Urig Demonstrating before the Cincinnati Water Color Society on Self-Portraiture and Understanding the Human Face. Urig used a balloon to help his audience understand the basic principles of the heads proportions in practical imaginable terms. Bottom Right: Urig and Nancy Wisely Events Coordinator.
Testimonial:
Very much enjoyed your portrait demo for the Greater Cincinnati Watercolor Society. You employed very effective educational tools throughout the program and explained yourself well. Your patience and kindness during the critique session was much appreciated. Good job!
- Deb Ward, Membership Chair and President (Elect), Cincinnati Watercolor Society
Thank you so much for your informative demo and talk about facial features and their positioning on the face. I learned more in the couple of hours than I have in many years of books and study.
- Jane A. Hittinger
Next workshop:
Feb. 11 & 12, 2012 SELF PORTRAIT – Open Media Exploration Cincinnati Art Club @ Pendleton
Studio 112
1310 Pendleton Street Cincinnati OH
9:30 am – 3:30 pm
More information and descriptions here – Click Here
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February 1, 2012 – SELF PORTRAIT (Water Soluble Oils) Greater Cincinnati Watercolor Society
At the Cincinnati art Club, 10 am.
1021 Parkside Place, Cincinnati OH
513-791-1466
Nancy Wisely nwisely@fuse.net
February 11 & 12, 2012
Open Media Exploration – SELF PORTRAITURE & UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN FACE
Cincinnati Art Club @ Pendleton, Studio 112, 1310 Pendleton Street, Cincinnati OH 513-708-7981
Daryl Urig Contact@DarylUrig.com http://www.darylurig.com/workshops-and-learning.aspx
February 18 & 19, 2012 – STUDIO PAINTING KNIVES – GET OUT OF BOX The Studio at Rush Creek
9481 Garland Lane North, Maple Grove, MN 55311
Karen Highness studiorushcreek@gmail.com
763-315-3001 http://www.studio-rush.com/
February 23 – 26, 2012 Cuyahoga Valley Art Center - STUDIO PAINTING KNIVES – GET OUT OF BOX
2131 Front Street, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221-3219
Linda Nye linda.nye@sbcglobal.net
(330) 928-8092 http://www.cvartcenter.org/
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March 2, 2012 – Nautical Oil & Palette Knife Queen City Art Club – Demo
at the Maple Knoll Manor House Restaurant
11100 Springfield Pike Cincinnati, Ohio
6 pm
March 3, 2012 – Landscape Plein Air-Knife Painting Oil/Acrylic FREE EVENT – 12:00 Noon Addison Village Hall (Mid Winter Festival of Artists)
1 Friendship Plaza
Addison, IL 60101
Host: Addison Art Guild- Annette Leiber
630-543-4100 x 7416 www.addisonartguild.com
April 12, 13 & 14, 2012 – STUDIO PAINTING KNIVES – GET OUT OF BOX Ocean Springs Art Association - Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center of Arts & Education
1620 Government Street
Ocean Springs, MS
228-313-0259
Carole Marie carole1947@bellsouth.net
May 7 – 10, 2012 – PLEIN-AIR IN THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS with PAINTING KNIVES Swannanoa Valley Fine Art LeagueÂ
310 West State Street, Black Mountain NC 28711
Karen Paquette svfal.info@gmail.com
828-669-0351 http://www.svfal.org/
June 2 & 3, 2012Â - STUDIO PAINTING KNIVES – GET OUT OF BOX Cincinnati Art Club
1021 Parkside Place, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Juddi Clubb JerryClubb@Fuse.net
Daryl Urig 513-708-7981 Send Payment to:
CAC C/O Juddi Clubb, 131 Highland, Fort Thomas, KY 41075
July 2&3, 5&6, 2012 – PLEIN AIR LANDSCAPE Provincetown Art Association and MuseumÂ
460 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA 02657
Grace Ryder-O’Malley gryderomalley@paam.org
508.487.1750 ext 20 www.paam.org
September 26 – 28, 2012 – STUDIO PAINTING KNIVES – GET OUT OF BOX Art in the Loft
109 N. Second Avenue, Suite 300, Alpena, MI
989-356-4877
Sarah Altman education@artintheloft.org www.ArtinLoft.org
Sept. 30 – Oct. 5, 2012 – PLEIN AIR LANDSCAPE Dillman’s Bay Resort – Dillman’s Creative Arts Foundation 3305 Sand Lake Lodge Lane, Lac du Flambeau, WI 54538
Denny or Sue Robertson art@dillmans.com
715-588-3143 http://www.dillmans.com
Oct. 8 – 12, 2012 – SELF PORTRAIT MISA – Madeline Island School of Arts 978 Middle Road, La Pointe, WI 54850
Jenna Ericson misa@cheqnet.net
715-747-2054 Register Now, Link to MISA
This painting gave me great enjoyment, as I painted from reference back in the studio. I really enjoy the subject matter having grown up in Avon Lake Ohio, one block from the water of Lake Erie. Lake Erie was an ocean to me, that large body of water with huge waves, a body of water that you could not see across to the other side, this was my ocean growing up. So now when I travel and see docks, boats and beaches it brings back all types of experiences and images for me to draw from and express in my paintings.
Looking at reference and photos and remembering what I had seen and the experience I felt are quite different things. I went for more of my experience, and the way the light glared off the surface of the water. I have always enjoyed that so, it is an inexpressible warm feeling.
Unifying the shadow area, gave the painting a lot of strength. The color was heightened slightly to provide more space. Lights and darks where altered to more dramatize space. The use of thin and thick paint was used to add more interest and variety to areas that would seem plainer if handled otherwise.
It is interesting how the color on the land side, which was covered with shells and the colors in the water become very close, not like a hard edge or line.
The detailing of the shrimper boat contrast the greyed shapes in the boat. Though te greyed boat has the darker dark bringing it forward in the space. The grayed area seems to heighten the glare feeling you feel off of the water, leaving the whole top right section of the painting in strong white light.
Lots of paintings that go wrong, have help me to create better paintings in my future paintings. Painting is such an experienced art, that you can only develop by doing more paintings. Unsatisfactory paintings help me to see what not to do, and what to do differently in my future paintings. It seems I am a slow learner, and it takes me many years and many paintings to learn what makes a good painting.
As an instructor I am knowledgeable enough to understand and communicate this to my students. I wish I had the same kind of instruction earlier on; it would have helped my painting greatly.
20 x 16 inches tall, oil on canvas panel Painted with walnut oil, alla prima, using brush and painting knives Visit Online Gallery Store Â
Going to the art museum was comforting. Seeing that other artists struggle with the same things I do let’s me know that I may not be that far off. Some solutions in paint where successful others where not, or how I would not do them. There is nothing perfect in art though we strive for perfection.
What I noticed helped me to figure out that even accomplished painters have developmental paintings, like I do. In fact all are development paintings, learning paintings. A painting that moves us forward. Paintings where not every stroke is refined and purposeful. Even what many would call noticeable mistakes or errors in their drawing and or painting. But isn’t this what a painting is? A developmental journey and working out problems or refinement of a skill? Moving forward with each new canvas I paint. Hopefully, slowly gaining confidence.
This experience somehow spoke to me that I am not that far off. I am on the right path, even with my own awkward mistakes or inabilities and frustration of always trying to do better or giving more.
A delightful and artistically informative event with nationally recognized American Painter Daryl Urig plein-air painting a southern home on a river street. Passerbyers and artists in his workshop alike engage Urig with questions about his art and painting with a painting knife.
You will learn much about his unique technique of using painting knives and how he has formulated it into a purposeful portrayal of his talents and himself in his paintings. Not excluding many of Urig’s penetrating thoughts, convictions and subtle, lively humor in a joyful painting event.
If you want to get a head start on painting with painting knives, this DVD is for you.
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I have always enjoyed Andrew Wyeth, my favorite of all the Wyeth painters. Born in 1917 and died in 2009 at the age of 91, truly an American Artist.
I enjoyed his simplistic, almost sepia tone approach that added charm and unity to his paintings. To me his works was well thought out with an abstract quality, but he was classified as a Realist Painter.
Going for this charm I set out on this painting to simplify its colors to more earth tones. But what I quickly found out that even in an earth tone type painting, subtle color shifts are paramount.
We have all heard the saying, Get Out of the Box. I am even calling one of my workshops using painting knives (pallet knives) with this title. So when thinking on a self portrait to paint I thought this would be a good idea. I shot a video to look at different angles, then shot a few photos to catch the aspect I was looking for.
This was the unusual part for me. After shooting the images, my first thought was a little morbid, as it appears, a head, cut off, in a box. But the more I looked at the image I knew it conveyed something much deeper to me personally. The feeling of entrapment. Like I had been caged away here in Cincinnati Ohio, where I am now writing this blog post. It was then like a big bang, that I was strongly confirmed about how important getting out and seeing what is going on in our country with the artist segment. And sharing my vision of painting, but more importantly my love and passion for painting.
Funny, I painted it in Okatie South Carolina, an area just before Hilton Head Island, SC, where I was doing one of my workshops for my National Tour.
I can’t think of anything I would enjoy more than painting plein-air in the Grand Canyons. The majestic beauty of this area is sure to inspire and captivate any artist.
Plein-Air Landscape Workshop with Daryl Urig
– Maynard Dixon Artist Workshop
4 – Day Event
Near by: Grand Canyon, Brice Canyon, Zion National Park
June 11 – 14, 2012
I had a number of personal goals set for this painting. I felt I had reached them, and this painting gave me some satisfaction. It is a rare feeling for me.
We have all heard the saying, Get Out of the Box. I am even calling one of my workshops using painting knives (pallet knives) with this title. So when thinking on a self portrait to paint I thought this would be a good idea. I shot a video to look at different angles, then shot a few photos to catch the aspect I was looking for.
