-
Recent Posts
Archives
- February 2026
- August 2025
- May 2025
- October 2024
- July 2024
- June 2024
- May 2024
- September 2023
- June 2023
- March 2023
- March 2022
- October 2021
- September 2021
- April 2021
- December 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- August 2019
- April 2019
- April 2018
- October 2017
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2015
- January 2015
- November 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- November 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
Categories
- Follow mbwilsonart on WordPress.com
Tag Archives: painting
Online Painting Classes: Realistic and Expressive Techniques
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
Highly Recommended: Brushstrokes: Every Picture Tells A Story
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
A change of style or a one-off?
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
Posted in Paintings
Tagged art, artist, landscape, oilpainting, painting, paintings, sunflowers
1 Comment
Summer 2023 Painting Classes
I’m offering 2 summer painting classes this summer, beginning June 14 through August 4. Classes will meet from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Wednesdays classes will be at my studio in Waltham and Friday mornings will be on Zoom. … Continue reading
UPCOMING WORKSHOP
Painting Drapery and Fabrics Workshop Back by popular demand, I will be teaching a workshop on how to paint fabrics and drapery on consecutive Thursday, March 30 and April 6 at the New Art Center, Newtonville on March 30 and … Continue reading
Learning to paint plein air: materials
I been going outdoors to paint plein air again this summer, both as a teacher and just for fun. Therefore, I’m also a student, trying to improve. I thought I’d share what I take with me. Today I’ll show my … Continue reading
Posted in Paintings, Teaching
Tagged How to paint landscapes, landscape painting, painting, painting lessons
1 Comment
Thinking About A Painting From 28 Years Ago
A few weeks ago I received an email from a woman who, with her husband, bought a painting of mine, Violet Dawn (below), from the Peyton Wright Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, dated 1991. So, it would have been purchased in … Continue reading
Posted in Paintings
Tagged abstract, acrylic paint, arts, How to create textures and patterns with acrylic, painting
Comments Off on Thinking About A Painting From 28 Years Ago
TC Cannon at the PEM
This past weekend Rosemary and I went to the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) to see the TC Cannon and the Georgia O’Keefe exhibits. I loved it and am really glad I saw it. I knew that Cannon was a … Continue reading
Carrying On
I keep a file of good quotes I come across, and this is one I return to now and again, attributed to John F Kennedy when he was president: “The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes … Continue reading
mbwilsonart 