Here are the paintings our awesome students created today in our paint your pet class. Each student brought a photo of a pet to work from. We started learning about common elements such as eyes and noses and worked from there. I think they painted some wonderful animals.
And here is my painting of Rocky that I completed today. He’s a handsome fellow.
Rocky by Liz Miller CDA
How I spent my 4th of July. No computer, no phone, no students and the fireworks were on my painting. Here’s the result of a glorious day of painting.
This class is coming up in August. We’ll learn about developing our center of interest using color and line.
I love the colors in this painting with the reds supporting and bringing out the greys of the wolf. The lines created by the limbs and twigs brings your eye to the center of interest, the wolf’s face and eyes. We’ll use glazes to bring out the color harmony and details to enhance our center of interest.
Plan to join us if you want some exciting creative time.
wolf
Basic Techniques
Yellow Daisy clock
Session 1
I’ve designed a new series of workshops to introduce basic decorative painting in acrylic techniques to new painters, but they will also be good technique refreshers and enhancers to you experienced painters. Each painter will be encouraged to work at their own level.
Individuals have been asking me about learning more basic technique to establish a good foundation for our decorative painting. There are some beginning level techniques that our paintings are base upon knowing and we will be covering this information in these classes as well as using them.
These classes are especially designed for those of you who have asked about starting basic technique classes. In each class we’ll work on specific skills and paint a subject that involves that skill. It’s best if you can take the workshops in order but not imperative. Each session will build on previously sessions. We’ll complete a small painting in each class.
Classes start in July.
Invite me to teach for your Chapter.
I’d love to visit you and share any of my knowledge about art and design. I am a DecoArt Helping Artist and DecoArt graciously provides paint and products for us to use during my seminars.
Check out details of my travel teaching information and see project samples.
Under The Maple
Liz Miller CDA
Just finished the Bodie Lighthouse at Sunrise for our next 3 hr workshop, June 21. It was fun creating the sunrise effect.
Hope you’ll plan to join us.
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Bodie Lighthouse at Sunrise
We had a great time learning about “painting” with colored pencils. Our Janelle Johnson designed Great Blue Heron pieces turned out wonderfully.
Lots of fun as you can see.
We have our dates. We have our paintings chosen. And we’re excited! Registration is now open for our Nov 11, 12, & 13 seminar with Kathie George. I’m excited to show you photos of our projects that encompass watercolor, batik, and mixed media, all wonderful imaginative designs. Plan to spend all 3 days with us or register for a single day.
Ducks in a Row
Mixed Media with powdered dyes.
Kathie George is an award winning artist who’s work is primarily watermedia or collage, but she is best known for her watercolor batik on rice paper. Kathie is very willing to share her techniques and knowledge in a patient and student oriented style.
These classes are appropriate for all levels of painters, each person gaining from the learning experience. Supplies and papers will be offered by Artful Endeavors. We make everything easy for you to participate in Kathie’s classes.
Shell Weave
Watercolor with cheese cloth accents.
Mark your calendar and register now! To register and for more information.
Cat in the Snow
The sea breeze must be reaching all the way to the Triangle because we’ve had lots of painters registering for our beach related classes. I’m right there with the rest of you, dreaming of some leisure
Beach Time
3 hr workshop
time at the beach.
The Beach Time, 3 hr workshop has been quite popular, and we have painters attending the day class and more for the evening class. What can be more fun that painting the coast. No prior experience is needed but also fun for those of you who already paint.
In Cary we’re getting ready to paint one of Ros Stallcup’s wharf designs with a long fishing pier on a misty coast. Ros is a master at coastal themed paintings. Always fun for us to paint too.
Wharf
A Ros Stallcup design
I have just finished the colored pencil design for our workshop on May 15. We’re “painting” one of Janelle Johnson’s Great Blue Heron. It was lots of fun and an excellent basic colored pencil lesson. We’ll learn the basic strokes and blending while creating a fun piece of art. If you’ve wanted to try colored pencil join us for some new techniques.
Register now!
Great Blue Heron
Colored Pencil
a Janelle Johnson design
Ros’ paintings are at the studio for you to see. And they look like so much fun to paint. Ros designed these just for us and we’ll be the first to paint them. Registration is open for the July whole week or single days. I have our surfaces for purchase and have you prep ready for you. Register for Ros’ seminar now.
We have lots more exciting workshops and classes starting soon, so plan to join us at Artful Endeavors. Visit our class schedule pages to see more information. All classes except our Tue evening Cary class are held in our Raleigh studio on Sawmill Rd.
Come paint with us!
Liz
Here are my latest paintings for our upcoming classes at Artful Endeavors. Here’s your chance to join us.
Beach Time
3 hr workshop
May 10, Beach Time. $34. One of our 3 hr workshops where we complete a painting in one class. This time we’re painting a bit of warm weather at the beach with this weathered post waiting for a sea gull’s landing. My version of a Ros Stallcup design. There are day and evening options. And no prior experience is required.
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Wharf
A Ros Stallcup design
April 30, May 7, & 21. Wharf. A moody Ros Stallcup design with a little extra texture. Our Cary class has been waiting for this painting.
Spring is finally here! I was away April’s first weekend and when I returned, spring had happened. The wisteria, forsythia, monarda and lots of other plants have busted into bloom. NC is looking very colorful right now. And after the rains the last weeks we’re looking very green, all the lively, fresh, spring greens. I love to see all these different shades of green. Now I would like to see a little more rain to wash away some of the yellow pollen.
Speaking of being away the other weekend, Gail and I took a long over due get-away-trip to Nashville TN to Art Is You, art retreat, and had a wonderful time. I thought I would enjoy my 2 classes but was very pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed them. What fun, doing something totally different and learning new skills. Did you see the photos from my last post? There you’ll see my sculpted doll, Maureen I named her, and my wild Baba Yaga birdhouse. I’ve had such fun showing them off. Now I want to do more…………. Gail and I had a chance to catch up with each other, share an art experience, and meet lots of new friends and some that we had just known over the computer. Nice to put a face with the text.
The theme that kept coming up at the retreat was that it’s not about finishing a project that’s so important to our creative souls, but the creative process. That’s been on my mind a lot recently even before AIY. I have so many not yet finished paintings and some of them I am not interested in finishing because I’m at a different place in my artistic journey. I’ve progressed in my art knowledge, technique, and, most importantly, what excited and inspires me. So, it’s OK if I paint over something and start a new painting. Now that liberating. I hope my students are learning, stretching and are motivated to try new processes or go further with what intrigues them. I’ll still rejoice with them when they finish a painting too.
Ros Stallcup’s samples are at the studio! Her paintings are wonderful. It’s always such a treat to see what she creates from our vague ideas from the previous summer. Come by the studio to see these beautiful paintings, register, and/or pick up your prep and surfaces. I do have surfaces for sale and they are at the studio.
Register now and see larger photos!
Mabry’s Mill/Tuesday
Crepe Myrtle/Sunday
Garden Cart/Thursday
Hydrangeas/Friday
Sunflowers/Saturday
I’m working on our upcoming class samples and have several started. Be sure to check the schedule and plan to join us for some exciting painting. We have more Dorothy Dent designs, a paint your own building scape, a large beautiful Iris, a colored pencil workshop, and several requested workshops. We also have new 3 hr workshops coming in May and June. These workshops require no previous experience so are excellent for anyone wanting to experience a painting class with us, children 8 and up, plus our experienced painters who are enticed by the subject. You can find all of our classes and workshops by clicking on classes on our menu.
Kathie George and I are working out the detail for her Nov seminar at Artful Endeavors. She has sent photos for us to choose from and that’s the difficult part, narrowing down our choices. They are all terrific. Stop by the studio soon if you would like to offer an opinion. We’ll have some combination of batik, watercolor, and mixed media. Be sure to mark your calendar for Nov 11, 12, & 13, that’s Mon-Wed, 2013. More detail soon!
More later. Enjoy your painting journey. Liz
On the Easel- in progress…
Just a peak at what I’m painting right now. Just wish I have twice the painting time. Each one is totally absorbing.
Oranges and Brass
a Donna Bryant Waterson design
Sunflowers in Vase
a Dorothy Dent design
Out to Pasture
A Dorothy Dent design
Wharf a Ros Stallcup design
