Qiang Huang's Oil Workshop

2016 Photograph of Mary Cassatt painting

This week I will be attending Qiang Huang's oil painting workshop with the Village Arts in Putney, Vermont. Qiang paints impressive still life's which are characterized as having a freshness to them. Of the paintings I have seen of his work, which have all been online, none seem overworked. As in most media it seems quite easy to end up overdoing it. He admires Richard Schmidt's work as most of us do, so perhaps we will luck out and get a visit from the master.

When my wife and I were at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine this summer, we checked to see if some of our favorite paintings were still to be found hanging on the walls as we often do. I would say that this Mary Cassatt(1844-1926) painting, Anne and Her Nurse circa 1897 is one of my favorites. This was proudly exhibited in one of the main galleries.

This photograph was posted because I need to be thinking in an oil painting mindset for the next four days. I particularly like the warmth of the colors Cassatt used and more specifically the child's skin tone.