Classes start after Easter

Classes at Shea Studio...
Hi Everyone! Thanks for all who contacted me about the classes! I am really excited about all the positive feedback I have received this past week!
I will be opening registration to the public this week by putting adds in a couple local newspapers.  I still have room in both classes and YES adults can take the after school class if they would rather :)

Shea Studio

Warfordsburg, PA

presents

Spring Oil Classes 

(water-miscible)

with  

co-instructor
Donna Whitford Housel, of Bear Paw Art Studio in Bedford, PA

Fridays

April 5, 2013 -  May 24, 2013

1:30-3:30 and 4:00-5:00

adults, homeschoolers and children ages 12+

for more information...

717-816-3038

www.LSVoight.com

www.bearpawartstudio.com/

We will be learning composition, color, paint and brush choice and care, wet on wet, glazing, and impasto.  We hope to complete at least two paintings.  We will also discuss many techniques and ways to approach a variety of subject matter.  There will be instruction and then ample time for one on one help.

Materials available to buy or rent.

Remodeled Art Studio and Art workshop

Hi Again!
I recently remodeled my art studio and our basement workshop to hold art classes in.  Please enjoy the pictures!

New work

Wow! It has been over a year since I have posted here! Well, Life kinda happened, and I set my art more or less aside.  I did accomplish a few things though and I would like to show you the latest oil I have completed and the steps it took to get there :)

I took a class at Howards Art and Frame in Hagerstown, MD to get back into oil painting.  It had been over a year since I had done anything with oils and I felt I needed a refresher before I started teaching again this Spring.

Nicole Troup was the instructor  /http://www.nicolesoilportraits.com/

She provided us with a photo and encouraged us to change as much as we wanted to.  I kept the general idea of a windmill, although I had never seen this type of windmill before.  I changed the doorway to a circular staircase and added flower pots, vines and boulders to the painting.  I changed the look of the water and mountains in the distance and the grass in the foreground.  I also changed the style of window set among the added vines.

The following pics will give you an idea of how the painting took shape.  Needless to say, I fell in love with the new set of palette knives that I bought :)

Original Photo:


 

Drawing with some changes made:



Toned canvas then blocked in main colors:

Hmmm...better soften the colors...

Time to take a black and white pic and check my values...
 

I Needed more dark values, but I was hoping the vines would take care of that.

okay, too much dark. Vines are way to heavy, Thankyou Nicole for pointing that out :)

I added back in the building color to spread out the vines.
I had to wait till it dried to add the flowers back on the new vines, but I think now it is finally done.

 Thanks for looking :)

My first completed Colored Pencil Work

I am LOVING colored pencil!! it is so transportable and the layering of dozens of colors over sometimes dozens of hours is very relaxing :)

I have worked on a number of demos but these Iris' are my first completed work.

I call it "Her Royal Court"

last pastel for awhile - Fields of Dandilions

I feel I must take a break from pastels for awhile.  they are such a job to set up and the materials are terribly expensive.  I am burned out from them and look forward to working on my new passion which is colored pencils!! I will also as always continue working with watercolors :)  Always trying to get looser in my work.  And, after speaking at length with another artist I would love to expand my work to 3D and try my hand at sculpture.
anyway, here is a pic of the dandelion pastel.  Stay tuned for some colored pencil pics and updates on my Fall classes for kids and the fall watercolor class for adults!

Art Sale and Tour

Wow, I can't believe it has been so long since I have posted on here!  I have been very busy getting ready for the http://www.artsaleandtour.com/. 
I matted and framed 19 paintings for the show.  It was alot of work and took weeks and weeks!  The show though, was a great success for all the artists involved!  A special thanks to Garry Ritchie of the Frostburg Museum for putting up with me for two weeks :)

I am also very pleased that I SOLD one :)( see the last picture for the my painting "Red Sun in the Morning" and its new owner :)

Here are a number of pics from the two weekend show :) Including art from Donna Godlove, Lisa Sheirer and Dennis Sherald who were stationed at the Frostburg Museum with me.

Lynn Ferris class week 5 - night scene

This was alot of fun, something different that I have never tried before!  I'm going to practice some more night scenes :)