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Biography

Ned is a very accomplished and highly respected artist, having been drawing and painting for over 65 years.He has been designated as a “Master Artist” with both the Oil Painters of America and the American Impressionist Society.  He is a graduate of the prestigious Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles where as still a student he also taught drawing classes. He has participated in many of the major invitational shows in the country, including the “Artist’s of America Show”,”Great American Artist’s Show”, “National Academy of Western Art”, “Oil Painters of America”, “Laguna Plein Air Show”, “Pastel Society of America”, “The Autry Western Masters Show”,  “The Northwest Rendezvous Show” and the annual “Plein Air Painters of America Exhibition. Ned has had three exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum in Seatte and has shown in some of the Finest Galleries in the country, has won numerous awards and is included in many private fine art collections. He is a Signature member of the Oil Painters of America, American Impressionist Society, Plein Air Painters of America. California Art Club, Northwest Pastel Society, Puget Sound Group of Northwest Artists, Northwest Rendezvous Group, and the American Society of Marine Artists. He continues to challenge himself to grow artistically. Ned is asked to jury Regional and National Art Shows and he loves to teach and share his many years of knowledge and experience by teaching classes and workshops, regionally, nationally and internationally

Painting Supply List

I do encourage beginners to work on drawing and value studies and in a dry media such as Bistre Conte or compressed charcoal on smooth newsprint or some other smooth paper. Intermediate or advanced you can work work in oils or pastels doing value studies or full color portraits. I will do most of my full color demos in oils, and if there are any pastel people, I will have a presentation of still photos of my process  for them.. The process is pretty much the same as with oils. Bring a full palette to work from.. I use Titanium white, lemon yellow, cad yellow light, cad orange, cad red light, alizarin Crimson, brown madder, chrome oxide green, viridian, cobalt blue, ultramarine blue and ivory black. If needed I will use some thalos and a permanent rose. I mostly use an assortment of brights from two to 10, but use what you are comfortable with. Bring a good size palette. A good sized brush cleaner container .. I use odorless mineral spirits . Small cup for your medium.. You can use mineral spirits or what you are use to….palette knife and paint scrapper and some paper towels. For panels or canvas bring three or four 9″x12″ and up to 11″ x 14″ or 12″ x 16″. I usually use linen.. Just don’t bring the real cheap panels or canvas boards. Pastel artists bring as large an assortment of pastels as you can..some light toned Canson paper or other paper that will hod the pastels. Art supplies are expensive, do the best you can..but too cheap paints, brushes and canvas can make you frustrated and lose some confidence!  You can work from your own photos or use my selection…you need a decent photo with good light and shadow shapes..I may ask you to use mine if I feel your photos are not good enough to work from. We plan on having some great faces to work from and we will have a grand time working from them!”

Drawing Supply List

For all of you students this drawing or dry media workshop; the supplies you need should be quite minimal for most of you. You may work in Conte or Charcoal, but there are some stipulations on the kind of Conte and Charcoal, unless you have been working in them for awhile and have a pretty good grip on what you are doing. The Conte I would like you to have is the Bistre or Sanguine, preferably the Bistre as it is a nice rich dark brown and easy to manipulate. It usually comes in a plastic package of two at most Art supply stores…BUT you have to be careful as they are easily broken in those packages and so you need to check them to see if there are any hairline cracks where they are broken..you can usually tell by looking through the plastic.  I will show you how to taper and sand them down at the workshop. So bring your Conte….hopefully you can get the Bistre…if the store only has black, that will have to do, but it is difficult to work with..at least two sticks worth (Bistre) and a bit of sandpaper and a kneaded eraser. If you have a mat knife   Get a pad of SMOOTH Newsprint…the 18″ by 24″ size. You can also use some regular white or bond type of paper..but keep it on the smooth side.  For you Charcoal souls I prefer the compressed Charcoal..it is about the same size as the conte and comes in different degrees of softness or hardness and try and get the softer ones as they are easier to work with. I prefer the 2b version of the compressed charcoal. Also check to see if they have been broken in the package. Buy a pad of 18″ by 24″ drawing paper or a smooth surfaced bond like paper. Also a kneaded eraser. It takes awhile to get use to a medium ( meaning Charcoal or Conte) and so it wouldn’t hurt to mess around with them at home a little  to see how it works for you…be  patient..it takes some time to figure their characteristics, their advantages and disadvantages!  I will be doing a demo or two at least the first thing the first two mornings.  Let me know if you have any questions. The total cost of your supplies with conte or charcoal, eraser and drawing paper should come to around $20 or less. Make sure you have a drawing board larger than your 18″x24″ paper. You can save some money if you can cut your own from masonite or one ply plywood. also two metal clips to hold your pad and paper.   We will be working from Photos and at least one day from photos that I am bringing..if you prefer your own..that might work, but I will have to see them to make sure they have the shadow patterns and lighting to learn from..I have a great selection of photos people can work from that we will get to you. We will also talk about how to take great photos of a model and get them to pose well with great lighting!  Bring a good sense of humor..not always that easy for us, but we will work hard…but try and have a good time doing it!   Looking forward to seeing everybody!. All my best, Ned

All my best, Ned