Ode to Travis Schlaht

Two extraordinary portraits on exhibition at the John Pence Gallery.

Blue Dress 20" x 27"

Wisdom 16" x 20"

http://www.johnpence.com/visuals/painters/schlaht/

Dana Gallery "Paint Out"

"Sunset Over 9 Pipes"

Kenneth Salaz

www.kensalaz.com

Congratulations to Ken Salaz, invited to participate in this year's landscape painting "Paint Out" hosted by the Dana Gallery in Missoula Montana.

Congratulations on your three sales opening night!

From architects’ artisan choices:

"Finally, Eric Stengel speaks of cherry picking the talent to match what needs to be accomplished. At the top of his roster: Page|Duke Landscape Architects, Vintage Millworks Inc., and Chicago Decorators Supply Corp. And then, his idea of “jaw-dropping” visual art: works from Camie Davis, founder of the Artisans Guild for Classical Narrative Painting; A fine arts school that teaches drawing the way it was done during the Renaissance. “It is an unbelievable contribution,” he says. “Terrific.”

Eric Stengel Architecture

Timberfiel 10 Opening Reception

To the left, the artists attending with Kip Forbes:

Camie Davis, John Patrick Campbell, Rob Clarke, Bryan Le Boeuf, George Towne, Wendy Walworth, Timothy Jahn, Ed Terpening, Patricia Watwood and John Dowd.

Below, My Husband Ken Salaz, brilliant landscape painter, and I and our sweet baby on the way posing with Narcissus at the opening.

Timberfiel 10 Opening Reception

What a great evening with an exceptional group of artists!

Last year, Christopher Forbes and Stephen Doherty invited a group of 10 artists to paint at the Forbes Estate. Those artists have been invited to share work done that week, and later work inspired by the trip.

Work is on view through Sept at The Forbes Gallery, New York City.

Ode to Leon Bonnat I

Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat

1833-1922 French Painter Influenced:

Gustave Caillebotte, Frederic Vinton, Raoul Dufy, George Burroughs Torrey

Ode to Bonnat as an extraordinary Classical Narrative Painter.

Cain, committing the first murder by killing his brother, Abel was the first human to ever die. Cain is mentioned as Adam and Eve's first child; thus, Cain, according to Scripture, was the first human ever born.

Job's is a blessed man who lives righteously. At the suggestion of God and the will of God, Satan challenges Job's integrity, proposing to God that Job serves him simply because God protects him. God removes Job's protection, allowing Satan to take his wealth, his children, and his physical health in order to tempt Job to curse God. Despite his difficult circumstances, he does not curse God, but rather curses the day of his birth. And although he protests his plight and pleads for an explanation, he stops short of accusing God of injustice.

Ode to Leon Bonnat II

" Le Martyre de Saint Denis" By Bonnat

Denis, having alarmed the pagan priests by his many conversions, was executed by beheading on the highest hill in Paris (now Montmartre), which was likely to have been a druidic holy place. After his head was chopped off, Denis is said to have picked it up and walked six miles to the summit of Mont Mars (now Montmartre), preaching a sermon the entire way.

"Jacob wrestling with the Angel" By Bonnat

So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak."
But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
The man asked him, "What is your name?"
"Jacob," he answered.
Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, [e] because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome."

Summer Workshop at The Guild Atelier

I will be giving one, 2 week workshop in June this summer. The dates are Monday the 6th through Friday the 17th. 10am to 5pm.
There will be 8 spots available for portrait and 6 spots available for still life/cast painting students. The price is 850.00 $ for the two weeks. If you are interested in registering for this class or have any questions, please contact: camie106@hotmail.com

Here are some pictures from previous classes

Beautiful Claudia finishes up her drawing of the sea goddess. Claudia travels to Italy every year and on her last visit she fell in love with this life sized sculpture in the Vatican Museum. She noticed this recurring theme of women riding on the back of horses with fish tails. These other photos, she took in the National Museum of Rome. We have been setting up small groups of folds to mimic the sculpture so that she can still do her drawing from life. We've done a little research on these strange sea creatures:

"HIPPOKAMPOI (or Hippocamps) were the horses of the sea. They were depicted as composite creatures with the head and fore-parts of a horse and the serpentine tail of a fish. In mosaic art they were often covered with green scales and had fish-fin manes and appendages. The ancients believed they were the adult-form of the fish we call the "sea-horse". Hippokampoi were the mounts of Nereid nymphs and sea-gods, and Poseidon drove a chariot drawn by two or four of the beasts.

THE NEREIDES (or Nereids) were fifty Haliad Nymphs or goddesses of the sea. They were the patrons of sailors and fishermen, who came to the aid of men in distress, and goddesses who had in their care the sea's rich bounty. Individually they also represented various facets of the sea, from salty brine, to foam, sand, rocky shores, waves and currents, in addition to the various skills possessed by seamen.
The Nereides were depicted in ancient art as beautiful young maidens, sometimes riding on the back of dolphins, hippokampoi (fish-tailed horses) and other sea creatures."

It's a rough life.......

Orion Framed and shipped to its new home in Nashville

Sean finishing up his still life!

Top: transfer
Below: ebauche
Center: almost finished!

Saturday Portrat Class at The Guild

Irena Drawing Complete

An exciting new addition to the Saturday Portrait class to begin in March.






A half hour anatomy lesson will be given each week prior to each class. We will cover a different aspect of the portrait every session including the facial features, skull, neck and chest.



Portrait class from 1:00-5:00pm 160.00 per month

Portrait class & Anatomy from 12:30 -5:00pm 180.0 per month