Carol Marine
A Painting a Day
DATE: February 13 - 17, 2012
COST: $690
SKILL LEVEL: All levels
Whether you are painting for a living or hobby, painting small and often is a powerful way to rapidly improve your skills.
There is a fast growing group of people, called daily painters, who do small paintings every day, post photographs of their paintings on a blog, and then sell them through eBay, with a usual starting price of $100. In this way, many artists are finding they can grow quickly in skill and finally make a living with their art, after struggling for years in galleries and at art fairs. Carol has had 3+ years of experience daily painting and teaches workshops around the US and Canada.
During this 5-day workshop, we will spend most of our time on the basic principles of design – the rules of composition, value, color, and shape – and how to apply them to small still lives. We will then experiment with color relationships using an alternative to the traditional color wheel, explore color mixing, and how each color “leans” towards others. We will push our compositions to avoid “floating” objects and learn the one, simple rule to avoid a boring still life. There will be daily demos, handouts and one-on-one critiques.
Finally, we will learn how to set up a blog, the in’s and out’s of ebay, shipping and marketing your work, etc. There will be reference material on this to take home.
THIS CLASS IS CURRENTLY FULL
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Carol Marine's Bio
http://www.bluecloudstudios.com/
Carol Marine was born in Sheridan, Montana, and raised in the very small town of Harper, Texas in a dome house designed and built by her parents. Her mother is a weaver and a potter, and her father builds boats. Her parents always assured their children they could do anything in their lives they wanted, and that it was better to have a job they enjoyed than to make a lot of money. Carol’s family has been her greatest influence and inspiration.
After graduating from Harper high school, Carol spent four and a half years at the University of Texas in Austin. She graduated in the fall of 2001 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art, and a focus in painting. During Carol’s college days she met and married David Marine, with whom she now lives in Austin, TX. David is her greatest fan and most helpful critic. With this union Carol acquired two, lovely step-daughters, Sophie and Maddie. On April 4, 2005, Carol and David adopted Wayne Jacob Marine, then just 2 days old (seen in photo above).
On October 5th, 2006, Carol began the practice of doing one small painting a day and posting them on her blog. Each of these small paintings is for auction on Ebay & through her ebay store. Since then Carol has begun teaching workshops across the country about daily painting, and is a member of Daily Paintworks, a distinguished group of daily painters. Carol divides her time between painting in and out of the studio, teaching, and family adventures.
Carol is represented by:
Wally Workman Gallery in Austin, TX
Rivervend Fine Art in Marble Falls, TX
Windrush Gallery in Sedona, AZ
Nueva Street Gallery in San Antonio, TX
Corse Gallery Atelier in Jacksonville, FL
Galeria Gardner in San Miguel, Mexico
