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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

BOWL OF PEACHES 8" x 10" oil (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY COLLECTOR FROM WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA

Strawberries In Silver Bowl 8x8--oil (AVAILABLE!)

CANTALOUPE SLICES Oil 8"x10" (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY COLLECTOR FROM NORTH MIDDLESEX, VERMONT

GUINNESS BEER Oil 10"x8" (SOLD)

PRIVATE COLLECTION IN SPRING HILL, TENNESSEE

BUBBLE YUM BUBBLE GUM oiI 7X5" (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY COLLECTOR FROM UNITED KINGDOM

Friday, May 25, 2007

ONIONS 8" x 10" oil (SOLD!)

PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA
AUCTION RESULTS!

Thursday, May 24, 2007

CHERRIES IN SILVER BOWL 8" x 8" oil (SOLD!)

PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM MARBLEHEAD, MASSACHUSETTS
SEE AUCTION RESULTS!

RALPH LAUREN PERFUME Oil 7"x5" (SOLD!)


RESULTS!
PURCHASED BY COLLECTOR FROM SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA

LEMONS & LEMON TREE BRANCHES--8x10"--oil- (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM SEAFORD, VIRGINIA

Pecan Spins "Aunt Hannah" 8x10" oil (AVAILABLE)

White Tulips 6x6" Oil (AVAILABLE!)

Thursday, May 10, 2007

OIL PAINTING DEMONSTRATIONS, 2 hours by Hall Groat II



Description of DVD
Hall Groat II American Artist

Instructional DVD & Manual, Volume 1 Traditional Realist Oil Painting

American artist, Hall Groat II, in his unique instructional DVD series demonstrates the techniques of the lost art of traditional realist oil painting. In volume #1 he presents five comprehensive demonstrations, offering nearly 2 hours of solid instruction. The demonstrations included are of compositions involving: three lemons, radishes, ballet slippers, railroad conductor’s pocket watch, and teacup & saucer.

Through his innovative, step-by-step approach he outlines the process that was used by such 19th century painters as Edgar Degas and Edward Manet. Using an easily understood teaching approach, Hall reveals the secrets behind creating dramatic light and shadow illusions to compelling atmospheric spaces, all the way to rendering convincing three-dimensional illusions of form and space.

The included DVD, along with the accompanying manual, present a concise step-by-step system, offering both the beginning and the professional artist the necessary tools to successfully create traditional realist still life oil paintings. Such topics are covered as establishing background variation and movement, accents and cast shadows, and realizing the primary and secondary planes of the motif. Each of the five demonstrations is divided into phases with clearly stated topic headings that correspond to the steps presented in the instructional guide. A glossary of painting terms is also included! All of the demonstrations are approximately 15-30 minutes in length.

Hall has taught art for over twenty years, and currently is an Associate Professor of Art at a college in New York. ARTNews Magazine critic, Gerard Haggerty, states that Hall Groat II’s still life paintings evoke the big picture that we call art history, including painters like Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Edwin Dickinson, and his teacher Lennart Anderson." Collectors of his work have expressed that the work is “Alive, full of grace vitality and beauty, capturing light that is sublime in nature.”

Groat is included in important private and public collections worldwide. These include actors, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones, Clear Channel Communications, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cellular One, Sheraton Hotel Corporation, Binghamton University, Everson Museum of Art, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute of Art, The State University of New York system, Roberson Museum and Science Center and Washington Jefferson College.




Tuesday, May 08, 2007

JAFFREE BALLET SLIPPERS (composition #7) 8"x10" (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM GLEN ALLEN, VIRGINIA

Saturday, May 05, 2007

DORITOS--"tortilla chips" --8x10" (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM PLANO, TEXAS
I’ve been also working on a series of larger-scaled pieces that portray various fast foods, including McDonald’s and Burger King. These works will be presented this summer on a separate blog and will be complimented by short films that document various aspects of America’s obsession with fast food, including a look at the powerful and influential forces that propel multinational food chains into the global economy.

Thursday, May 03, 2007

HALF MOON COOKIES----8"x10" Oil (SOLD!)


PURCHASED BY ART COLLECTOR FROM VIENNA, VIRGINIA