All classes listed here are at Asbury Woods Nature Center

Coffee Break Watercolors! (no, not watercoolers)

Daytime Watercolor Classes now available by Popular Demand

If you have been interested in expanding your painting skills in watercolor and have some midday time on your hands, this is the series for you. Join watercolor artist Brian Payne and explore the joy of watercolor. Have a cup of coffee (or tea) relax and let your inner artist explore the wonders of this lovely medium. An informative and often fun filled class takes students through drawing, composition and color theory along with the practice and skills to help make you a better artist.

Classes forming now: starting March 23rd and continuing March 30th and April 6th from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm .Three class series $75.00

April Showers… time to make a splash without all the mud Watercolor Workshop- Find the Artist in You!

A lot of people have given up in frustration when they try watercolor painting, but with the right materials, guidance and patience you can do it. Join watercolor artist Brian Payne for an informative and fun workshop that will release the watercolor artist in you. Please register early to insure your spot for this popular program. All skill levels encouraged to participate. Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:30 – 3:30 pm Cost: $30.00 per person Note: Brian will have a limited amount of 300 pound watercolor paper for sale as students have expressed an interest in past classes for this material.

Suggested materials list:

Pencil and Eraser

paper towels

spray bottle

300 pound watercolor paper – very heavy weight takes abuse or a watercolor block

“artist” grade tube watercolors such as Winsor Newton, Holbein: Alizaron Crimson Cadmium Yellow Cobalt Blue Hooker’s Green Payne’s Grey Burnt Sienna Lemon Yellow/ Hansa Yellow

Large Flat Pan or Pallette for laying out paint and mixing

Large Water Container

large flat wash brushes 1/2″ to 2″

round brushes #4, #8

liner or rigger detail brushes

Please feel free to bring any photographic reference you might want to work from as well.

Watercolor Classes now forming! By popular demand! Want to continue with more instruction and a friendly setting? Join up for our classes with Brian Payne to be held from 6pm to 8pm on the following dates : April 20th April 27th May 4th Cost: $75.00 for three classes 6 to 8 pm

Roses are red, and I’m sure blue, ’til that day comes ’round when I kiss you!

Just use your imagination and let your creativity flow. Your significant other will cherish it more than you may know

When things were a tad bit warmer....

Back by popular demand, I will be heading up a three part classroom series on watercolor painting. It should be a fun class with plenty to do as I will be covering composition, drawing, and color theory. Asbury Nature Center will host the classes Beginning tonight (Jan 26) from 6pm to 8pm and continue the following two Tuesdays (Feb 2 and Feb 9 ) at the same location and time. If you have the time take advantage of this great opportunity. Call Asbury Woods Nature Center at (814) 835-5356

Traditional Fine art originals and prints

What constitutes art? Or fine art? What is good or bad art? Questions often pondered and left for the “experts” to decide. Which is fine- but before you answer that, I suggest:

Art, if viable, engages a viewer or audience, suggests an emotion, a memory, a journey and / or a vision that is completed by the viewer and becomes an interaction that is neither static nor all telling. Art has to give and take so that you want to look at it again and again.

Simply said If YOU like it – it is good art to YOU. Isn’t that enough?

Working primarily in watercolor, Brian Payne offers his visions available in originals and fine art prints. Commissioned work is always welcome with free estimates for all serious inquiries.

Providing retail and wholesale products for the gift industry via shows and local stores for the past several years has enabled Brian to have a unique understanding of manufacturing and design. His ideas are proven sellers. Now, licensing is available for interested companies wishing to use Brian’s art for their products. Please contact Brian Payne to discuss further.

THE PROCESS

Technical skills, tricks and methods aside….

The process of creating art is sometimes thought of as a spark that ignites a vision and in turn produces the end product.

More often than not it does start with a spark but it is in the doing that the art comes to being. The act of using one’s mind and body together and the interaction of materials, emotion, and ideas are what power my synthesis to the end result. When it works, the final piece is more than the initial vision – and yet not the whole of that vision either. It is a compromise between the brain and the artists’ ability, the limits to what can be processed from that “spark” and to what is actually rendered.