I know it is still February, but it feels like spring! Next week is the Garden Show. So let's go with painting flowers. This video is up now at www.ShowcaseArtCenter.com on the video class page. It is an exercise in planning your composition design and painting loose. Next week we welcome March and a new month of classes at Showcase: 10:00 AM to noon Tuesday or Wednesday for independent painting 1:30 to 3:30 PM for step-by-step Floral Fun Join us on zoom too. Sign up o

Last week we tackled one point perspective. This week we revisit two point perspective. If we were looking at a building to paint, how do you find the horizon line and vanishing points? How do you find the peak of the roof and paint it in the correct location? This video will answer those questions and more. There is another video in two parts on two part perspective that was done in 2020. All are found beneath the video player on the video class page at www.ShowcaseArt

Up until the Italian Renaissance, art was pretty flat. The old masters discovered perspective to increase the depth of their paintings and sculptures. Brunelleschi created the doors of the Florence Baptistry with incredible depth by using perspective. Leonardo da Vinci often gets credit for perspective. We are going to explore a simple scene using one point perspective. The video is up now at www.Showcaseartcenter.com . I also resurrected a video on 2 point perspective

You have heard it many times - Value does all the work, color gets all the credit. It can be challenging to get the values correct when distracted by color. In this video we start with a value study and overlay color. Viola! The values are correct. This is a trick the old masters used. The video is up now at www.showcaseartcenter.com . Next week we will work in person at our regular class times: 10:00 AM to noon Tuesday and Wednesday for independent painting (your own