Camie Davis

Ode to Travis Schlaht

2011-11-09T12:02:00.000-08:00

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"

2011-07-23T09:45:00.000-07:00

"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:

2011-07-23T09:30:00.000-07:00

"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

2011-07-01T15:19:00.000-07:00

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

2011-07-01T15:11:00.000-07:00

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

2011-06-20T15:50:00.001-07:00

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

2011-06-20T15:32:00.000-07:00

" 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

2011-03-04T21:43:00.000-08:00

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

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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.......

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Orion Framed and shipped to its new home in Nashville

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Sean finishing up his still life!

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Top: transfer
Below: ebauche
Center: almost finished!

Saturday Portrat Class at The Guild

2011-02-08T11:45:00.000-08:00

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

Saturday Portrait Class at The Guild

2011-02-01T21:09:00.000-08:00

To the left, my drawing of Ireena, our portrait model for the saturday class, we have four more weeks and then I will post the student work.

Due to The Guild's Saturday portrait and cast drawing class being filled with waiting list, we are opening up three spots in our Wed/ Thurs afternoon portrait drawing/painting class to non full time students. Feel free to shoot us an email if interested.

Orion Painting

2011-02-01T21:01:00.000-08:00

Before I begin on the larger painting in earnest, I am completing a large 40" x 50" full color study to figure out the colors and values in paint, here is the smaller painting in progress, its kind of a cool picture because It shows the different stages from transfer to ebouche to first pass. The first thing I have gleaned from the large study is that I need more tree studies for the landscape, making them up is not quite cutting it.

Orion Painting

2010-12-19T23:50:00.001-08:00

Orion Drawing officially finished, getting dropped off at the framers tomorrow.

Awesome New Blog

2010-12-16T21:20:00.000-08:00

John Forkner "Model Extraordinare" has posted a new blog with many new artworks in progress... Thanks John!

http://jfmodeling.blogspot.com/

Painting by Ken Salaz

Orion Painting

2010-12-16T20:32:00.000-08:00

Off and running.....

Student Work

2010-12-16T17:58:00.000-08:00

Ashley's final cast drawing, Irvin's final figure drawing, Kevin on the form and Remi's beautiful painting completed with Travis Schlat.

Painting by Ashley Howell

2010-12-09T05:14:00.000-08:00

Progression of painting by Ashley Howell

Student work in Progress

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Kevin's painting half way through the pose

Student work in Progress

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Work in Progress, done by Andrea, all from natural light, her self portrait is so beautiful. We can't wait until it is finished!

The Guild Student Work

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Irvin Rocks the graphite and white chalk on toned paper, all are works in progress.

Student Works In Progress

2010-11-21T00:24:00.000-08:00

Photos of works in progress durring last months pose, from the top: Ashley H, Kerry Y, Kevin W.

Evening Figure Drawing & Painting at The Guild

2010-11-20T20:47:00.000-08:00

Mr. Todd Casey will be teaching Evening Figure Drawing & Painting at The Guild Atelier 6-9pm Monday - Thursday. To the left, Todd's beautiful figure he drew along with the students last month and his stunning figure painting.

Works By Guild Instructor Todd Casey

2010-11-20T20:37:00.000-08:00

Two beautiful Still Life paintings done by Guild Instructor Todd Casey. Mr. Casey is taking over the evening classes full time and will be teaching cast drawing/painting and still life drawing/painting in the evenings at The Guild Atelier. For enquiries please email Todd at

theguildatelier@gmail.com

Students at The Guild

2010-11-12T20:57:00.000-08:00

Beautiful Andrea working on her self portrait in natural light and designing her composition for her Narrative Painting, Rodney's beautiful evening figure drawing and happy happy students celebrate the arrival of the Bouguereau Book.

Orion Painting

2010-11-04T06:53:00.000-07:00

The canvas has arrived! 115" x 76"!

Student Work at The Guild

2010-11-04T06:43:00.001-07:00

Kevin's figure drawing, Bust of Sheila transferred and ready to paint, his last figure drawing of Victoria and Rodney's first white chalk on toned paper drawing of Victoria. Beautiful works

Student Work at The Guild

2010-11-04T06:37:00.001-07:00

Claudia's fabric study, Irvin's cast painting and Sean's still life, all in progress, beautiful work.

Halloween Party at The Guild!

2010-11-03T08:36:00.000-07:00

Irvin Rocks his famous guacamole for the party and here is his stunning figure drawing for last month's evening pose.

Halloween Party at The Guild!

2010-11-01T22:06:00.001-07:00

And the absolutely uncontested, extraordinary, inventive and fabulous winner of best costume....Katie!

Evening Figure Drawing at The Guild

2010-10-13T20:40:00.001-07:00

We are up and running for our evening figure sessions at The Guild. Its night 3 of this months figure session and here are the stellar beginnings of Kevin, Rodney and Irvin's drawings, also my painting in progress. We are so grateful to have such a wonderful model, Victoria. The pose is beautiful.

Orion Painting

2010-10-08T19:01:00.000-07:00

I've enlarged the drawing 400% and with much encouragement from my students, the Orion painting will be about nine feet in height. Very exciting.

Open House

2010-10-07T14:06:00.000-07:00

Come Join us at The Guild for live music and dancing Friday Evening, October 29th

Open House: 5pm
Halloween Party: 8pm

Student and Faculty work will be on display.

Composition

2010-10-05T21:36:00.000-07:00

As part of The Guild's Narrative program, we had Eric Stengel, Classical Architect, give a lecture on PHI and harmony in nature. These are some of his findings on The Golden Section and the human body. The human body often, so naturally, falls into harmony with nature because it too is PHI or "Nature".

OOOOh I get by with a little help from my friends...

2010-10-01T21:44:00.000-07:00

I am nearing the completion of The Orion drawing. For the doves, I have solicited the help of a dear friend. He holds very still

Farewell to Ernesto

2010-10-01T21:31:00.001-07:00

Ernesto's beautiful drawing on the left. Thank you to Ernesto for drawing with us at The Guild, come by any time!

Guild Atelier Students II

2010-09-24T16:39:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Sean!!!!!! Sean's still life set up. Jeremy and his cast painting in progress. Andrea and Kevin

Guild Atelier Students I

2010-09-24T16:09:00.000-07:00

Kerry and Ernesto our wonderful guest artist for this month's morning pose. Ashley, charming her painting along. Irvin and Andrea.

Todd's Awesome Block-in at The Guild

2010-09-18T19:50:00.001-07:00

Stay tuned to watch Todd rock this awesome drawing into a figure painting......

Cast Painting at The Guild

2010-09-18T13:32:00.000-07:00

Jeremy's wipe out and first day of painting form on the left cheek. Kevin's poster study and paint transfer, getting ready to rock it on the beautiful Hebe cast.

Figure Painting at The Guild

2010-09-18T13:21:00.000-07:00

Ashley's first figure painting in color. Go Ash!

Evening Portraits at The Guild

2010-09-18T13:05:00.001-07:00

From the top, Kevin's preliminary sketch that he has transferred for a painting, Jeremy's preliminary sketch beginning to paint and my white chalk drawing. We are all inspired by our lovely model Victoria.

Portraits and Figures

2010-09-08T19:23:00.001-07:00

Andrea's portrait of Rosario, Ashley's figure, Kevins portrait of Victoria and my attempts below to keep up with my students. They are incredibly talented.

Day two at The Guild

2010-09-08T19:14:00.000-07:00

Todd doing some teaching at The Guild. The students are working so hard already. Ashleys figure study and Jeremy's cast drawing: both are getting ready to transfer for paintings.

First Day of School

2010-09-04T14:30:00.000-07:00

The Guild's first Saturday class was wonderful, thank you, thank you, thank you to all for your support and beautiful flowers!

"Build it and they will come."

2010-09-03T10:37:00.000-07:00

The first day of School for the full time students at The Guild starts this Tues!!!!

Saturday Cast/portrait at The Guild

2010-09-03T10:33:00.000-07:00

The Guild's first Saturday session begins tomorrow Sept 4th. Cast drawing and painting from 11am to 5pm and portrait drawing and painting from 1pm to 5pm. We will have a full house, very exciting. To the left, images of The Guild as she comes together.

Congratulations Ashley!

2010-08-29T19:59:00.000-07:00

Ashley Howell, a student at The Guild Atelier had her first solo show this summer and sold six works. Congratulations Ashley!
To the left, Ashley and her boyfriend Kevin at her opening and below, two of Ashley's works that were sold in the show.

The Guild Atelier Opens its doors

2010-08-29T19:45:00.000-07:00

I am so pleased to announce that The Guild will open this fall with ten full time and 18 part time students enrolled in classes. A very special thank you to Rodney, Claudia, Kerry, Todd, Ashley, Eric, Mom, Dad, Sean, Andrea, Irvin, Kevin, Jeremy, Carlos, Angela for your help and dedication to The Guild. What a long way we have come in two months.

Architectural Casts for The Guild

2010-08-24T12:32:00.000-07:00

The Architectual Casts for The Guild arrived today, they are just stunning!

The Art of Narrative

2010-08-22T14:53:00.001-07:00

“The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.”
—Harold Goddard
(The Meaning of Shakespeare)

Religious Narrative Painting by Bonnat

2010-08-22T14:51:00.000-07:00

Leon Bonnat
French painter, teacher, portraitist & collector
born June 20 1833- died 1922
Director of: Ecole des Beaux-Arts
Professor at: Ecole des Beaux-Arts
Student of: Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)

I was fortunate to see the above painting a few years back at the Metropolitan Museum. It is a deeply moving work of art. Bonnat, with a single figure, captures the story of Job

New Sculpture by Jiwoong Cheh

2010-08-22T09:11:00.000-07:00

Cheh teaches at The Grand Central Academy of Art. He recently completed this sculpture of my self and as always I have increased respect for models. Posing is very difficult.

To see more of Cheh's work please fallow the link below:
http://grandcentralacademy.classicist.org/cheh.html

The Guild's First Press

2010-08-21T20:56:00.001-07:00

“The classical language is a tradition characterized by its transformations. Every age takes its previous uses and lessons and transforms them to reflect yet a new culture’s identity; and so it has gone for millennia.

Much of the language’s beauty is in its adaptability and flexibility to respond to the times while maintaining a thread that binds us all to nature. It uses a thread that Plato called, “nature’s greatest secret”. A common, singular element found in all things NOT man made. This is the basis of the classical language. The ability to go “simply” from the “one to the many”; allowing the inherent simplicity of complex beauty to emerge; it is NOT the confusion of the “complicated.”

When understood and employed by man, its use allows our works to have a natural resonance with the nature that’s in us. These works resonate with nature and us because how they are made is how we are made. We are nature too.

It’s Plato’s recognition of the “secret”, he empirically observed in all of nature that allows man to transcend the bonds of earth through our individual works. Its importance has been recognized, through to modern times as evidenced in its mandated use in the ecclesiastical commissions of the church, eastern temples, Mesoamerican ritual sites, and the list goes on. Its existence crosses all times and cultures; the “secret” was observed, recognized and employed by all cultures at some time.

Ms. Davis’s “The Guild Atelier” can only be seen as another necessary and continuous extension of Plato’s secret of nature in man made art. A necessary continuation of the conversation started thousands of years ago. At worst, those with the skills learned are excellent beyond the norm; those with the skills and the ability to transcend them are masters, like her. There is no beginning, middle or end, just the continuation of the conversation.

The real beauty is that there is not an end, just the continued elation of the life long search.”

Professor Demetria Papadakis

The Art of Narrative

2010-08-21T20:54:00.001-07:00

“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
—Ursula K. LeGuin

Mythological Narrative

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Adolphe William Bouguereau (French 1825-1905)
Orestes Pursued by the Furies, 1862

The Eumenides (also known as The Furies) is the final play of the Oresteia, in which Orestes, Apollo, and the Erinyes go before Athena and a jury where the homicide court of Athens held its sessions), to decide whether Orestes' murder of his mother, Clytemnestra, makes him worthy of the torment they have inflicted upon him.

Aristotle Poetics

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2.2 Object

" Those who imitate, imitate agents; and these must be either admirable or inferior. (Character almost always corresponds to just these two categories, since everyone is differentiated in character by defect or excellence.) Alternatively they must be better people than we are, or worse, or of the same sort.......
.....The very same difference distinguishes tragedy and comedy from each other; the latter aims to imitate people worse than our contemporaries, the former better"

-Aristotle Poetics

Religious Narrative Painting by Bouguereau

2010-08-21T20:49:00.000-07:00

This incredible masterpiece was open to the public for viewing at Christie's Auction House. It is a great technical masterpiece and a moving work of art; The mother's loss of the son.

Why We Love Classicism II

2010-08-04T09:47:00.001-07:00

Painting at The Guild

2010-08-03T20:09:00.000-07:00

Angela, Todd and I had our first portrait session at The Guild. The beautiful and graceful Rosario was our model. I have painted her twice before. She is such a joy to work with.

Ode to Graydon Parrish

2010-08-02T20:35:00.000-07:00

Graydon is currently at GCA for his final week of his Munsell Color Theory Workshop. The class is incredible, the students are doing great work and as my workshop was going on at the same time I was able, as always, to hear what an incredible teacher and person Graydon is. The students are right. We are so lucky to have have Graydon. He is a truely extraordinary painter and a really really good person. Above -myself with the famous Mr. Parrish. Center -Mr. Parrish working on his Master Work. Below- One of my favorite drawings of his, just beautiful!

The Guild's First Students

2010-07-31T14:17:00.000-07:00

Construction on the space is progressing quit nicely. The large orders of easels, casts and lights have yet to arrive but the space is up and running enough for my self and two others to begin some projects. Working in the natural light is such an enormous treat.

Old Holland

2010-07-30T20:05:00.001-07:00

Happy Happy Joy Joy

Portrait workshop at the GCA II

2010-07-30T16:46:00.000-07:00

To the left, I had two sixteen year olds in this years workshop. Both incredibly talented and hard workers.

Portrait workshop at the GCA

2010-07-30T16:35:00.000-07:00

Today was the final day of my Portrait Painting workshop at GCA. What a wonderful and dedicated group of people. You all worked so hard and were such a joy to teach. Thank you all so much for a wonderful two weeks!

Why We Love Classicism....

2010-07-18T13:02:00.000-07:00

http://www.kunstler.com/eyesore_201006.html

A very serious website for intellectuals on why the classical tradition is so important to us. I highly recommend this site.

My New Studio at The Guild

2010-07-15T12:58:00.000-07:00

Success! Before and after pictures of The Guild. My new studio is now set up in the corner space where the metal "structure" was. Special thanks to Rodney for tearing down the drywall. The school will take over the remainder of the space. I must say, It is incredible to see ones dreams taking shape.

Saturday Portrait Class

2010-06-20T01:20:00.000-07:00

John, our model, subbed for a cancelation today, the four hour portraits the class created were amazing, unfortunately I only have photos of mine.

friend's drawings

2010-06-18T23:31:00.001-07:00

Here are two drawings that two of my good friends, Lucy and Kerry who have been drawing with me, have recently completed. Beautiful work you two!

Work Shop on Allegorical Painting

2010-06-18T11:02:00.000-07:00

Patricia Watwood is giving this incredible work shop in Brooklyn NY at the end of July! For information please call 917.597.2404

Orion Painting

2010-06-16T22:41:00.000-07:00

I have started modeling (shading) the fourth and final figure and am pretty happy with things thus far. I started this project six months ago. My goal is to finish up the drawing this month and stretch the canvas for the painting in July.

Classical Narrative Painting

2010-06-15T09:04:00.001-07:00

A new blog for Classical Narrative Painting @
http://classicalnarrativepainting.blogspot.com/

The Guild Atelier

2010-06-10T14:00:00.001-07:00

http://theguildatelier.blogspot.com/

Tuition & Curriculum now posted on The Guild's Blog

Orion Painting

2010-06-10T13:02:00.001-07:00

The third sister and the fourth and final figure is in!!!! I created the drawing shrunk it to size (am just eyeballing perspective) and transferred it, via photo copy, last night. Yes she is flying, not sure yet how to pull that one off.......... transforming into a dove like her three sisters above her which are now still blobs. Its still very sketchy but I love the connection between the "supported" and "supporting".

Bouguereau Painting on View

2010-06-07T20:49:00.000-07:00

This incredible masterpiece is open to the public for viewing at Christies Auction House. Don't know what more to say, no words to describe.....

Orion Painting

2010-06-04T10:53:00.001-07:00

To the left- My beginning sketch for the second Pleiades sister, third figure. And below...... Yeah! the grass is finished!

GCA Student Work

2010-06-02T15:39:00.000-07:00

To my students at GCA, you have given me so much, your efforts have fueled my own. Your dedication to the highest level of quality and craftsmanship has deepened my own appreciation for the tradition of Classical Painting. Each of your own moments of success has left me with feelings of great pride. I continue to support all of you and your continued education. I continue also to support the GCA and its incredible faculty, many of whom were students at Water Street with me. I am very sad to leave you but I hope you will all support my chasing my own dreams of a school dedicated to the genre of "Narrative" within Classical Painting.

My warmest wishes to you all and remember......

-Where is my light source

-What direction is the plane facing

-Gradation, gradation, gradation

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself"

-Leonardo Da Vinci

-May the form be with you all

GCA Student Work

2010-06-02T15:25:00.001-07:00

"Genius is eternal patience"

-Michaelangelo

Congratulations to this year's GCA students for their beautiful showing of their works!

GCA Student Work

2010-06-02T15:20:00.001-07:00

Congratulations to the students at the GCA for an unbelievable year of perseverance and dedication. You all should be incredibly proud.

A Joyous Farewell

2010-05-29T17:11:00.000-07:00

-To the Left the incredible talent of the GCA faculty, beer and hot wings.

I am so very grateful for the training I received from my teacher Jacob Collins. For many years I have watched him fighting the good fight. To bring knowledge and respect for the Classical Tradition back into the light.

In my own way I would like to fallow in his footsteps and bring about knowledge and respect for the genre of Classical Painting known as "Narrative". I am leaving the GCA to start up "The Guild". " The Artisans Guild for Classical Narrative Painting" will open up in Brooklyn this fall.

And to my fellow GCA faculty, It has been such a pleasure, we have had so much fun together. I will miss the GCA so very much and wish you all great success.

-Below, never have I had the pleasure of working with such a talented, wonderful and mature group of people. East Coast Rules!

Portrait Painting

2010-05-29T15:44:00.001-07:00

We were all very fortunate to have such incredible talent in this year's Saturday portrait class,Drawing by John and paintings by Bob and Carlos.

Red Chalk drawing below is my own contribution to the class wich has been coveted by my father for his "man cave" to be placed between his Civil War musket and his 1873 Winchester rifle

Portrait Painting

2010-05-29T15:22:00.000-07:00

We are rapping up the Saturday portrait class at the GCA. What a fun class it has been and the portraits are absolutely stunning. I am so very proud of my students! Thank you Tram for being such a wonderful and inspiring model. Eight, four hour sessions, is not a long time to finnish a portrait and I commend all of you for your focus and perseverance...may the form be with you......

Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

2010-05-26T23:34:00.000-07:00

2 Serv. Dost thou love pictures? We will fetch thee straight

A donis painted by a running brook,

A nd Cytherea all in sedges hid,

Which seem to move and wanton with her breath,

E ven as the waving sedges play with wind.

Lord. We’ll show thee Io as she was a maid,

A nd how she was beguiled and surpris’d,

A s lively painted as the deed was done.

3 Serv. Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood,

S cratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds,

A nd at that sight shall sad Apollo weep,

S o workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.

Portrait Workshop

2010-05-21T09:56:00.000-07:00

Ashley and I on the cover of this summer's American Artist Magazine.

http://www.artistdaily.com/blogs/workshopmag/archive/2010/05/25/workshop-summer-2010.aspx

Orion Painting

2010-05-20T23:18:00.001-07:00

Slowly but surely, coming to life.......and so unbelievably exciting. I am so gratefull for all of your emails, comments and words of encouragment. Enjoy

"A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs."

-Leonardo Da Vinci

New Red Chalk Drawing

2010-05-15T18:05:00.000-07:00

Orion Painting

2010-05-12T12:37:00.000-07:00

Here are the most recent updates for the Orion Painting. I spent a day drawing trees in Central Park. I am now in the process of getting the tree studies to work with the overall composition in the final drawing. Tree studies below. I purchased some potted grass to work from, hours and hours of drawing grass in perspective.....hmmm.

To the left, the drawing is starting to take shape, so so exciting. The continued struggle is giving the figures the feeling of action in the form of struggle which is quite different than the feeling of action in the form of skipping through the park. With so many figures there are so many individual opportunities for connection, infinite possibilities, overwhelming and incredibly gratifying.

This years ARC Salon Awards II

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also my painting, "The Death of Ariadne" received a "finalist" award.

http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/contest.php?contest=2009-2010%20Salon&page=Figurative

This years ARC Salon Awards

2010-05-08T18:14:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to GCA Instructors for placing in this years ARC competition. My "Narcissus" received an honorable mention. Cheh's Sculpture and Angela's drawing also received honorable mentions!

Art Renewal Center's web site:

http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/contest.php?contest=2009-2010%20Salon&page=HonorableMention#Figurative

Orion Painting

2010-04-22T14:37:00.001-07:00

Here are updates on the Orion Painting: I've completed a quick color study for the painting and have started working on Orion's head in the final drawing for transfer. enjoy

Trompe L'oeil Exhibition

2010-04-22T06:25:00.000-07:00

"Objects of Art" April 27 - May 29. Reception: May 8 Sat., 4-6pm - Still life featuring several works by Kirill Doron with guest artists: "Juliette Aristides, Camie Davis, Colleen Barry, Grace DeVito, Susan Durkee, Robert Palevitz, Catherine Puccio, Koo Schadler, Burt Silverman, Kate Lehman, Travis Schlaht, Jeremiah Patterson, Jesus Villarreal, Jane Taylor, Sandra Wakeen, Karen Winslow and Kelly Birkenruth.

-Above, my painting for the exhibition at Beardsley Fine Art Gallery in CT.

New Red Chalk Drawing

2010-04-22T06:09:00.000-07:00

"The Dancer"

Summer Drapery Workshop at GCA

2010-04-16T12:41:00.000-07:00

1: Drapery & Hair with Jiwoong Cheh

August 16-20 (5 days) • 10am - 5pm
$600 ($300 deposit)
* $1150 if you sign up for both the sculpture and drawing/painting workshops in drapery.Drapery Workshop, Week 2: Drapery Drawing • Camie Davis
August 23 - 27 (5 days) • 10am - 5pm
$600 ($300)

* $1150 if you sign up for both the sculpture and drawing/painting workshops in draperyIn the world of outdoor figurative sculpture there are not many nude figures but plenty of costumed ones! Students will learn the basic logical understanding of drapery and the sculptural treatment of hair.

Beginning students will work on one project each of drapery and hair. (The class will provide 5" tall sculpture head and drapery model.)

Intermediate and advanced students will sculpt a whole body in costume from the provided mannequin (the class will provide 16" tall wooden puppet.)

We highly recommend you sign up for both the sculpting and drawing/painting courses. Sculpting drapery is a key to understanding it well enough to draw and paint it.In week two of this drapery intensive beginning students will complete one finely rendered finished drawing of a fabric study in graphite. Intermediate and advanced students are welcome to complete either a drawing or painting and/or experiment with white chalk on toned paper.

Advanced students are welcome to bring in an already completed figure drawing/painting they wish to add drapery to. Along with covering the purely technical aspects of drawing and painting fabric this workshop will also include; insight into aesthetic fabric/figure composition, how to draw/paint various textures; cotton, silk, fur, how to create tension in fabric and how to approach pattern.

Weekend of Painting at Timberfield IV

2010-04-13T13:06:00.000-07:00

Over the weekend of April 9-11, 2010, Christopher ("Kip") Forbes hosted a group of 11 artists at his estate, Timberfield, in New Jersey. Roland Szegi and Chase Keller posed in the living room of one of the cottage and in a walled garden, and a number of artists painted landscape on the grounds. There will be a short article about the gather in the summer issue of Workshop magazine (http://www.artistdaily.com/), and an exhibition of the artists' work will be held in the fall at the Forbes Galleries at 60 Fifth Avenue in New York.

This was the sixth collaboration between Forbes,Inc and American Artist. Three were held at the Forbes Trinchera Ranch in Colorado (1996, 1999, and 2006), one at the Forbes Chateau de Balleroy in Normandy, France (1997), and one at Old Battersea House in London (2004). Following in the tradition of previous gatherings, the artists and hosts had an enjoyable time together, and the artists created great artwork.

Day two at Timberfield -A beautiful day, a beautiful view, sounds of birds and frogs by the pool and two beautiful cups of coffee, what could be better....

Weekend of Painting at Timberfield III

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The Artists:

Camie Davis

John Patrick Campbell

Eric Merrill

Bryan Le Boeuf

George Towne

Ed Terpening Wendy Walworth

Timothy Jahn

Patricia Watwood

John Dowd

Weekend of Painting at Timberfield II

2010-04-12T08:04:00.001-07:00

-To the Left, photos of the "Napoleon Room" before its transformation into "Painting Studio".

-Photo of the "Napoleon Room" after the transformation into "Painting Studio".

Mr Forbes, besides being a truely gracious host, is an avid collector and supporter of the arts. The main room of the cottages we were staying in was filled with "Everything Napoleon III" paintings, sculptures... everything. Beautiful...

Weekend of Painting at Timberfield

2010-04-12T07:48:00.000-07:00

This Weekend Kip Forbes and Steve Doherty invited ten artists, including myself, to a weekend of painting at the Forbes' Timberfield Estate. The grounds were beautiful, gardens, fields, sunsets and classical architecture. Here are some photos I took of the grounds around where we stayed.

Upcoming Show

2010-04-07T11:12:00.000-07:00

I will have two works in an upcoming group show in Connecticut.

Above "Girl with White Cherry Blossoms"

Below "Girl From Aberdeen"

"Esprit de Femme" June 1 - July 2 - The female spirit featuring guest artists: - "Glenn Harrington, Serge Marshenikov, Burt Silverman, Jon de Martin, Edward Eyth, Robert Palevitz, Camie Davis, Will St. John and more.

Reception June 12, Sat. 4-6 pm

Beardsley Gallery and Fine Framing located in the center of Fairfield County in beautiful Wilton CT. is relocating in April to a larger location at 196 Danbury Road, Wilton, CT (route 7 behind the red silo)