ni även förbeställa en DVD genom min mail gustav@gustavsundin.com
(Priset kommer hamna mellan ca. 100 - 139 kr)
torsdag 5 maj 2011
Harmony and Presence
Very interesting talk, Dr Jill Bolte Taylor brainresearcher had a Stroke of genius
On TED.com
Is happiness the same as presence?...
(I know, very brief post and its been a while)
Gustav
On TED.com
Is happiness the same as presence?...
(I know, very brief post and its been a while)
Gustav
torsdag 31 mars 2011
Post-Posting from the america trip
Well, I have noticed that some images will not show any longer. That is due to an insufficient apple device called Ipad with its insufficient Apps...
I will try to recover those images and post them again, from a real computer this time.
I found a few sketches from Saint augustine and Charleston I havent posted before so, here they are.
I will try to recover those images and post them again, from a real computer this time.
I found a few sketches from Saint augustine and Charleston I havent posted before so, here they are.
Long Branch Creek outside Charleston
The Cathedral-Basilica in St. Augustine
onsdag 30 mars 2011
Dolomites , Italy
Here are a few recent sketches from the Dolomites in Italy. I spent a week in Canazei and borrowed a snowboard and a backpack for the painting gear, got a skipass that allowed me to explore this natural heritage.
tisdag 18 januari 2011
Fort Lauderdale (no Everglades)
The last three days we spent in Key West, probably the biggest disappointment on this trip...
My expectations and mental image of the island were completely crushed in our first day. It's a tourist trap with all it's components, sky high prices for crap (hotel, food etc), cheap t-shirts with sex-jokes, a train on wheels, adultstores, mass-produced art in the galleries, you name it!
So we cancelled the fourth night at our hotel (would have cancelled more if we didn't have to pay for it).
When doing some more thorough research on the web we realized we had already passed through the Everglades. I think I had a different image of what the Everglades would look like...
And if we wanted to see the Everglades again we would have had to backtrack our path quiet a bit.
So instead we decided to head to Fort Lauderdale where we met the only swede who has ever blown up an american battleship!
It's true.
As a part of an artificial reef-program the old battleship was blown up outside of Pensacola. Today it serves as shelter for fish and attraction for sport-divers. The discovery channel made a show about the sinking so you can probably find it on YouTube.
Fort Lauderdale seems really nice so we decided to stay here tonight. I saw some galleries when we drove through the city so I hope to see some good paintings tomorrow.
I haven't had many good opportunities to paint lately which is very frustrating but I sincerely hope to do wip out the brushes soon.
- Posted by Gustav
My expectations and mental image of the island were completely crushed in our first day. It's a tourist trap with all it's components, sky high prices for crap (hotel, food etc), cheap t-shirts with sex-jokes, a train on wheels, adultstores, mass-produced art in the galleries, you name it!
So we cancelled the fourth night at our hotel (would have cancelled more if we didn't have to pay for it).
When doing some more thorough research on the web we realized we had already passed through the Everglades. I think I had a different image of what the Everglades would look like...
And if we wanted to see the Everglades again we would have had to backtrack our path quiet a bit.
So instead we decided to head to Fort Lauderdale where we met the only swede who has ever blown up an american battleship!
It's true.
As a part of an artificial reef-program the old battleship was blown up outside of Pensacola. Today it serves as shelter for fish and attraction for sport-divers. The discovery channel made a show about the sinking so you can probably find it on YouTube.
Fort Lauderdale seems really nice so we decided to stay here tonight. I saw some galleries when we drove through the city so I hope to see some good paintings tomorrow.
I haven't had many good opportunities to paint lately which is very frustrating but I sincerely hope to do wip out the brushes soon.
- Posted by Gustav
Location:Fort Lauderdale
måndag 17 januari 2011
måndag 3 januari 2011
Happy New Year!
I apologize for not posting in a while but I have had very little or no access to the information superhighway until reaching civilization today.
We have been driving a few miles, from L.A through the Nevada desert to SinCity and then to Grand Canyon for a couple of days before heading to Santa Fe and today we arrived in Albuquerque! (long sentence there..)
Here follows a few recent sketches
Nevada desert approx. 5x10 cm
Nevada desert II approx. 7x7cm
And for a landscape painter few places are as majestic to paint as the
Grand Canyon.
Not only was it grand it was also the coldest conditions I have ever painted in
(-12 Fahrenheit = -24 Celsius).
I wasn't sure if the paint was going to stick to the canvas when I set out the first morning. So please don't judge me to hard on the drawing. My only goal was to capture a few color notes, then I will use, I going to say it!, PHOTOGRAFS!, for drawing reference. :)
The night before I made a small copy of an american painter, Clyde Aspevig, to help me figure out some values in distant landscape, see below.
Color-sketch-copy after Clyde Aspevig
Then here are two colorsketches from Grand Canyon
South Rim approx. 12x30 cm
By Matherpoint approx. 10x15 cm
Until next post, Happy New Year!!
We have been driving a few miles, from L.A through the Nevada desert to SinCity and then to Grand Canyon for a couple of days before heading to Santa Fe and today we arrived in Albuquerque! (long sentence there..)
Here follows a few recent sketches
Nevada desert approx. 5x10 cm
Nevada desert II approx. 7x7cm
And for a landscape painter few places are as majestic to paint as the
Grand Canyon.
Not only was it grand it was also the coldest conditions I have ever painted in
(-12 Fahrenheit = -24 Celsius).
I wasn't sure if the paint was going to stick to the canvas when I set out the first morning. So please don't judge me to hard on the drawing. My only goal was to capture a few color notes, then I will use, I going to say it!, PHOTOGRAFS!, for drawing reference. :)
The night before I made a small copy of an american painter, Clyde Aspevig, to help me figure out some values in distant landscape, see below.
Color-sketch-copy after Clyde Aspevig
Then here are two colorsketches from Grand Canyon
South Rim approx. 12x30 cm
By Matherpoint approx. 10x15 cm
Until next post, Happy New Year!!
Location:Nevada & Grand Canyon
lördag 25 december 2010
Carmel
So since my last entry we have been around winecountry in Napa and Healdsburg visiting a few galleries and my friend, Alexander Harris again.
Then we directed our wheels south and visited another old friend from Florence Academy, Nate Taylor, in Santa Cruz.
We stayed one night with Nate, his girlfriend Grace and 2 year old train-iac Quinn, catching up, inspecting Nates studio space, his little garden, drank wine, ate pizza and played chess.
Nate Taylor at his house in Santa Cruz
Then another few hours south we finally had a little breakthrough in the weather!
We spent a few days in Carmel, a small town just south of Monterey, where we stayed for Christmas.
It reminds me a lot of Båstad in Sweden. A small town with a big sport event, golf instead of tennis this time.
Carmel had a strong artist colony going in the early 1900s. And there are still a few local artists around and now there are tons of galleries too.
I was running around the galleries for a day and a half and still missed a few good ones. (some of them were closed for the holidays).
I found two local artists I liked a lot, one plein air landscape painter,Jesse Powell and a sculptor Richard Macdonald.(google them to find their websites)
Today we drove down to Santa Barbara, driving in the wettest weather ever through the Big Sur...
At times it felt like we just drove through clouds, of all the amazing scenery along that part of highway 1 we saw only a fraction...(still beautiful though)
Rainy day in Big Sur
Here's a sketch from Stewarts Cove, Carmel approx 20x25 cm
So we spent Christmas in Carmel and Hilda gave me these books, great reading material for an artist :)
Then we directed our wheels south and visited another old friend from Florence Academy, Nate Taylor, in Santa Cruz.
We stayed one night with Nate, his girlfriend Grace and 2 year old train-iac Quinn, catching up, inspecting Nates studio space, his little garden, drank wine, ate pizza and played chess.
Nate Taylor at his house in Santa Cruz
Then another few hours south we finally had a little breakthrough in the weather!
We spent a few days in Carmel, a small town just south of Monterey, where we stayed for Christmas.
It reminds me a lot of Båstad in Sweden. A small town with a big sport event, golf instead of tennis this time.
Carmel had a strong artist colony going in the early 1900s. And there are still a few local artists around and now there are tons of galleries too.
I was running around the galleries for a day and a half and still missed a few good ones. (some of them were closed for the holidays).
I found two local artists I liked a lot, one plein air landscape painter,Jesse Powell and a sculptor Richard Macdonald.(google them to find their websites)
Today we drove down to Santa Barbara, driving in the wettest weather ever through the Big Sur...
At times it felt like we just drove through clouds, of all the amazing scenery along that part of highway 1 we saw only a fraction...(still beautiful though)
Rainy day in Big Sur
Here's a sketch from Stewarts Cove, Carmel approx 20x25 cm
So we spent Christmas in Carmel and Hilda gave me these books, great reading material for an artist :)
måndag 20 december 2010
Frustration...
Today we drove from Calistoga in Napa valley to visit my friend Alexander Harris in Healdsburg. We meant to stay for lunch and then drive down to Santa Cruz but when we realized it was going to be a long drive and with really bad weather we decided to stay the night.
We got to see the gallery that Alex and his father has, now under reconstruction, and tonight we are going to check out Tron at the cinema here.
I'm coming to a point where Im understanding the weather is not going to get much better, after all its winter in California. So I have to come up with something to make this work. So far I have had the chance to visit some really good galleries but I havent had many chances to paint which is really frustrating.
We got to see the gallery that Alex and his father has, now under reconstruction, and tonight we are going to check out Tron at the cinema here.
I'm coming to a point where Im understanding the weather is not going to get much better, after all its winter in California. So I have to come up with something to make this work. So far I have had the chance to visit some really good galleries but I havent had many chances to paint which is really frustrating.
fredag 17 december 2010
Arte Verissima, Oakland
One great part of this trip is being able to catch up with old friends and colleagues. Yesterday we left San Francisco and stopped by Andrew Ameral in his studio Arte Verissima, on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland.
Here he is teaching ecorche' anatomy and drawing/painting in the realist academic tradition as well as he is instructing at San Francisco Art University's masters program.
Andrew was also one of my teachers in Florence teaching both anatomy and drawing/painting.
Check out www.ameralart.com
Andrews studio
Arte Verissima model room
Here he is teaching ecorche' anatomy and drawing/painting in the realist academic tradition as well as he is instructing at San Francisco Art University's masters program.
Andrew was also one of my teachers in Florence teaching both anatomy and drawing/painting.
Check out www.ameralart.com
Andrews studio
Arte Verissima model room
onsdag 15 december 2010
San Francisco
Yesterday we arrived in San Francisco again after another 3 flights and checked in on Hotel North Beach, right next to Larry Flynts Hustler club and Mr Bings cocktail bar, 45 S a night.
Today we met up with my friend from school whom I havent seen in 3 years, Alexander Harris. He showed us around town and we visited a few of the galleries round the bay area, had Ghiradelli Icecream, drove down the winding roads of Lombard and had great Italian food at Caffe Sport close to our hotel.
In two days we are going to drive up to Healdsburg where Alex lives, an hour and a half north of SF to see wine country and hopefully if the weather lets us paint a few sketches.
Vain attempt on a sunset!
We have left Maui and are back in San Francisco. What I liked best with Maui were the amazing cloudformations that would occur everyday over the highlands. Here is a sketch looking at west Maui when the sun was setting, making this dumping raincloud glow. It looked like the cloud was burning from the inside!
Im going to use this sketch to do another painting where Im going to try out some compromises and a few modifications in composition and values.
West Maui by sunset approx 25x35 cm oil on canvas
It was raining for a couple of days so we took a ride to visit some galleries in Lahaina and in Wailea.
There were two pretty good galleries, one called The Village Galleries and the other Lahaina Gallery.
In the Lahaina Gallery I had the chance to met to a really talented plein air painter, Ronaldo Macedo.
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