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About mbwilsonart

I’ve been drawing, painting and sculpting for more than 50 years and teaching, drawing and painting for 20 years. As a teenager I began to study to be an illustrator where I had classical training in the fundamentals of drawing and painting realistically, which I still use in both my own work and is the basis of my teaching. After graduating from the Boston Museum School I set up a studio in Waltham, MA, where I still work.

Online Painting Classes: Realistic and Expressive Techniques

Posted on February 23, 2026 by mbwilsonart

For Beginners and Intermediates | Acrylic & Oil Join this interactive online painting class, held live on Zoom, designed for newcomers wanting to learn the basics and for intermediate students seeking a refresher. Using photographs for reference, with acrylic or … Continue reading →

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Highly Recommended: Brushstrokes: Every Picture Tells A Story

Posted on August 29, 2025 by mbwilsonart

A Terrific 4 part series for art history enthusiasts, hosted by the enthusiastic and compelling Waldemar Januszczak. Not what you’d expect an art historian to sound or look like, more Bob Hoskins than Colin Firth. Mr. Januszczak investigates a single … Continue reading →

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Classes Summer 2025

Posted on May 4, 2025 by mbwilsonart

Once again, I am offering private and group summer classes in drawing and painting online, both privately and also through the New Art Center in Newtonville, and online. First, an online class for both newcomers to painting who want to learn … Continue reading →

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Waltham Artists Open Studios – Nov 2 & 3

Posted on October 23, 2024 by mbwilsonart

Please join me for the 58th Annual Waltham Open Studios! https://www.walthamopenstudios.org/

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For the Love of Painting

Posted on October 23, 2024 by mbwilsonart

I get bored with going through the work on a painting if I’m not painting for the love of it. That sentence contains two motivations for creative work: boredom and love. Making art for the love of it is really … Continue reading →

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A Change of Style Update

Posted on July 17, 2024 by mbwilsonart

A funny thing happened after that flurry of exciting new paintings that I wrote about in the previous post. In that post I was wondering if they were heralding a change in style or were just “one-off” paintings. I tried … Continue reading →

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A change of style or a one-off?

Posted on June 19, 2024 by mbwilsonart

I’ve been doing most of my painting as demonstrations in teaching my painting classes, and in spite of all my good intentions I finish few of them at home in the studio. In part because I hear the teacher in … Continue reading →

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Summer 2024

Posted on May 20, 2024 by mbwilsonart

I will also be teaching a few classes at the New Art Centerin Newton. There will be two Zoom classes: beginning painting on Monday morning and Painting Intensive on Friday morning. Although the title for Monday’s class is “Foundations for … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 23, 2023 by mbwilsonart

I gave a class assignment this week to paint this: So I then did this: And this: I cut out the shapes in order to see them as themselves, independent of the rest of the image. Especially the leaves, which … Continue reading →

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A brief explanation of summer classes 2023

Posted on June 13, 2023 by mbwilsonart

Today I received a request for what my painting classes are like, and here is my reply: In the painting classes I teach, both in my studio and on Zoom, we paint from still-lifes and photographs, including the human figure. … Continue reading →

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