Sentences with phrase «taking painting lessons»

After taking painting lessons from a marine artist, Mr. Oliveira enrolled in the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, where he earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts in 1951 and a master's degree in 1952.

Turning to visual arts at the age of 30, he originally experimented with pencils and tried to draw, but after taking painting lessons he discovered paper collaging and has never looked back.

In the mid-1940's she left her husband, placed their son, Jeffrey, in the care of his parents and moved back to Newark, where she trained in mechanical drafting and took painting lessons with Isaac Lane Muse.

Born in San Juan in 1967, Enoc Perez first took painting lessons at the age of eight.

«Elyse arranged to have a painting teacher come to the house, and we took painting lessons in the garage.»

In 1936 - 7 he took painting lessons with Carl Holty - a European modernist influenced by Cubism and Russian Constructivism, whose geometric style works were more hard - edged than expressionist - while also absorbing portrait art under Karl Anderson at the National Academy of Design.

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The Harvard Business Review urges people who wish to stay cognitively fit to engage in challenging activities, such as studying a new language, learning to paint or taking lessons on a new musical instrument.

For an activity, go miniature golfing, paint pottery together, take dance or painting lessons, or go bike riding or canoeing.

12 Lesson Plans that take your students on a journey through drawing and painting, using the work of Georgia O» Keeffe as inspiration and red peppers as a primary source.

Traveling families can take advantage of our resort's variety of child - friendly activities, from finger painting to French lessons.

Please note: this lesson is taken from Carole's Acrylic Floral Painting Course and the following materials list is for that complete course.

In this free video lesson, taken from Will Kemp's course on Arylic Still Life for Beginners, you'll become familiar with Will's method of getting a good foundation with your lightest lights and darkest darks in your painting, before building up the mid-tones and bringing a little more realism in your artwork.

Finally, Artist - Teachers will participate in a hands - on abstract painting lesson that they can take back to their classrooms.

Take each of the lessons of those three paintings.

Greg Hardy and David Alexander also took lessons from Emma Lake workshops to produce bold modernist landscapes, and Edward Epp - another artist who started in abstraction - found a original way to paint watercolour landscapes.

When he was taken to New York to visit the Museum of Modern Art and saw Matisse's painting Piano Lesson, his decision became irrevocable, despite his mother's apparently irrational desire for him to become a diplomat.

He took the lessons from Jean - Denis Maillart, who allowed him to exhibit one painting at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts.

This lesson is taken from Carole's «Painting Portraits in Acrylics» course.

And if that weren't enough, they have contests which encourage you to draw / paint / sketch the subject of the lesson you have taken and submit it for critique.

I can watch the lesson as many times as I like and stop any were I like; to take notes, to follow the tutor in his or her painting or simple for a brake.

what an incredibly humorous fellow and very freeing course... loved watching David get more and more paint on his hands and self as each lesson went on and his amusing introductions giving each lesson a different title... reminds us play is fun and not too take our selves too seriously... its meant to be enjoyable after all thanks David!

I have only been painting for a year and am taking lessons locally and have attended one three day class by a renowned artist.

Instead, she took the lessons she learned from studying ceramics in California, and from making sculpture in the years following her move to New York in 1968, and transformed them into a direct engagement with painting.

I took up painting two years ago aged 76 during that time I have had various lessons using acrylics, water based oils, and watercolors.

Benicia painter William Harsh took to heart the lesson of his mentor Philip Guston that making a painting entails bringing something into two worlds: the one in which canvases pile up and studio space costs money and the parallel world of picture space, a realm of freedom where even the impossible may find a place.