As part of our effort to continue to help artists and art galleries thrive, we’re proud to bring you this week’s “Virtual Gallery Walk.” Browse the artwork below and click the image itself to learn more about it, including how to contact the gallery.
Want to see your gallery featured in an upcoming Virtual Gallery Walk? Contact us at [email protected] to advertise today. Don’t delay, as spaces are first come, first served, and availability is limited.
From the Fine Art Connoisseur September/October 2022 Editor’s Note:
Looking Forward
It is hard to believe 10 months have passed since we concluded the second edition of Realism Live — a virtual art convention that teaches realist techniques for painting and drawing portraits, figures, landscapes, flowers, other still lifes, and more. Like the inaugural edition in 2020, last year’s was a huge success, and now the team from Fine Art Connoisseur and RealismToday.com are busy finalizing Realism Live 3.0. 
As ever, this event has been designed for artists and enthusiasts at all levels of experience, from the highly accomplished to those just starting out. Beginner’s Day will occur on Wednesday, November 9, and the main program will follow on November 10, 11, and 12.
By press time we were thrilled to have secured for our faculty some of the most outstanding artists in the field, including Clyde Aspevig, Todd Casey, Michelle Dunaway, Daniel Graves, Lisa Egeli, Rose Frantzen, Cornelia Hernes, Alex Kelly, Michael Mentler, Chuck Morris, Ned Mueller, John Pototschnik, Sarah Sedwick, Terry Strickland, Dustin Van Wechel, and Glenn Vilppu. More renowned talents are being added to the roster every week.
Beginner’s Day will help all viewers — not just novices — get to the next level, opening their eyes and enhancing confidence in their ability to paint and draw. On offer for the following three days are art instruction demonstrations, critiques, and roundtable discussions among artists and other experts.
For all sorts of reasons (not just pandemic-related ones), the art world has gone digital in a big way. Once again, Realism Live participants will use Streamline Publishing’s sophisticated community platform to interact; it is set up so that you deal only with our faculty and your fellow registrants. This is not an event open to the general public. Our participants have hailed from 30 countries, and now we are expecting an even broader turnout.
The beauty of it all, of course, is that everyone can participate safely from their own homes and studios. Our previous registrants have learned from the faculty, built a community and support network for themselves, and made lifelong friendships. They tell us that what they learned has kept their work looking real, but not like a photograph; that they can give their impression of a scene without going too far; that they feel better equipped to convey the truth in their own artistic voice; and that they have created a signature look. Best of all, they continue to grow and learn from what they experienced. These are impressive results after only four days together.
Please visit realismlive.com now to learn more and register, and see you this November, at the latest.
P.S. If you can’t make the actual “live” dates, don’t worry: replays are available to all who sign up (but not to those who don’t).
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Laura E. Pollak: Abstract Realism, combines my love of Graphic Design, with vibrant colors and dramatic lighting.
I love pastel for its permanence and vibrancy. It is immediate, luminous and direct.
Like a dialogue between friends, art must be shared and seen in order to close the circle and convey the idea. I invite you to join me on this journey of discovery.
To see more of Laura’s work, visit:
www.laurapollak.com
VEFA Gallery
Hilbert Museum
The Art Shop (336) 855-8500
Carolyn Lindsey: Carolyn captures the feeling of sunlight in her impressionist painting “South Porch,” which will be exhibited during the American Impressionist Society National show in Boulder Colorado at Mary Williams Fine Art through September. Plein air studies are the inspiration, information, and guide for the subsequent studio paintings.
In October she will be plein air painting in Venice.
To see more of Carolyn’s work, visit:
www.carolynlindsey.com
American Impressionist Society
How do you find inspiration?
Jill Banks: Inspiration is everywhere. I think it’s following me around. I’m fascinated by people. Animals too. In 2011, I took on a crazy project to paint 100 Faces in 100 Days – from life of anyone who agreed to sit for me. That project was filled my head with stories to last several lifetimes.
It was sad when people stopped showing up at my studio door daily. That was the major impetus for launching into painting plein air on location in the spots where they gather. If they weren’t coming to me, I was going to find them.
Each year – other than 2020 and 2021 – I’ve traveled overseas on personal painting trips to explore and capture life in oils. It was a joy to return to Paris this August, setting up my easel all over the city. The hardest daily decision was which direction to head once out the apartment door. That eleven-day trip produced at least a start on 18 paintings with some real beauties among them and more to come.
The rest of the year I find inspiration closer to home (sometimes in it), on domestic personal painting trips (like Key West) or during plein air competitions in the US.
To see more of Jill’s work, visit:
www.jillbanks.com
Lori Putnam: Like a personal invitation, Lori Putnam’s work calls its viewers to enter the setting, walk around a bit, take a seat, and enjoy the vacation. Each piece has its unique sense of movement and mood. Now she is sharing 25 new paintings from around the world in an upcoming exhibit, “Far from Home,” opening at The Customs House Museum in Clarksville, TN, on November 3. An artist’s reception is scheduled for November 17.
To see more of Lori’s work, visit:
Loriputnam.com
1225gallery.com
Forfineart.com
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David Lussier: David Lussier is an award-winning impressionist and nationally recognized plein air painter and workshop instructor. He is a painter in the purist sense of the word. In his poetic and intimate oil landscapes he strives to capture the essence and sense of place of his subject matter. His use of bold broad brushwork brings the surfaces to life and begs the viewer to return for a second look. David is known for his sophisticated color sense, poetic brushwork and his ability to convey emotion in a painting. His ‘Less Is More’ approach to painting has garnered him numerous accolades throughout his long career in plein air painting.
To see more of David’s work, visit:
David Lussier Gallery
Folly Cove Fine Art
The Laffer Gallery
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As part of our effort to continue to help artists and art galleries thrive, we’re proud to bring you this week’s “Virtual Gallery Walk.” Browse the artwork below and click the image itself to learn more about it, including how to contact the gallery.
Want to see your gallery featured in an upcoming Virtual Gallery Walk? Contact us at [email protected] to advertise today. Don’t delay, as spaces are first come, first served, and availability is limited.
Always New: The Posters of Jules Chéret
Milwaukee Art Museum
mam.org
through October 16, 2022
On view at the Milwaukee Art Museum is “Always New: The Posters of Jules Chéret,” the first U.S. exhibition devoted to the “father of the modern poster.”
Curator Nikki Otten has drawn more than 100 posters from the permanent collection, now America’s largest Chéret holding thanks to a 2021 donation by James and Susee Wiechmann. In the late 19th century, Chéret transformed Paris’s walls into what some called a “museum in open air,” designing and printing thousands of large advertisements for every possible product and service.
Ultimately he elevated commercial lithography to an art form and in 1890 was rewarded with a knighthood in the Legion of Honor. The accompanying 240-page catalogue is the first English-language publication on him.
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Valued at $4500, this is a rare opportunity to acquire an original work by John MacDonald.
MacDonald has donated “Dusk Light” (oil, 12 x 16 in.) to the American Tonalist Society (ATS), of which he is a member. Please contact the ATS for more details on this opportunity.
Proceeds benefit the ATS’s upcoming show, “Shades of Grey II” at the Salmagundi Club in New York City, April 28-May 7, 2023.
Tickets may be purchased via PayPal: [email protected].
The amount paid will indicate the number of tickets purchased:
1 ticket = $15
2 tickets = $25
5 tickets = $50
The email drawing will be held November 1, 2022 by ATS Club President Mary Erickson. All questions should be directed the email listed above.
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