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Art Class August 2014

Art Class August 2014

Art Class August 2014 • Dalton, Ga 30720 Hello 🙂 I hope you are doing well, I wanted to share another painting from our art class with you from our August Class in Dalton, GA. I teach this class monthly if you are going to be near by and want to come paint let me...

Painting Class July 2014

Painting Class July 2014

July class painting • Tennessee mountain home. This was a fun painting we did in our July painting class, I love to paint old shacks and houses, oh and I almost forgot barns.  I wanted to paint a place where I could get away to, you know a...

Art Class  June 2014

Art Class June 2014

Art Class June 2014 • Dalton, Ga 30720 Hello 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, I hope you are doing great on this day that God has made, and I hope He has blessed you greatly! I have a new post from my June 2014 art class. I hope you like it?! The colors I used are listed...

May Class 2014

May Class 2014

Hello, I hope you are doing fantastic?  Here is the class project painting from May 2014, we had fun painting this I hope you can give it a try also? If you do I would like to see your work, feel free to send me a photo of your artwork. This painting is currently For...

April 3 Class 2014

April 3 Class 2014

Hey, hope all is well I am posting a new painting today I know I did not post last months painting but will soon it is at a local gallery and I do not have a good photo of it at the moment, I will put it up in the blog here later in the month. 🙂 anyway here is what...

Wisteria -Art Lesson

Wisteria -Art Lesson

Colors: Titanium White, Cerulean Blue Ivory Black, Vandyke Brown, Vermilion Red, Lemon Yellow Brushes: 1 Inch Landscape Brush, Fan Brush, Script Liner, Palette Knife, Filbert Other: Base White Medium, Linseed Oil The canvas has a thin coat of base white medium before...

February 6th Art Class 2014

February 6th Art Class 2014

Hi Everyone , This was our painting project for February I call it "Mountain Road" It is mixed medium we painted black gesso or you can use acrylic to under paint the background trees let dry for around 30 minutes or more, then coat the entire canvas with a clear oil...

Old Homestead-Painting Project

Old Homestead-Painting Project

    From the above pictures, you can see I started with blank white canvas and added a black acrylic sketch to lay in the basic design of the painting then I added a very thin even coat of linseed oil, but you can use any choice of oil medium to do this step with....

Jan 2014 class

Jan 2014 class

This was the painting subject for our January 2014 class at Dalton,GA This Original Painting is for sale to inquire contact me, the size is 20x16, oil on canvas. Signed and comes with a certificate of authenticity. Colors I used are : Titanium White Prussian Blue Cyan...

How To – White Base Medium

How To – White Base Medium

How To Make  And Apply • The Base White Medium For Wet On Wet Painting Often I get question about the medium used in wet on wet painting, it is called various names through different manufacturers, Alexander calls it Magic White, Bob Ross calls it Liquid White, and so...

Great New Things Coming!

Hello I hope your Christmas Holidays have been wonderful as we come to a close for 2013 I want to say thank you to all loyal customers and friends I have met through the world of painting this year, I hope to meet many more artist in the coming year. I want to tell...

Christmas Sale at Thompson Studio

Christmas Sale at Thompson Studio

I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas this year we are offering something new this Christmas we are calling it our Holiday Bonus Sale, it includes all 18 videos (Downloadable Versions) that have been produced, plus a FREE set of brushes, and on top of that we will...

October brings a new video art lesson

I am proud to say that we have a new video out "Winter Night River" check it out a new 93 minute video with two separate sections of learning you can add as much detail to the painting as you like Michael shows you how you can change the entire mood of the painting,...