Update: Amelia Meredith

I'm just doing a little update on Amelia, She is a teacher at the Florence Academy of Art, located in Sweden. Here's some of her recent work and studies 

   

    

At least it's not a kitten

So by accident our theme at the Natural History Museum was adorable, 

well  Ellen's takes the cake.

Ellen's fox cub

I did a rabbit 

Day 1 of my goat drawing 

More dead animals....

Let's just have pictures today :)

My bear 

Me and today's subject :D

Ellen's Bear

We Aren't Dead Yet!

After the show went down I had much debated the future of this blog, We have access to excellent content and not to mention an excellent domain name.

But alas and still I have come to no conclusion... yet!

There has been some suggestions about continuing updates about the artists involved, and I'm leaning towards this... But...
This could involved two things.
5 very shy painters willingly giving me updates (not likely) or bugging 5 of my friends into giving me updates ( not preferred)
However I do think this is possible, but we will wait and see.


But for now I'll just share mine and Ellen's trip to the Natural Historic Museum in Goteborg, Sweden.
Our hope is to make these trips a regular thing, every Sunday starting at 11am.

My Moose

This will be my last few months living in Sweden, and studying at the Florence Academy of Art. I've set many goal for the time I have left trying to squeeze everything I can get out of this wonderful education.
The weekly trip to the Museum are just one of my many goals this term and I think we are heading off to a great start.

Ellen's Moose

Ellen's Demo (my apologies for posting this so late)

Here are some photos from Ellen Barkin's demo!

Getting started on the thinker.

Kendric did a sketch of Ellen during the demo.

Close to the finish!

   

 

Last Days!

Tomorrow at 5pm the show will come down.
If you are in the Northwest Arkansas Area please stop by, this will be your last chance to check out some amazing work!

Also!
 I will be hosting the last demo for this show Tomorrow at the Fayetteville Underground from 9am-12pm
I hope to see you there!




This has been a wonderful Show and I would just like to take a moment and thank the Fayetteville Underground  and to Thank the artist involved in making this such and amazing show.

Zacheriah Kramer

Per-Elof Nilsson Ricklund 

Ellen Barkin Söderholm

Amelia Meredith

Kendric Tonn

Thank you guys for the amazing work! 

I would also like to extend a big thank you to others, that with out there help this show wouldn't have gone as well as it has.

Vincent Lyons, Donald Ivy, Malka Ivy 

And I would like to offer a really big thank you to my mother Nancy Wells for all of her help!

Group D-D-D-D-Demo!

Last Saturday we hosted a group demo, and added a new member to the family and to our still life setups. 

Flames, or Mr. Bubbles, or Thor, or basically any name that starts with the letter B.

We have yet to decide one for now. 

On to other things, here are some more snap shots of the Demo, Thank you to all who came by!

Land Scape Land: The Plein Air Painter's Amusement Park

                                                                                    On Sunday we traveled down to Hot Springs AR.

Here Kendric and I are getting our act together,
for a day in the hot hot sun.

Hometown to President Bill Clinton, and one of the top 100 small art towns in America.

On Monday we visited Garven Woodland Gardens : The University of Arkansas Botanical Garden. 

 It was a very beautiful place to get to visit, and we all really enjoyed painting out there. My only regret is that we ended up only about 15% into the gardens before we each found our spots, and didn't get the visit the rest of the Gardens before going. 

Ellen's setup

Ellen with setup

Random Creek

Monster  Coy Fish!

I was painting around here roughly 

Anthony Chapel

Kendric working hard

Where is Waldo?

My first landscape painting...

Kendric's Landscape

Ellen's finished painting will be coming soon.....

Interview!!!

Eariler this week Ellen, Kendric and I (Maggie) were interviewed by Jacqueline Froelic from Ozarks at Large  at KUAF radio (91.3FM for the Northwest Arkansas Area).  It aired today! At 12pm and again at 7pm. 


Listen to the interview HERE!

D-D-D-Demo!

Hear are some photos taken during visiting artist Kendric Tonn's oil painting demo.

We had a really great crowd come in for the demo.

Everyone taking notes.

2 hours of standing takes it's toll.

Here is a shot with the still-life setup.

The final product!

I'll mention this again later in the week.

On the 16th from 9am-12pm in the Revolver Gallery, We will be putting on another demo, Featuring Ellen Barkin Soderholm! Please come by and check it out!