Thursday, 12 November 2009

What's on the Easel
Topic: Richard Boyer's Studio

What’s on the Easel

     Well I’m still having problems with their “edit” and “save changes” button……just deletes everything!  So now I do in word doc. and paste it over.

     We have a storm front moving through the valley today, so my studio is rather dark.  Some of the ski resorts have opened up and they are expecting another foot of snow up in the mountains

     I like to use natural north light, which of course make you very susceptible to the weather conditions, one dark rain cloud and everything comes to a grinding halt. 

     Today I worked more on the boats, mainly the hulls, getting them to sit in the water and to look believable.  The middle ground was also resolved more.

     Tonight we have the crit night, as I call it.  About ten years ago I started having a few art friends over to look at my paintings and critique them.  Usually with a little wine, this becomes relatively too easy.  My skin got thicker through this bashing process and I guess the art work got better.

     Fast forward to now and we are about eight all together critiquing each others work until midnight and bringing rather higher end wines to the occasion.

    It turns out that art is not the only thing we are critiquing. My wine for tonight will be a Grenache from the south of France.

Richard Boyer

http://richardboyerart.com/

Posted by ab9/richardboyerart at 1:35 PM MST