Torch for Encaustics - Video

For someone afraid of fire, sure need heat to create art! This is a demonstration of what a creme brulee torch does for encaustics.


If you cannot see the video here, go to my video page by clicking on this link.


You are invited on May 7th at Dharma Studio during Coconut Grove's Second Saturday Art Walk. My art and that of Jason Eldridge will be on display this evening from 7pm to 11pm. The art and event is friends and family friendly! See you there! 


Smiles, 
Angeline Marie of 
Angeline Marie Fine Art
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How to Paint a Rose from Video Series

Rose Demo - 2009 - ©Angeline Marie

How to Paint a Rose With Oils —powered by eHow.com

Little matter that this video is over a year old...the information is still relevant. Painting a rose in about a minute was a challenge, even if I think it did turn out more like a carnation. I still like it, but am not sure I kept it.

Changes since that video shot in December, 2009 (or was it July?) are 

1. the studio where it was shot is no longer available to me

2. those jeans are long gone

3. the large painting in the background is finished

4. any videos since are produced by me (so know how much work goes in each).

Life changes...life goes on...but we always have adventures! Speaking of adventures, will share one with me? On May 7th, at Dharma Studio during Coconut Grove's Second Saturday Art Walk, my art will be on display this evening from 7pm to 11pm. The art and event is friends and family friendly! More details coming soon!

Angeline-Marie

Angeline-Marie's Fine Art

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Cleaning Art Studio Ritual

This little video shows how messy an artist can be...and how picked up an artist can be, too. 


Simon, our little studio sentinel cat, also makes an appearance in this little video.


Smiles, 
Angeline Marie of 
Angeline Marie Fine Art
Facebook Page for Angeline Marie Fine Art

Video: Triptych - At the Beach - Beginning of Mixed Media Paintings

One of my favorite painting surfaces is canvas. Acrylic paint acts differently on canvas than on paper. These are three sponsored original paintings that can be hung individually or together. The beach is one of my favorite places to enjoy...and combining the beach with a Key West inspired sunset is scary and fun.

A future post will include photos of changes to the paintings since the time of this video.

Need to visit YouTube to watch the video? Please click on this sentence to take you to AngelineMarieArt's YouTube Channel.

Your turn: If you were video recording an artist, what would the artist be doing in the video?

Smiles,
Angeline Marie of
Angeline Marie Fine Art

Video Part 2: Encaustic with Gouache

Second video trying the encaustic with gouache technique. Still not what I expected, but this was still fun.


Will I try this technique again with another art piece? For now, probably not....What is your thought on this technique? Should I give this technique another try?


Smiles, 
Angeline Marie of 
Angeline Marie Fine Art

Angeline's Artistic Stages

Video: Angeline's 3 Art Stages, 2010

When I look back on the "body of art work" from my last ten years, there are some distinct style and knowledge changes in my style of art. When you look at the work by an artist, you want to see growth and change as time passes. Those changes mean that the artist is studying, learning, practicing, and creating. Those changes mean that the artist is truly an artist: no matter what happens, he or she is always searching for ways to learn and stretch.

This speech concentrates on three stages that I have noticed in my art work. I look forward to having more stages...and if you have a better word than "stages," please share!

This speech was one of my first three given at the Florida City Speedway Toastmaster's Club earlier this year (2010). As with most of the speeches, it is between 5 and 8 minutes long (just warning you!). If you saw my last video speech, you would probably agree that my public speaking skills are improving.

If you could not see the video in this blog post, please click on this link to view.

For last video speech posted, go to post "Defining Moment" by clicking on this sentence.

Featured paintings:

Flamingo Ballerina - 2004 - acrylics on canvas - 24 x 20 inches - $350

Deering Estate Palm Trees - mixed media on canvas - 24 by 20 inches - 2008 - $450 

Primitive - encaustic techniques on board - 5 x 7 inches - 2010 - $150

A Defining Moment

Video is about 7.5 minutes...


Speeches have to be from 5-7 in Toastmasters...just warning you...! 


Tuesdays, for the Florida City Speedway Speakers is meeting day. Thought I would post a video here. There is a funny mistake, caught by those in attendance. Find it?


Got the idea from the Adrienne Arsht Center series of workshops from April and May, 2010. 


Smiles,
Angeline-Marie
Angeline Marie's Fine Art

Angeline Marie using Encaustic Techniques

This video is just to give you a little idea of how I use beeswax. The more technical term for beeswax painting is "encaustics." There are lots of ways and ideas of how to use encaustics.


Some of my completed encaustic paintings are inspired by the book Encaustic Workshop. There are great techniques, ideas, and processes in this book I have yet to try. 


For more information about my encaustic art, please visit my webpage 
Angeline Marie's Fine Art / Encaustic. There you will find other examples of encaustic art as well as the blog posts about each completed piece. 


Thanks for enjoying the video. If you have further questions and/or comments, please feel free to leave a comment on this blog. 


Smiles!
Angeline Marie of
Angeline Marie Fine Art

Video - Cutting Wood for a Cradleboard

As an artist, I try to be creative with materials and my costs. The actual time to cut this little piece of wood was more like four minutes, but you are welcome to watch for less than two. After this fun experience, it reinforces my need of buying art supplies ready for paint instead of assembling anything before or after the fact.


Special thanks to Andy, who filmed and helped narrate this video. 





This video is less than two minutes in length.




The actual idea I was trying to assemble is the "cradleboard" that is 3/4 inches thick, as can be seen if you click through to DickBlick.


If you have any ideas of art stuff you would like to see in video, please leave me a comment.


Hope you enjoy the goofiness of our video!
Angeline Marie of
Angeline Marie Fine Art

"How to Paint a Tree" Video Series

Tree - 2010 - paint on canvas - 7 x 5 in.

Please view the video at "How to Paint a Tree."

In the 1980s, there were few specialty summer camps and classes for children. My parents made it their mission to find classes for me, and succeeded once with a short-lived Saturday morning class. My father and the instructor would chat every Saturday about how the classes did not receive the expected participation and would be discontinued. Where could Angie be sent to learn more? What can we do to get her more into the arts? What are the options for her? When the class ended, there was nothing available…so I continued to be frustrated with crayons, poor quality markers, and limited public and private art school teachers.

One thing I learned from that class still influences me: my love of drawing and painting trees.

Smiles,
Angeline Marie of
Angeline Marie Fine Art

"How to Paint a Portrait" Video Studios

Click here to view How to Paint a Portrait.

"You want me to paint a portrait in one minute," I exclaimed to Paul. He admitted that most artists he previously filmed for this task failed miserably. The worst case scenario was that the video would never be published. I can live without the video being published, but found to my surprise that it was!

This video is just hilarious. The person in the portrait looks like no one I know. The painting can be considered an "underpainting," as in the first layer of paint on a canvas. Some traditional painters use this technique of underpainting to begin their art works, no matter the subject. For me, this painting is just the beginning of a portrait and is in no way finished in a minute or so. It will soon, if not already, be covered up with another painting (unless you wish to purchase it, ha-ha).

If you wish to see some amazing portraits, click here to get to Lori Pratico's site. Portraits are her gift to the art world.

What do you think about the video? Comments welcome!

Angeline Marie of

Angeline Marie Fine Art

"How to Paint a Dog" Canvas Art from Video Series

"In Memory of Champagne," paint on canvas, 7 x 5 in., 2009

See the video at "How to Oil Paint Dogs."

In December, 2009, Paul Louis contacted me for a few more videos for TVLesson and eHow internet video channels. My being the ham, I said yes, and we spent most of an afternoon shooting videos. Paul said that it may take a while before the videos are accepted and published...and in this busy life, I forgot. Google Alerts did not notify me like the last time...but surprise! The video of this little dog is online!

This little dog is for all those children who always begged, pleaded, and cried for a best friend. I had a two temporary pets in my life: Pinta Roja (red-winged black bird) and Champagne. Champagne was a little white toy poodle which I later learned was one most hypo-allergenic dog breeds to own. We were the best of friends for a few weeks, until the car drove him away to a new home. Both Pinta Roja and Champagnes are long stories...perhaps I will make their stories into speeches for Toastmasters and link those videos here in a future blog post?

This video turned out to be one of the favorites of the day....I hope you enjoy it!

Smiles,

Angeline Marie of 

Angeline Marie Fine Art

Attended Presentation: Using Video to Gain Exposure & Build Community: Do It Yourself

Last night at the PressitOn Gallery was extremely exhilarating and exciting. I reconnected with Blanca Caraballo and Elizabeth Chacon, met Facebook friend artist Rosie Brown in person, and made some contacts with other people of other fields. The information given during the meeting from Jessica Kizorek about videos and websites was encouraging and motivating.



Jessica Kizorek is definitely an expert in marketing. I attended the meeting to refresh how to take my own videos and left with many ideas of how to continue incorporating them into my website. There were three main tips of how to make a video:

1. LOOK at the camera lens while videotaping.
2. Have good lighting.
3. Speak clearly and loudly. Make sure you can be heard. Minimize background noise.


Having made a couple of videos by myself, those are great tips to remember when using videos in your website. Jessica made her tips and presentation very funny and informative, with great use of examples of how and when to use videos. My pen couldn’t write quickly enough, and ideas kept me awake last night. I wrote all of my ideas down, so they are captured!


Special thanks to Jessica Kizorek for the book that she autographed about how to take great videos. There is a lot of art work to do, and luckily I enjoy most of the creative process. Videos are creative, too! I have two books are that guaranteed to be dog-eared by the end of June: I’d Rather Be in the Studio and Show Me: Marketing with VIDEO on the Internet.


For more information about future presentations, please click on the supporters of last night’s program:

Life is Art and Association of Women in Communication

If you get a chance to visit PressitOn Gallery, do so. The art was super. Smiles!

Angeline Marie of
Angeline Marie Fine Art

"How to Paint: Ocean, Sand, & Tree" Video Series

Of course, this piece is far, far from finished. The original thought was to reMAKE an older fine ar painting, a bit larger than the original's 8x10 inches for a couple of friends of mine. Being a few days before their arrival, they took the original painting home with them. Funny thing is, no matter how I try, I can never paint the same thing the same way twice.

Acrylics on canvas, 11x14 inches is the one above, that was used the TVLesson video series:

How to Paint Sand                        How to Embellish a Painted Sky               How to Paint an Ocean

The painting below is the original, now at a new home in Illinois. Blown Palms, acrylics on canvas, 8x10inches, 2005.

Maybe, one of these days, I will finish the new painting!

Smiles,

Angeline Marie of

Angeline Marie Fine Art