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AMERICAN

ARTIST ®

SPRING 2010

Workshop
FOR OIL & ACRYLIC PAINTERS ®

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CONTENTS
4 Editor’s Note

6 Paul DeLorenzo: Learn the Basics of Academic


Figure Painting
BY M. STEPHEN DOHERTY
Having been trained by two of the most important
American academic artists, Paul DeLorenzo was in a
unique position to introduce workshop participants to
techniques based on 19th-century educational programs.

26 Burton Silverman: Learn a Complete Language,


Not Just Phrases
BY M. STEPHEN DOHERTY
One of the most venerated artists working today, Burton
Silverman offers students a language of art they can use
to express ideas and emotions. “I try to help people
develop a broad understanding of the creative process so
that they can draw and paint more than what they
superficially observe,” he explained during a recent
84 workshop in New York City.

52 40 Sherrie McGraw: How to Capture a Life Force


in Artwork
BY M. STEPHEN DOHERTY
In a recent two-part workshop, Sherrie McGraw showed
students how to create drawings and paintings that
respond to the feeling of vitality in a model’s pose or in a
still life arrangement.

52 Charles Harrington: Discover the Best Qualities


and Potential of Acrylics
BY M. STEPHEN DOHERTY
During a three-day workshop, Charles Harrington
taught participants how to take full advantage of acrylic
paints and mediums and how to avoid problems with
the fast-drying, water-soluble paints.

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62 Thomas V. Nash: Improving Overall by Focusing COVER

on Your Biggest Weakness John Morra teaching


still life painting in
BY BOB BAHR New York City.
This successful portrait painter suggests that oil Photo by Nathan
painters consider their progress in terms of their Kraxberger
entire process, both to ensure consistency in
approach and to eliminate problems that may be
holding them back.
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72 John Morra: Explore the Many Potentials
of Still Life Painting 6
BY M. STEPHEN DOHERTY
Because a still life is a flexible and inventive subject
for painting, John Morra asks workshop participants
to try a variety of approaches, some of which are
quick exercises and others that are carefully planned,
detailed explorations.

84 Michelle Dunaway: Painting From the Center


BY MICHAEL ZAKIAN
This New Mexico artist believes that truly great art
results from an honest approach to painting,
centered on responding to what moves you as a
painter and making that the focal point of the work.
In a recent workshop in Southern California, she
showed students how she applies this approach to
her figurative and portrait subjects.

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