Kevin Macpherson

Kevin Macpherson - Workshop - 2010 2010 Master Artist Trip to New Zealand $6,950.00 Workshop Dates: 11/3/2010 - 11/12/2010 Location: New Zealand United States http://brushwithlife.com/New_Zealand.htm Registration Now Open for these unique Artist Travel Opportunities! To Register Call: 1-800-810-1374 / Ext# 3 Call now to reserve your spot with Kevin and Wanda Web site: http://brushwithlife.com/New_Zealand.htm Come with Kevin and Wanda Macpherson to experience some island paradise down under. Depart U.S. November 1, 2010; Workshop starts November 3, 2010, Depart New Zealand November 12, 2010 Participant: $6950; Guest $3450 Your adventure in this land of surprises will begin in Auckland, the City of Sails. Anticipate a wide variety of painting subjects from mountains, to beaches, to Maori culture. Travel by ferry to Waiheke Island with its picturesque farmland, vineyards and olive groves. A short flight takes us to the South Island’s, Queenstown and the shores of Lake Wakatipu. Paint the picturesque lakes and mountains of Central Otago. Everything is upside down. While it is autumn back home, you’ll enjoy painting spring in Arrowtown in the southern lakes district. Then it’s on to Fiordland National Park, one of New Zealand’s natural wonders with dramatic waterfalls and Milford Sound, a deeply glaciated fiord whose sheer sides rise 1500 meters from the sea. Return to Queenstown by 4WD through pristine and exclusive areas. Photographers are welcome and will be truly inspired by the rewarding visual content of our locations. In addition to the rich painting opportunities, this adventure will be filmed for the episodes, Zeal for New Zealand, for our PBS series, Passport & Palette. I will be painting, teaching and talking with you about your experience. Only 15 artists will have the opportunity to journey with me and be included in the episode. Description of trip: Please be advised the Master Artist Led Trips will be filmed and made part of the Passport & Palette® Series. Brush with Life, Inc. Productions will be filming these trips & expeditions and naturally we will need your consent to film you and your artwork. Therefore, once you have registered for the trip we will be sending you a Photograph & Video Release Form to sign. This will signify your permission to be included in the filming that will be done during the trip & expedition. We will, of course, be providing you with a complimentary - professional broadcast quality DVD of whatever series’ episode comes out of this filming and production – which will also serve as a great and unique record of this trip! Brush with Life, Inc. Productions - wants to assure you that the filming of the trip will in no way interfere with your trip or the time that we will have to paint with or without the master artist. The camera crew members are experienced filmmakers and will be shooting in an unobtrusive documentary style. Of course, as experienced cinematographers, producers and directors, if you think you will have a problem with being filmed during the trip & expedition, please ask us not to include any images of yourself or your artwork in the final production and/or consider taking an alternative trip with us that will not be documented. This artistic trip & expedition is for artists of all levels. Professionals seeking to work alongside like-minded individuals; as well as artists seeking a little more experience painting from life. The only requirement will be a passion for art & adventure. Spouses as well as Non-painters are also welcome - as the staff on-hand are travel experts and can arrange various other activities for their enjoyment. What is included: Private Single Rooms Credited Appearance on TV episode 7 Days of Painting with the Master Painter Kevin Macpherson (New Zealand) Group & Individual Critiques Hotel 4**** Star Property Room Category Standard+ Your choice of a Watercolor, Oil or Acrylic Basic Artist Painting Kit $100 worth of Multimedia Artboards™ Ground Transportation and Transfers On-site trip coordinator Guided Tour of Destination Daily Breakfasts and Dinners Group welcome and farewell dinners Two free days to explore, sightsee, shop, relax and/or paint ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEVIN MACPHERSON - Tahiti / Master Artist Led Trips Depart U.S. November 12, 2010; Workshop starts November 13, 2010, Depart Tahiti November 21, 2010 Registration Now Open for these unique Artist Travel Opportunities! To Register Call: 1-800-810-1374 / Ext# 3 Call now to reserve your spot with Kevin and Wanda Web site: http://brushwithlife.com/Tahiti.htm Come with Kevin and Wanda Macpherson to experience some island paradise down under. Participant: $6950; Guest $3450 Tahiti Queen of the Pacific Tahiti... Just the word...The world's definition of paradise. Tahiti, the largest island, towering over the ocean like a proud and royal Queen is appropriately crowned by a circle of majestic peaks. The mountainous interior is adorned with deep valleys, clear streams, and high waterfalls, all bathed in green iridescence of Mother Nature's light. The coastal lands, edged with a rugged coastline, are home to fields of tropical flowers and most of the island's population. Papeete, meaning the “water basket,” was once a gathering place where Tahitians came to fill their calabashes with fresh waters. Now the invigorating capital city and gateway of the country, boasts world-class resorts, spas, fine dining and unique restaurants, nightclubs, vibrant markets, pearl shops, and boutiques. Description of trip: Please be advised the Master Artist Led Trips will be filmed and made part of the Passport & Palette® Series. Brush with Life, Inc. Productions will be filming these trips & expeditions and naturally we will need your consent to film you and your artwork. Therefore, once you have registered for the trip we will be sending you a Photograph & Video Release Form to sign. This will signify your permission to be included in the filming that will be done during the trip & expedition. We will, of course, be providing you with a complimentary - professional broadcast quality DVD of whatever series’ episode comes out of this filming and production – which will also serve as a great and unique record of this trip! Brush with Life, Inc. Productions - wants to assure you that the filming of the trip will in no way interfere with your trip or the time that we will have to paint with or without the master artist. The camera crew members are experienced filmmakers and will be shooting in an unobtrusive documentary style. Of course, as experienced cinematographers, producers and directors, if you think you will have a problem with being filmed during the trip & expedition, please ask us not to include any images of yourself or your artwork in the final production and/or consider taking an alternative trip with us that will not be documented. This artistic trip & expedition is for artists of all levels. Professionals seeking to work alongside like-minded individuals; as well as artists seeking a little more experience painting from life. The only requirement will be a passion for art & adventure. Spouses as well as Non-painters are also welcome - as the staff on-hand are travel experts and can arrange various other activities for their enjoyment. What is included: Private Single Rooms Credited Appearance on TV episode 7 Days of Painting with the Master Painter Kevin Macpherson (Tahiti) Group & Individual Critiques Hotel 4**** Star Property Room Category Standard+ Your choice of a Watercolor, Oil or Acrylic Basic Artist Painting Kit $100 worth of Multimedia Artboards™ Ground Transportation and Transfers On-site trip coordinator Guided Tour of Destination Daily Breakfasts and Dinners Group welcome and farewell dinners Two free days to explore, sightsee, shop, relax and/or paint KEVIN'S NEW TELEVISION SERIES REFLECTIONS ON A POND Kevin Macpherson - PORTFOLIO OF ORIGINAL OIL PAINTINGS Kevin Macpherson » About the Artist Kevin Macpherson, one of the country’s leading plein air painters, is highly respected among collectors and fellow artists alike. Past President of the Plein Air Painters of America, Kevin is a popular instructor, guest lecturer, and art jurer throughout the country and abroad. His painting workshops are highly attended, often selling out years in advance. Kevin is sought after as an art judge, curator and speaker around the country. Now in its ninth printing, Macpherson’s painting instruction book, Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light and Color, has been translated into the Chinese language and has quickly become a best-seller for publisher North Light Books. Kevin's clear, concise teaching method has inspired and directed thousands of plein air painters. Born in 1956, this artist’s work is nationally recognized and collected, having attracted the attention of major art collectors, including Roy Rose, the grand-nephew of acclaimed California plein air painter Guy Rose. Kevin has won numerous national awards, including so many in national Oil Painters of America competitions that he is the first artist in the organization to be elevated from Signature Member status to that of Master Signature Member. Kevin excels in his ability to paint all subject matter: landscape, still life, and figurative works. Using spontaneous brushwork and candid color, Kevin’s work reveals his interpretive and creative virtuosity. He easily manipulates the elements of an artist’s "visual toolbox" to capture the mood of his subject, whether it be the dramatic light of southern France, the rugged beauty of the California coast, or the brilliance of dappled light through a floral still life. Kevin’s work has been featured in many national magazines, Art of the West, Art Talk, U. S. Art, Wildlife Art and gracing the covers of Southwest Art, American Artist, International Artist, and The Artist’s Magazine. Contributing editor to Southwest Art Magazine, author of "The Artist’s Voice, 2000". In addition to numerous gallery exhibitions,he has shown at the Gilcrease Museum, the Arizona State Capital and the Albuquerque Museum. The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA, Millicent Rogers Museum, Taos, NM, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, National Wildlife Museum, Jackson, WY, Carnegie Art Museum, California, Forbes Museum, New York City, NY. He has also authored two books, Landscape Painting - Inside & Out and REFLECTIONS ON A POND, A VISUAL JOURNAL. Kevin now makes his home in the mountains of Taos, New Mexico, merging his influences from years in Arizona with his childhood memories of New Jersey. Bitten with wanderlust, Kevin and his wife Wanda can be seen anywhere in the world painting en plein air. http://kevinmacpherson.com © 2009 Kevin Macpherson

Tonalism Movement

Artists by Movement:
Tonalism

America, circa 1880 to 1910 Tonalism is a style of painting in which landscapes are depicted in soft light and shadows, often as if through a colored or misty veil. Imported to the U.S. by American painters inspired by Barbizon School landscapes, it was a forerunner to the many schools and colonies of American Impressionism which arose in the first part of the 20th century. The most influential practitioners of the style were George Inness, whose roots were in landscape painting, and James McNeill Whistler, whose approach was primarily aesthetic, aiming for elegance and harmony in the colors of a painting. Tonalism's soft-edged realism also had an influence on the photography of the early 20th century - specifically on Alfred Stieglitz and his circle.

Chronological Listing of Abstract Expressionists

George Fuller	1822-1884	American Painter
William Morris Hunt	1824-1879	American Painter
George Inness	1825-1894	American Painter	Art Prints
James McNeill Whistler	1834-1903	American Painter/Printmaker	Art Prints
John La Farge	1835-1910	American Painter	Art Prints
Homer Dodge Martin	1836-1897	American Painter
Alexander Helwig Wyant	1836-1892	American Painter
Maria A'Becket	1840-1904	American Painter
Robert Swain Gifford	1840-1905	American Painter	Art Prints
John J. Enneking	1841-1916	American Painter	Art Prints
Ralph Albert Blakelock	1847-1919	American Painter
Albert Pinkham Ryder	1847-1917	American Painter	Art Prints
Charles Melville Dewey	1849-1937	American Painter
Dwight W. Tryon	1849-1925	American Painter
Charles Harry Eaton	1850-1901	American Painter
Thomas Wilmer Dewing	1851-1938	American Painter	Art Prints
Ben Foster	1852-1926	American Painter
Julian Alden Weir	1852-1919	American Painter	Art Prints
T. Alexander Harrison	1853-1930	American Painter	Art Prints
John Francis Murphy	1853-1921	American Painter	Art Prints
John Henry Twachtman	1853-1902	American Painter	Art Prints
Lowell Birge Harrison	1854-1929	American Painter	Art Prints
Leonard Ochtman	1854-1934	Dutch/American Painter
Charles Harold Davis	1856-1933	American Painter
Franklin de Haven	1856-1934	American Painter
Charles Appel	1857-1928	American Painter
Bruce Crane	1857-1937	American Painter
Charles Warren Eaton	1857-1937	American Painter
Henry Ward Ranger	1858-1916	American Painter
Elliott Daingerfield	1859-1932	American Painter
William Langson Lathrop	1859-1938	American Painter
Charles Paul Gruppe	1860-1940	Canadian/American Painter
Arthur Frank Mathews	1860-1945	American Painter	Art Prints
Karl Emil Termohlen	1863-1938	Danish/American Painter
Leon Dabo	1865-1960	French/American Painter
Louis Paul Dessar	1867-1952	American Painter
Chauncey F. Ryder	1868-1949	American Painter
Henry Percy Gray	1869-1952	American Painter
Xavier Martinez	1869-1943	Mexican/American Painter
Granville Redmond	1871-1935	American Painter
Aaron Harry Gorson	1872-1933	American Painter
Max Meldrum	1875-1955	Scottish/Australian Painter

The Journey! Impressionism

Impressionism Centered in France, 1860's to 1880's Impressionism is a light, spontaneous manner of painting which began in France as a reaction against the restrictions and conventions of the dominant Academic art. Its naturalistic and down-to-earth treatment of its subject matter, most commonly landscapes, has its roots in the French Realism of Camille Corot and others. The movement's name was derived from Monet's early work, Impression: Sunrise, which was singled out for criticism by Louis Leroy upon its exhibition. The hallmark of the style is the attempt to capture the subjective impression of light in a scene. The core of the earliest Impressionist group was made up of Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Others associated with this period were Camille Pissarro, Frederic Bazille, Edgar Degas, Gustave Caillebotte, Edouard Manet, and the American Mary Cassatt. The Impressionist style was probably the single most successful and identifiable "movement" ever, and is still widely practiced today. But as an intellectual school it faded towards the end of the 19th century, branching out into a variety of successive movements which are generally grouped under the term Post-Impressionism.

Chronological Listing of Impressionists

Alphonse Maureau	19th Century	French Painter
Johan Barthold Jongkind	1819-1891	Dutch Painter	Art Prints
Eugene Boudin	1824-1898	French Painter	Art Prints
Camille Pissarro	1830-1903	Caribbean/French Painter	Art Prints
Edouard Manet	1832-1883	French Painter	Art Prints
Martin Rico y Ortega	1833-1908	Spanish Painter
Edgar Degas	1834-1917	French Painter/Sculptor	Art Prints
Stanislas Lepine	1836-1892	French Painter	Art Prints
Alfred Sisley	1839-1899	French Painter	Art Prints
Marie Bracquemond	1840-1916	French Painter	Art Prints
Claude Monet	1840-1926	French Painter	Art Prints
Frederic Bazille	1841-1870	French Painter	Art Prints
John J. Enneking	1841-1916	American Painter	Art Prints
Armand Guillaumin	1841-1927	French Painter	Art Prints
Berthe Morisot	1841-1895	French Painter	Art Prints
Pierre-Auguste Renoir	1841-1919	French Painter	Art Prints
Arthur Parton	1842-1914	American Painter	Art Prints
Emil Jakob Schindler	1842-1892	Austrian Painter	Art Prints
Mary Cassatt	1844-1926	American Painter	Art Prints
Harriet Backer	1845-1932	Norwegian Painter
Luis Jimenez Aranda	1845-1928	Spanish Painter	Art Prints
Max Liebermann	1847-1935	German Painter	Art Prints
Theodore Clement Steele	1847-1926	American Painter
Frits Thaulow	1847-1906	Norwegian Painter	Art Prints
Gustave Caillebotte	1848-1894	French Painter	Art Prints
Lilla Cabot Perry	1848-1933	American Painter	Art Prints
Michael Ancher	1849-1927	Danish Painter	Art Prints
Jean Beraud	1849-1935	Russian/French Painter	Art Prints
William Merritt Chase	1849-1916	American Painter	Art Prints
Eva Gonzales	1849-1883	French Painter	Art Prints
Albert Lebourg	1849-1928	French Painter	Art Prints
John Ottis Adams	1851-1927	American Painter
Richard B. Gruelle	1851-1914	American Painter
Jean-Louis Forain	1852-1931	French Painter/Illustrator	Art Prints
Theodore Robinson	1852-1896	American Painter	Art Prints
Julian Alden Weir	1852-1919	American Painter	Art Prints
John Henry Twachtman	1853-1902	American Painter	Art Prints
Colin Campbell Cooper	1856-1937	American Painter	Art Prints
Henri Moret	1856-1913	French Painter	Art Prints
Edward Henry Potthast	1857-1927	American Painter	Art Prints
Willard Leroy Metcalf	1858-1925	American Painter	Art Prints
Maurice Prendergast	1858-1924	Canadian/American Painter	Art Prints
Medardo Rosso	1858-1928	Italian Sculptor	Art Prints
Helen M. Turner	1858-1958	American Painter
Robert Vonnoh	1858-1933	American Painter	Art Prints
Anna Ancher	1859-1935	Danish Painter
George Elbert Burr	1859-1939	American Painter
George Wharton Edwards	1859-1950	American Painter/Illustrator
Abbott Fuller Graves	1859-1936	American Painter	Art Prints
Childe Hassam	1859-1935	American Painter	Art Prints
Otto Stark	1859-1926	American Painter
Theodore Wendel	1859-1932	American Painter	Art Prints
Laura Muntz Lyall	1860-1930	Canadian Painter	Art Prints
Dennis Miller Bunker	1861-1890	American Painter	Art Prints
Theodore Butler	1861-1936	American Painter
Charles Courtney Curran	1861-1942	American Painter	Art Prints
Walter Griffin	1861-1935	American Painter
George Gardner Symons	1861-1930	American Painter	Art Prints
Frank Weston Benson	1862-1951	American Painter	Art Prints
Frantz Charlet	1862-1928	Belgian Painter	Art Prints
Robert Reid	1862-1929	American Painter	Art Prints
Edmund Charles Tarbell	1862-1938	American Painter	Art Prints
Laureano Barrau	1863-1957	Spanish Painter
Maxime Maufra	1863-1918	French Painter	Art Prints
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida	1863-1923	Spanish Painter	Art Prints
Paul Cornoyer	1864-1923	American Painter	Art Prints
George Loftus Noyes	1864-1951	Canadian/American Painter
Olga Boznanska	1865-1945	Polish Painter
Frank Dumond	1865-1951	American Painter
Philip Leslie Hale	1865-1931	American Painter	Art Prints
William Samuel Horton	1865-1936	American Painter
Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov	1865-1911	Russian Painter	Art Prints
Reynolds Beal	1867-1951	American Painter
William DeLeftwich Dodge	1867-1935	American Painter	Art Prints
Guy Rose	1867-1925	American Painter	Art Prints
Lawton Parker	1868-1954	American Painter
Chauncey F. Ryder	1868-1949	American Painter
Max Slevogt	1868-1932	German Painter	Art Prints
Wilson Irvine	1869-1936	American Painter
Edward Willis Redfield	1869-1965	American Painter	Art Prints
Bessie Potter Vonnoh	1872-1955	American Sculptor
Louis Betts	1873-1961	American Painter
Frank H. Desch	1873-1934	American Painter
Charles Ebert	1873-1959	American Painter
Albert H. Krehbiel	1873-1945	American Painter
Ernest Lawson	1873-1939	Canadian/American Painter	Art Prints
Will Howe Foote	1874-1965	American Painter
Frederick Carl Frieseke	1874-1939	American Painter	Art Prints
Pierre-Eugene Montezin	1874-1946	French Painter
Edward Cucuel	1875-1954	American Painter
Richard Emil Miller	1875-1943	American Painter	Art Prints
Edmund W. Greacen	1876-1949	American Painter
Jane Peterson	1876-1965	American Painter
Gertrude Fiske	1878-1961	American Painter
William Chadwick	1879-1962	American Painter
Helen McNicoll	1879-1915	Canadian Painter
Catherine Wiley	1879-1958	American Painter
Daniel Garber	1880-1958	American Painter	Art Prints
Martha Walter	1880-1976	American Painter	Art Prints
Julian Onderdonk	1882-1922	American Painter	Art Prints
Guy Wiggins	1883-1962	American Painter
Walter Emerson Baum	1884-1956	American Painter
Henrietta Mabel May	1884-1971	Canadian Painter
Fern Isabel Coppedge	1888-1951	American Painter
Louis Ritman	1889-1963	Russian/American Painter
Arthur Hill Gilbert	1894-1970	American Painter
Richard Earl Thompson	1914-1991	American Painter	Resource:http://www.artcyclopedia.com/