Fall Landscape Class for Humans

First weekend in October begins my Fall Landscape class.
I am going to offer a cautionary tail to demonstrate why YOU should take this class.

Let's have a look at this guy. He had not taken my class, and despite all the hoopla about his work, frankly it sucks. I am sorry Jimmy the Chimp, but it is just awful.

AP Photo by Felipe Dana

Now a lot of noise has been made about how this ape "artist" is expressing himself, but one could make the argument that the chimp is expressing himself whilst flinging poo. Yes, while that can be hilarious, unless you are on the receiving end of that expression,  it certainly is not art.
Neither are his paintings!

So, don't be like Jimmy the chimp. Sign up for my class and be civilized!- be Human! If you have seen the movie the Plant of the Apes, you have seen what can happen if people don't study painting.

Fall Landscape Painting Class

Saturdays, Oct. 2 thru November 20, from 10 am to 1 pm.

Come enjoy the cooler weather and the fall colors.  With "Cincinnati's most charming painting teacher", we will meet at various  scenic parks around Cincinnati to learn to sketch and to paint with oils. Drawing on the ideas of impressionism, you will practice the techniques needed to complete painted sketches, including basic composition, value, pattern, color spotting, and covering the canvas. Then, building on those skills, you will complete a larger fully realized landscape painting that will capture the impression of light and color of the Cincinnati landscape. In case of rain, we will arrange in parks with overhead cover. Details and directions to the various locations will be given in class. No experience necessary- student must be a human. $179; supplies are the student’s responsibility. A list will be sent with your enrollment confirmation or see  http://www.uc.edu/ce/documents/commu/10UCommu.pdf
Location: First class will meet in my studio in Eden Park; then at various parks thereafter 

richard_luschek@yahoo.com, 

To register go to the following link and sign up now.

http://www.uc.edu/ce/

Totally Nuts

Here are two paintings that I am calling The Modern Relationship or The Couple or Nut and Bolt or Something Else Equally Clever.

Thoughts? What should I call these?  I really enjoy exploring the male and female symbolism that can be found in two pieces of hardware. Who doesn't really? If you look deeper for fancy, college goin', psychological meaning you can see how the wrench brings them together with it's rugged masculine straight form forced through the nut panel, and how the same wrench has feminine curves slithering in on the bolt (male) panel.  Cause that's what it's all about really, each member of the relationship tossing a monkey wrench in the life of the other?

  Nut and Bolt (The Couple) Working title- each one 3 1/2" x 2 1/2", oil on linen

Didn't know I was so sneaky did you? Actually I have no idea what the hell I am talking about, it is pretty much just a nut and a bolt. But they do make a cute couple.
I know it is a tired subject , but I do like shiny things.
Here they are in some of those fancy Castner frames I have been telling you about.