Let's make it snow! This long narrow format is perfect for a fence in the snow. Painting white snow is a balance of values and color. Nothing is truly white. This video is up now at www.ShowcaseArtCenter.com on the video class page. (subscription $10/month) Next week we will paint it together step-by-step. Showcase classes are: 10:00 AM to noon Tuesday and Wednesday for Independent painters 1:30-3:30 PM Tuesday and Wednesday step-by-step painting and Christmas party -

Lights are going up everywhere, a brightness against the winter cold. This simple design is perfect for cards and slightly addicting. Definitely FUN! The video is up (video class page-subscription $10/month) now at www.ShowcaseArtCenter.com . Next week classes at Showcase are: 10:00 AM to noon Tuesday and Wednesday for independent painting 1:30-3:30 PM Tuesday and Wednesday for step-by-step Christmas Lights See you there!

Thursday night we will see the full moon. It is called the cold moon because it is the longest night of the year. In November we had the Beaver moon. I am combining the two to make our project this week. It has a two part video posted now: The trees are done in part one ( approximately 20 minutes) and the beaver and foreground are in part two (approximately 6 minutes). I almost scrapped the project, but salvaged it by splattering Titanium white paint after it was done a

Let's paint this week before cooking and gathering with family. Two options are offered in replay videos ( www.ShowcaseArtCenter.com video class page- subscription $10/month required) this week: Northern Lights and Turkeys. Since we were blessed to see the Northern Lights in Colorado a few weeks ago, let's commemorate the event with some fun watercolor techniques to make mini paintings. These could become cards or tree ornaments very easily. Classes this week at Showcas

Let's allow watercolor to be loose and juicy doing what it does best: dripping, mingling, and blossoming. A scalene triangle composition becomes a trinity nativity scene. Practice a lot by hand-painting all your Christmas cards or have a local copy shop reproduce cards using your favorite painting. This video is up now at www.Showcaseartcenter.com . We will meet for classes at the Showcase this week: 10:00-noon Tuesday for independent projects 1:30-3:30 PM Tuesday Step-by

Happy Halloween and end of October. I have missed making new videos and look forward to making new painting videos in November. My knee is healing remarkably and rapidly. I appreciate the time off and the pain medications have insisted on it. HA! Next week we will be watching Plein Air LIVE at Showcase, so no new video till the next week. Stop by and join the watch party. In the meantime, there are plenty of videos to revisit and review, just nothing new. But with my memory,

Several of you have suggested a loose juicy butterfly painting. Here it is! Two ways to go about it. One way would be to draw first...

This Tuesday, September 16 we WILL have class 1:30-3:30 PM at Showcase Art Center. It is the following Tuesday September 23 that is John...

Grab your value key. We will use values 1 to 9 or white to black or light to dark to identify the layers of mountains in this landscape....

The past two weeks we designed still life set ups and potential compositions. Now choose one of your designs. Add color but keep an eye...