More Photos from Salt Lake City

Here are some more photos from my presentation in Salt Lake City.

Presentation for Utah Watercolor Society

On Tuesday, December 15 I presented a demonstration entitled “Intuitive Abstract Painting With Acrylics” for the Utah Watercolor Society in Salt Lake City Utah. The presentation was sponsored by Utrecht Art Supplies.

The event was attended by over eighty artists from the UWS and ISA (Intermountain Society of Artists). After being introduced I gave a brief description of my background and art experience and then I got right down to work. I alternated between painting on two full sheets of watercolor paper that had been prepared with one layer of gesso, textured with modeling paste and sealed with matt medium. While painting I talked about abstract painting techniques, the history of abstract painting, the importance of composition and color and answered questions from the audience. A video camera was provided which recorded the event and also projected my presentation on a large overhead screen for all to see. We took a small break after an hour and a half after which I returned to the easel and completed one of the paintings in the fifteen or twenty minutes I had left.

I had a wonderful time and enjoyed the enthusiasm of the audience. Many thanks to the Utrecht Art Supplies and to the Utah Watercolor Society for inviting me to present to their group.

The Artist Hines on Video

I finally downloaded the video of me painting in my Sausalito Studio on YouTube. My friend Steve, a retired CBS cameraman, captured me from start to finish producing one of my Abstract Paintings. It was an incredible experience and I have gotten wonderful feedback from viewers, artists and friends. Utrecht Art Supply store was so impressed by the video that they put it on their corporate web site. The San Francisco store on Van Ness Avenue also put it on their store Blog.

The painting actually took four hours to complete but Steve ingeniously edited the video footage to 7.5 minutes. In the video I am wearing my IPOD and listening to the music of the heavy metal band Rammstein. The music was dubbed over the video so you can hear the actual music I was listening to while painting. There is a point in the video where my brush is moving so fast that even I thought that Steve sped up the video.

The vigorous dance like feel to my movements reveals my love of performance and displays my physical approach to Abstract painting.

Click the photo or the link to watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pVgTMdXacE

Nude Gestures Show at ICB Building

The show opened on Thursday August 9 at Gallery 111 in the ICB Building. It just in time for the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce Mixer. The exhibition hightlighted the works of six artists (Dana Draper, Rhoda Grossman, Larry Gilmour, Allen Lavee, Mardi Horowitz and myself) from the Tuesday morning figure drawing session held in Dana Draper's studio. The drawing sessions focuses on short gestures poses so all the works in the show were from poses lasting no longer than ten minutes.

Typically at drawing sessions I would take a realist approach to drawing the model so when I began attending Dana's Gesture sessions I struggled with the time factor. But later I had an epiphany and decided to take a more abstract approach. Suddenly my sketches began to free up and I began enjoying refocusing my attention, from perfect rendering to using pen and ink to produce beautiful gestural lines accented with colorful splashes of watercolor.
The show runs through August 15th. 480 Gate 5 Road, Sausalito, Ca.