Jeremy Lipking

Open Studio Exhibition Dec. 3rd 2011

2011-11-13T21:58:00.000-08:00

My open studio exhibition is coming up and I have some amazing artists participating this year, Rose Frantzen, Quang Ho, Amy Lind, Tony Pro, Casey Baugh, Joseph Todorovitch, Michael Klein, Ignat Ignatov, Glenn Dean, Logan Hagege, Michelle Dunaway, Alexey Steele, Ronald Lipking, Nicholas Coleman and Korin Faught.

December 3rd 2011, 5:30pm - 9:00pm 28233 Agoura Rd. Agoura Hills CA 91302

View the paintings online here

Easel Notes...

2011-08-22T17:38:00.000-07:00

Hot off the easel, two new paintings are featured this weekend at the Maynard Dixon Country Show in Mt. Carmel, Utah.

The two paintings in the show, pictured below, are "Puesta Del Sol De Los Muertos", 22"x 30" and "Sierra Cirque", 30"x30".

The prestigious event attracting top-notch artists from all over the country is hosted by The Thunderbird Foundation For The Arts and runs from August 24 to 28th, with a gala reception on the evening of the 27th. Some landscape painting in between!

OTHER STUDIO NEWS, a new semester of teaching begins Tuesday September 6th from 7 to 10pm. Students will paint from the model. All aspects of the Lipking approach will be covered. See bottom image, demo, "Nude in Repose, 12" x 24".

Contact www.lipking.com for more info. Click here to sign up and pay.

"Puesta Del Sol De Los Muertos", 22"x 30"

"Sierra Cirque", 30"x30"

"Nude in Repose", 12" x 24"

More easel notes to follow...

Sierra Landscape Painting Workshop

2011-07-19T14:34:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures from my landscape painting workshop in the Sierra's. We made the town of June Lake our base camp and each day went out to paint a different location between Yosemite and Mammoth Lakes. We all had a great time, great weather and some amazing subjects to paint.

Painting a waterfall in Lee Vining Canyon

An Aspen grove in Lee Vining Canyon.

I had Bartche Miller from the Mono Lake Committee come give an amazing talk on the geology and natural history of the Sierra Nevada.

Ellery Lake and Ellery Bowl.

Painting on the shore of Lake George. Because of the record snowfall this year there was still a huge amount of snow on the ground above 9000 ft. Some of the lakes I was planning on taking the group were still frozen over and under 8 feet of snow and probably wont be open till the end of July.

Mono county is the least populated county in California and there are no cities nearby to cause light pollution, this makes for an amazing night sky.

After a day of painting we went down to South Tufa at Mono Lake to watch the sunset. Cody was the only one with the energy to pull off another painting.

After the last day of the workshop we relaxed with some wine at hilltop hotsprings.

My workshop demos.

Donate $10 for Tsunami Victims and Win One of my Paintings

2011-05-13T17:08:00.000-07:00

This raffle ends Sunday, so if you are going to donate, do it today.
By donating to Japaneeds you will be entered into a drawing to win my 12"x9" figure painting.
With each $10 donation you will be entered in a drawing to win the prize. Every $10 donation counts towards a ticket so the more you donate the more chances you have to win.
[IMPORTANT READ THIS]
There are other prizes so to enter for my painting you NEED to put the code: "Lipking Painting" in the comment box at checkout.

click here: Japaneeds

Female Figure Study 12"x9" oil on linen

Monochromatic Nude

2011-05-11T16:37:00.000-07:00

Reclining Nude (monochrome) 30" x 50" oil on linen

This is a fun technique I haven't done in a while. I used Terra Rosa and black with a couple stiff brushes a kneaded eraser and oil primed linen.

Google Art Project: Google Maps street view for Museums

2011-02-02T09:13:00.000-08:00

I just spent the morning exploring some of the museums that I've never visited in person. Check it out its loads of fun. The images are very good quality and hi resolution.
Google Art Project

My Star Wars Art: Visions painting

2010-11-02T14:50:00.000-07:00

The Star Wars Art: Visions book just came out and is available from amazon. I was pretty surprised when I saw they used the sketch for my painting "Yobana" on the title page. The book was written by Lucasbooks executive editor Jonathan Rinzler and George Lucas and includes paintings by artists who don't normally paint SciFi subjects. Artist like Jamie Wyeth, Michael Grimaldi, Will Wilson, Daniel Greene are some of the guys who did work for the project.

The subject for my painting "Yobana" is a young female Twi'lek slave.

Heres a mini documentary about the project on youtube

Heres a pic of my 4 year old Jacob painting some strokes on the arm.

The finished piece.

Yobana 14" x 30" oil on linen

New Paintings: Maynard Dixon Country Show

2010-08-16T09:58:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple new paintings I'll have available in this years Maynard Dixon Country show August 27th - 29th in Mt Carmel UT. There are some great landscape painters in the show like Clyde Aspevig, G. Russell Case, Glen Dean and T. Allen Lawson just to name a few.

North Lake Falls 12 x 9 oil on linen

Heres a picture of my easel with the waterfall in the background. North Lake falls is up in the Eastern Sierra.

Shoreline Shadows 6 x 8 oil on linen

Figures iphone app

2010-06-03T14:34:00.000-07:00

If you have an iphone or ipad check out my free app in the itunes app store. It is a digital version of a portion of my Figures book, the images are hi res too so it looks good on the ipad too.

Here's a youtube video of the app in use.

My One-Man Show in NY

2010-05-20T11:46:00.000-07:00

Opening reception for my solo show is Thursday June 10th 6 - 8pm at Arcadia Gallery NY.
Im also doing a painting demo in the gallery on Saturday the 12th 2 - 4pm
51 Greene Street New York, NY 10013 phone: 212-965-1387

Skylar in Blue 16" x 12" oil on linen

Portrait Society Competition and Panel

2010-04-22T08:59:00.000-07:00

My portrait of Danielle will be on display at the PSOA annual portrait conference and competition April 22nd-25th at the Hyatt Regency in Reston VA.

Also Friday 23rd 4pm EST Im moderating a panel discussion, Realist Revolution and Critical Relevance. Watch it LIVE on Ustream

The Future of Art Criticism and the Most Symptomatic Panel at MOCA

2010-04-16T13:41:00.000-07:00

“It is not criticism’s job to move Art forward, it’s Art’s job to move Art Forward…It used to be in the past – not any more.” -Bennett Simpson MOCA curator

Alexey Steele and I attended this panel discussion at MOCA last month while we were preparing for our own panel on a similar topic as it relates to the realist movement coming up in D.C next week. Here's some of what Alexey wrote on the Novorealism blog.

funeral of Art criticism

AS WE KNOW IT

Anybody who ever wondered just how bad things really are in the formerly mercurial Arts Valhalla of fate of the art and artists weighing in their divinely guided hands demigods - just had to attend that panel.

Curious and excited about the forward looking premises of the panel, a really top-notch level of participants and primarily the uniqueness of the fact that the panel was sponsored and initiated by the venerable Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism of USC, no less, Jeremy and I just decided, yeah…we gotta see that and just jumped into our cars to dive into the pain of LA’s rush hour. What wouldn’t you do for a freebie. What we came to experience was nothing short of shock…well nothing less could be expected from MOCA after all…yet likely not in a way participants intended.

Instead of a welcoming party for the new, it turned out to be a funeral for the old.

On the other hand, don’t get me wrong(unless you really want to and that’s fine too) it is precisely the sky-high level of participants that made the totality of this experience possible….like the never scoring soccer match of equals, don’t expect goal after goal – that’s mostly for light-weights, but enjoy the swift and unnoticeable subtlety of moves.

To say that the mood was far from joyous excitement of welcoming that strange “new”, is to say nothing. In fact it was so heavy, you could cut it into bricks and it had the feel of a press conference of a short-lived August Putsch at the end of a Gorbachev era that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union or as we say in Russia “the flies were dying”…yet below this apparent dullness of dead water, I felt a tectonic shift of plates in the ocean floor of ART. Nothing less. Exciting – you bet, at some point, I wanted to jump up from my seat screaming “yeah!” Almost did. Cannot really believe some were leaving half way through.

First the panelists:

Andrew Berardini - a cool very young dude, wearing black, of course in super-cool glasses

Sharon Mizota – a sharp as a tack, calm and concise heroine of Tarantino movies

Bennett Simpson – now…that was a surprise…but that later…solid, polished, refined corner stone of the establishment…he really did carry the panel in so many ways.

And, the best for last, moderated or rather “inquired” by an enormously intelligent

Sasha Anawalt of Annenberg – booooooy what a lady…. gotta love democracy and its so very few remaining despite all journalists.

And here IT began....... read the rest here

Realist Revolution and Critical Relevance

2010-03-19T13:01:00.000-07:00

I'm moderating a very important panel discussion in the Washington D.C area Friday night April 23rd with some REALLY top notch panelists, Jacob Collins, Alexey Steele, James Panero and Dr. Vern Swanson. It is part of the PSOA conference but it's free and open to the public (reservations required) contact  Christine Egnoski at info@portraitsociety.org or call 877-772-4321

  Contemporary Art:  
REALIST REVOLUTION 
and  
CRITICAL RELEVANCE  
Is Main Stream Media Missing an Important Cultural Trend?   

Friday night April 23rd 2010 4:00pm  Hyatt Regency Reston, VA   

Premises:  There is an actually existing, wide-spread, multi-faceted Realist movement in the Art world today. It is functioning as a set of specific tools, philosophy and practice. As any major art movement in history - it is a common visual language based on a common world view.  This movement is current, relevant and forward - looking . This movement is part of presently existing contemporary Art  This movement is a reflection of an important aspect of our modern world - democratization of cultural plane.  
more info http://www.lipking.com/realistrevolution.html

The Opening for Will.i.am's "Who Killed the Music" exhibit at the Grammy Museum

2010-01-25T13:58:00.000-08:00

Here are some of Jonathan Lipking's photos from last night's opening of the Who Killed the Music exhibition at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibit is on view now till Jan. 27th 12 - 6pm

Artist Lola Gil and her piece

Mandy Thomas, Jeremy Lipking and Joseph Todorovitch

Artist Alexey Steele, Jeremy Lipking, Danielle Lipking and Joseph Todorovitch

Poet Name Life and a friend. Poet DJ'd at the event

artists Jeremy Lipking, Paul Chatem, and Ronald Lipking

model Esther de Jong and Jeremy Lipking

Arcadia Gallery owner Steve Diamant with Will.i.am

Jeremy Lipking, Will.i.am, Ronald Lipking

Jonathan Lipking and James Van Der Beek

Ronald Lipking and Ashley Lipking

Jeremy Lipking and Danielle Lipking

My artists profile for the Who Killed the Music exhibit

2010-01-25T13:32:00.000-08:00

The Who Killed the Music exhibition is open this week at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.

Who Killed The Music Grammy Exhibition

2010-01-18T22:13:00.000-08:00

I have a piece in Will.i.am's "Who Killed the Music" Grammy Exhibition. Set to coincide with the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, the show will feature artwork from Camille Rose Garcia, Audrey Kawasaki, Van Arno, Lola, Richard Colman, Mercedes Helnwein, Kris Lewis, Paul Chatem, Nathan Spoor, Justin BUA, Jason Thielke, Gregory Euclide, Sarah McColgan, Travis Louie, Ron Lipking, and me. The exhibit is open to the public January 25th - 27th 12pm - 6pm at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.

Gulf Connoisseur article

2010-01-11T10:42:00.000-08:00

Check out my article in the new issue of Gulf Connoisseur magazine, its a large format magazine with good reproductions. Its published in the Middle East so it may be hard to find in the States but you can read it online .

The Maiden Heist movie featuring my painting is out on DVD

2009-12-07T09:40:00.000-08:00

The movie The Maiden Heist (featuring my painting "The Lonely Maiden") starring Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken and William H. Macy is available now on DVD. The whole painting was somewhat invented, including the girl painted by combining Marcia Gay Harden who plays Roger's (C. Walken) wife, with LA model Toni Czechorosky.
In the movie you can see some extreme close ups of the painting, here are a couple shots I took before sending the painting off to the set. Because the painting was supposed to be painted by fictitious painter (Marcel de Robert) belonging to a fictitious late 19th century painting movement (Post French Naturalist) I wanted the paint to be thicker and look more layered than my own paintings and look a little more like the Naturalist painters. I had a limited amount of time to complete the piece so I used Galkyd Lite medium to minimize the drying time. See my older post where I talk a little more about creating the painting for the movie.

California Figure Workshops

2009-10-07T18:01:00.000-07:00

I'm having two 3-day workshops at my studio this November. We'll spend the first two days painting the figure in the studio and the last day we'll paint the figure outdoors. The cost is $495.

sign up online:
November 6th-8th
November 13th-15th

more info here

New Paiting Video

2009-07-29T12:57:00.000-07:00

I just finished shooting my new video, painting a nude outdoors. It was shot over two days in an Aspen grove up in the Eastern Sierra. I dont know how long the editing process will take but I'll post an ETA here when I can and I'll put up a teaser here sometime soon, in the mean time here are some photos.

What else do you do when you're on a break with your crew? Teach everyone gang signs.

My painting in the film The Maiden Heist

2009-05-01T14:34:00.000-07:00

My painting The Lonely Maiden is starring alongside Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken and William H. Macy in the upcoming film The Maiden Heist.
When I first met with the director he opened up the Gabriel Weisberg book Beyond Impressionism: the Naturalist Impulse, (which is probably the most worn out book on my shelf) and said "we need something like this" a painting in the manner of Naturalist painters George Clausen, Emile Friant and Jules Bastien Lepage. I had to finish the painting in 7 days, it normally would have taken me a month or longer to do something this size. I got artist model Toni Czechorosky help me out with the period costume.
The story is about museum security guard Roger (Christopher Walken) who's favorite painting The Lonely Maiden is being sold to a European museum to make room for a modern installation of Dung art. Roger and two other guards come up with a plan to steal the original painting and replace it with a reproduction. Tony and I got to see a screening of the film and we thought it was hilarious. Make sure to go out and see it when its released and tell your friends too because it probably wont have a huge advertising budget. Here's an article about the film in Artnews.
Thanks to Jennifer Long at Film Art LA for getting me the Maiden Heist project.

Christopher Walken with the painting.

March California Workshops

2009-03-11T16:35:00.000-07:00

I'm doing two 3-day figure painting workshops at my studio in California later this month, March 20th - 22nd and 27th - 29th. We will be painting in the studio and outdoors.
You can register online on my website.

Worlds on Fire Opening Night Pics

2009-02-04T10:10:00.000-08:00

L to R: Jeremy Lipking, Kris Lewis, Lori Early, Helen Garber, Matthew Bone, Justin Giarla, Paul Chatem, Henry Lewis, Chris Pugliese, Will.i.am, Trae King, Thierry Guetta aka Mr. Brainwash, Shawn barber

Me with Will.i.am and my dad Ronald Lipking

Joseph Todorovitch

The Wonder Girls

Worlds on Fire: Grammy Week Art Exhibition

2009-01-29T13:53:00.000-08:00

I have a piece in the upcoming exhibition of portraits of Grammy nominated artists called Worlds on Fire. It was put together by Will.i.am who is nominated for producer of the year. The show opens Monday Feb 2nd. and runs the whole week. The opening night is for invited guests and Gen Art members only (you can join on their site), as soon as I know the days and times that the show is open to the public I'll post them here.

Will.i.am presents Worlds on Fire, a pop music and art collaboration. Worlds on Fire will be the first art exhibition of its kind featuring portraits of 2009 Grammy nominees as drawn by pop surrealism and representational artists. The exhibition’s opening night celebration will take place on Monday, February 2 from 7:00 PM - 1:00 AM at the Pacific Electric Lofts in downtown Los Angeles. Entertainment to be provided by live D.J. sets from Will.i.am and special guests. Worlds on Fire: Grammy-Nominated Artist Exhibition will be the premier event to kick off Grammy week.

Worlds on Fire was conceived by will.i.am, one of pop music’s most creative, socially conscious and influential artists today, in conjunction with his popular social and political networking site, Dipdive.com. Focused on innovation and creativity, Worlds on Fire will be the only event during Grammy Week bridging the gap between the once separate mediums of performing/recording arts and modern art.

List of artists (and musicians they are doing portraits of):
SAS CHRISTIAN – Riverview, FL (Rihanna)
LORI EARLEY – Red Bank, NJ (Madonna)
COLIN CHRISTIAN – Riverview, FL (M.I.A)
JEREMY LIPKING – Los Angeles, CA (Snoop Dogg)
SHEPARD FAIREY – Los Angeles, CA (Paul McCartney)
IAN JOHNSON – San Francisco, CA (Al Green)
DAVID STOUPAKIS – New York, NY (Will.i.am)
PAUL CHATEM – Los Angeles, CA (Rick Rubin)
RON ENGLISH – Jersey City, NJ (Metallica)
GREG GOSSEL – Minneapolis, MN (Jay-Z)
HENRY LEWIS – San Francisco, CA (Nas)
SHAWN BARBER – San Francisco, CA (Shawn Barber)
TRAVIS LOUIE – Red Hook, NY (Nine Inch Nails)
MATT BONE – Los Angeles, CA (Beyonce)
JOSHUA PETKER – Los Angeles, CA (Radiohead)
VAN ARNO – Los Angeles, CA (BB King)
HEIDI TAILLEFER – Montreal, CAN (Coldplay)
KRIS LEWIS - Los Angeles, CA (Beck)
MIKE MAXWELL – San Deigo, CA (Bruce Springsteen)
GARY BASEMAN & NABIL ELDERKIN - Los Angeles, CA (Kanye West)
CHRIS PUGLIESE – Hoboken, NJ (The Eagles)
HELEN GARBER – Los Angeles, CA (Will.i.am)
SAUL ARMAS – Los Angeles, CA (Lil’ Wayne)
TRAE KING – Los Angeles, CA (Duffy)
NATALIA FABIA–Los Angeles, CA (Pink)
R.C. LIPKING –Los Angeles, CA (Alison Krauss & Robert Plant)
JOSEPH TODOROVITCH – Los Angeles, CA (Alicia Keyes)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Zorn painting restored

2008-12-17T14:40:00.000-08:00

I found this interesting blog post by an art conservation student about the restoration of an Anders Zorn painting of a nude woman and child at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. I've seen this painting pre-restoration and it looked kind of dull and hazy. Apparently the painting was censored a while ago when someone painted over the woman's pubic hair. The varnish was also in bad shape and needed to be removed, it looks much better now with the more brilliant color. There are more pics on the original blog post.

This is the UV light photo showing the Zorn painting as he intended it to look, the over painting on the pubes shows up because it is non-florescent and is on top of the varnish.

This is a detail of the censored version.

Figure Studies

2008-12-05T11:33:00.000-08:00

I just realized I haven't posted any paintings in a while. Both of these pieces are 16" x 6" oil on linen.

Colorado Academy of Art Update

2008-12-03T11:16:00.000-08:00

An update from this post.
A former workshop attendee just emailed me this info about the Colorado Academy of art and Peter Kennedy.
The school is filing Chap. 7 Bankruptcy, if you dont want him absolved of his dept you need to file a complaint with the court by 2/23/09. There is a "meeting of creditors" on 12/23/08 but it is not necessary to attend.

Address:
US Bankruptcy Court
US Custom House
721 19th Street
Denver, CO 80202-2508
# 720 904-7300
Case# 08-28803-SBB

Pirates

2008-11-19T10:48:00.000-08:00

Recently there has been lot of bootleg art instruction DVD's sold on ebay. This seller or sellers are making money off of the hard work of many artists including me, Richard Schmid, Greg Kreutz, Burton Silverman and Scott Christensen. Surprisingly some of these DVDs listed as "Like New" are selling for close to retail price. If you purchased one of these you probably wouldn't even know it was a bootleg copy because it looks pretty close to the real thing. The easiest way to know it is an illegal copy is to look at the back . The legal DVD's are silver like a regular movie dvd and the bootlegs are purple on a DVDR.
Here is a list of the known ebay sellers of bootleg DVDs, it is most likely they are different accounts set up by one person. If anyone knows who this douche-bag is and kicks his ass, I'll give you a Free drawing.... and an "official" DVD too.

Thanks,

Jeremy

sotakashimamanko

esterhan2010

continuallearning888

Return Address:
Continual Learning
PO Box 344
Burley WA 98322-0344

For more about this same subject, check out the article on Clint Watsons Fine Art Views blog.

Classical Underground

2008-11-18T13:11:00.000-08:00

I have to mention this, one of the coolest underground art/music events happening in Los Angeles right now are the monthly concerts at my good friend Alexey Steele's studio. Every month some of the top classical musicians in LA get together in Alexey's 7500 sq ft Grand Atelier to perform chamber music, sometimes until early morning. Last night David Chernyavsky and Serge Oskotsky played Martinu, and the very sexy Yana Reznik played alone on piano a very sexy Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue.

Thomas Kinkade's 16 Guidelines for Making Things Suck

2008-11-18T12:34:00.000-08:00

An interesting Vanity Fair article about Kinkade's movie, and his list of instructions for the production crew on how to make the movie look like his paintings. The article is amusing but still not as amusing as this LA Times article.

The Unfinished Painting

2008-11-11T13:33:00.000-08:00

This is the 6x8 painting from the video.

Adventures in Plein Air Painting

2008-11-08T13:14:00.000-08:00

This is a video from a painting trip in the Sierra's last July. Tony Pro and I paint outdoors, lighting, hail and mosquitoes get in the way and hilarity ensues.

Painting in Maine

2008-10-06T13:14:00.000-07:00

This is a little bit of video I shot of some of the guys painting Marshall Point at sunset.

I just returned from a really fun painting trip to Maine. I rented a house with twelve other painters on Marshall Point in Port Clyde Maine. Paul Schulenburg, Frank Gardner, Ernesto Nemesio, Casey Baugh, Logan Hagege, Glenn Dean, Eric Merrell, Colin Page, Lance Walker, Jeff Bonasia, Jerome Greene and Peter Kalill. But before going to Maine, Ernesto and I stayed in NH and VT for a couple days and had an opportunity to visit paint with living master Richard Schmid, Richards daughter Gretchen Schmid was our model.

Ernesto and me with Richard and our paintings of Gretchen. Ernesto painted her too but his painting didn't make it in this shot.

Marshall Point Nocturne 6"x8" oil

I did a small night painting with some of the other guys. Painting at night is always challenging but it's especially difficult when there is no moon out to give you a little extra light and color. You need to use a headlamp to see your palette and your painting, but the light of the lamp is so bright relative to the landscape that when you look up from your painting you cant see a thing until your eyes re-adjust. Eric Merrell and Frank Gardner posted some of their nocturnes on their blogs, and by the way please visit Franks blog and post a comment, I feel sorry for him that he doesnt get any traffic.

Some Recent Press

2008-10-06T12:12:00.000-07:00

My painting won first place in the American Artist Magazine Self Portrait competition, there is a short article with my painting in the October 2008 issue.

The American Artist Highlights Masters of Realism has an article on me in the current issue on newsstands now until April 2009.

Representaional Art in the Film: Local Color

2008-09-09T14:37:00.000-07:00

I just saw a screening of the movie Local Color, written and directed by fellow So-cal painter George Gallo. I've never seen the French Easel featured so much in a film or a lead actor dropping names like Nicolai Fechin or John F. Carlson, or even talk about local color. The story is based on the director's life, as an 18 year old in the 1970's wanting to learn to paint representational in a time when the art world considered realistic painting old fashioned and irrelevant. The main character finds a bitter old master Russian painter who he persuades to teach him to paint. In one funny scene Seroff (the Russian master) is asked to judge an exhibition of "progressive" art, and after getting an obfuscating explanation about a minimalist painting by the artist, he storms out and gives the award to the air conditioner because "it's the only F-ing thing that works". In another great scene, Seroff shows some modern art paintings to an art dealer who then goes nuts over them until he's told they were made by Down Syndrome kids. So, if you have an appreciation for representational painting you need to go see it when it comes out December 5th. According to George everything in the movie really happened to him.

Check out the trailer on the apple site. You can also see some clips on the movie's website.

Paintings That Inspire

2008-09-06T12:06:00.000-07:00

When I was done teaching the workshop at the Grand Central Academy in New York I went to the Met with a group of painters to see some of the newly displayed paintings in the 19th and 20th century galleries. A few paintings I'd never seen were a Sorolla landscape and portraits by Zorn and Repin.

A landscape by the master of color Joaquin Sorolla.

Master of edges, Anders Zorn (detail) Portrait of Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon

Ilya Repin (the master of pretty much everything) Portrait of the Russian writer Vsevolod Garshin

Artist David Kassan and friends outside of the Met.

Bull's Bridge CT

2008-09-04T21:50:00.000-07:00

Richard Schmid lived near South Kent CT a while back and painted a lot of landscapes of the area. One of these is the genius painting of Bull's Bridge. We found Bull's Bridge and I shot this photo down from where I think Richard painted.

Bull's Bridge by Richard Schmid

Katie photographing

I did a quick painting below the bridge with Ed Martinez.

Painting in Connecticut

2008-09-04T20:34:00.000-07:00

Katie 16" x 12"

I did this demo for a painting group recently at Robert Lenz'z garden in South Kent Connecticut. I had Katie Swatland model for me, and yes, that's how she dresses for a day of outdoor painting. It was a little challenging because half way through the painting she was in full sun, we had to move to a new location with some shade but I lost that warm yellow light hitting her back.

Jeremy painting outdoors

Katie Swatland and Jeremy Lipking

Colorado Academy of Art Closes and Owes People Money

2008-08-06T11:53:00.000-07:00

This is an update from last weeks entry October Workshop Canceled
Apparently Peter Kennedy has owed a lot of people a lot of money for a long time. I've been getting a lot of of email lately about Peter Kennedy and the CAA, Some are from former teachers and many from students who were signed up for my October workshop at the Academy. I haven't heard from anyone who has actually received a refund for the class or even gotten a reply from Peter Kennedy, if anyone did get refunded I'd like to know. It doesn't seem likely though, according to an article in the Daily Camera the teachers at the school haven't been paid for six months, he wasn't good in business and administration but he was sure good at convincing people to work for free.

Update: The school is filing Chap. 7 Bankruptcy, if you dont want him absolved of his dept you need to file a complaint with the court by 2/23/09. There is a "meeting of creditors" on 12/23/08 but it is not necessary to attend.

Address:
US Bankruptcy Court
US Custom House
721 19th Street
Denver, CO 80202-2508
# 720 904-7300
Case# 08-28803-SBB

Exhibition

2008-08-05T13:32:00.000-07:00

International Artist Magazine

2008-07-28T21:30:00.000-07:00

Force of Nature: Be it landscape or portrait Jeremy Lipking's paintings are always about the quality of the light. The new August/September issue of International Artist Magazine has an article about me with some photos of me painting the nude figure outdoors and in the studio. The photos are similar to the photos in American Art Collector and were taken by Jeff Newton.

Jeremy Lipking painting nude models outdoors.

October Colorado Workshop Canceled

2008-07-28T20:17:00.000-07:00

The Colorado Academy of Art in Boulder has closed, and my workshop has been canceled.
This is text from an email sent out today from Peter Kennedy of CAA, it gives an email address to contact someone about a refund. It doesn't sound very assuring, if you were signed up for the workshop you should probably contact them right away. The doors are closed, the website is down, the phone is disconnected and the email address below is the only way to get in contact with anyone from the school.

"There are some outstanding refunds that still need to be addressed for future classes or workshops that some have registered for. Please respond to caaclosed@gmail.com if a refund is owed to you so we can begin to formulate a plan to try to pay those back."

Update: Just found this article online on the Daily Camera about the CAA closing. Apparently the instructors stopped getting payed 6 months ago.

Opening Night

2008-07-01T13:22:00.000-07:00

Some of Mikes pics from Saturday night at the opening of my show.
The show will be up until July 12th at Track 16 Gallery at Bergamot Station, open Tuesday - Saturday.

For info about the paintings contact Arcadia Gallery 212 965-1387

Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave.
Santa Monica CA

The Best Fish Taco's Ever

2008-06-24T13:07:00.000-07:00

Every plein air painter has probably had some kind of issue with food while your painting out in rural places. In the backcountry there is no food unless you bring it, in France nothing is open after 3Pm except bars (Guinness will hold you over till dinner). Some artist I know say they don't get hungry while painting. Not me, if I dont eat lunch I'll paint a "frisbee"
If you happen to be a fish taco connoisseur like me and, I think Utah artist Ryan Brown, (if you read this Ryan correct me if I'm wrong) you need to know about this hidden gem.
The best fish taco's you'll ever eat can be found at Whoa Nellie Deli in a Mobile gas station in Lee Vining CA. Lee Vining is a small town at the foot of the Eastern Sierra just outside of Yosemite. Don't let the gas station part turn you off, "this is some serious gourmet shit" and it's anything but gas station food. I stop here almost every time I paint in that area.
You get two taco's, one has a mango plum pineapple salsa and the second has a gingery sauce with lettuce. I think the ginger one used to have a wasabi sauce instead of ginger but they are still the best fish taco's I've ever had. My cellphone pic doesn't do it justice, Here are some pics of the other dish's they serve.

Video clip from The Portrait Sketch with Jeremy Lipking DVD

2008-06-04T17:39:00.000-07:00

Here's a short video clip from my dvd. It's about four minutes of me painting the earring. I included the commentary track with Tony and me.

California Art Club 97th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition

2008-05-29T10:07:00.000-07:00

Here's a little video from the California Art Club's 97th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition at the Museum of California Art Pasadena CA.
April 25th 2008.
Some of the exhibiting artists:
John Asaro, Clyde Aspevig, Bela Bacsi, Drew Struzan, Ignat Ignatov, Tony Pro, Aaron Westerberg, Jeremy Lipking, Alex Schaefer, Warren Chang, Adrian Gottlieb, Ryan Wurmser, Amery Bohling, Peter Adams, Ariana Richards, Lindsay Goodwin, Howard Sabin, Steve Huston, Mian Situ, Sergio Sanchez, Alexey Steele, Tony Peters, Dan Thompson, Calvin Liang, David Gallup, Toni Czechorosky.

American Art Collector Magazine article and cover

2008-05-15T15:15:00.000-07:00

I have an article in the June issue of American Art Collector Magazine Jeremy Lipking Force of Nature. Photographer Jeff Newton came out and took some cool photos of me working. There are some paintings from my upcoming show in Santa Monica including the cover image, a detail of a painting of my daughter Skylar.
My buddy Joseph Todorovitch also has an article in the same issue.

My One-Man show is coming up

2008-05-15T15:01:00.000-07:00

My Exhibition of 25 new paintings opens June 28th at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica CA. For more ifo you can contact Arcadia Gallery 212 965-1387.
Go here for more info.

Does anyone know who painted this?

2008-05-06T12:16:00.000-07:00

I cant remember where this picture came from but I'd love to know who the artist is. Any artist who can paint eggs and a huge slab of butter that good, I should know about.

Who painted this?

2008-04-30T13:57:00.000-07:00

Does anyone know who the artist is? It's a pretty cool painting, it's in Rome at the Museum of Modern Art.

Sierra Landscape Painting

2008-04-07T12:49:00.001-07:00

The Eastern Sierra's are really nice for painting right now, this is a painting I did Friday looking up at Koip Peak.

A recent painting

2008-03-21T14:05:00.000-07:00

A small portrait of the artist David Tanner
10" x 8"
oil on C#13 linen

Portrait Society of America 2008

2008-03-11T10:39:00.000-07:00

I just found out that my painting La Meneuse de Revue got in as a finalist in this years PSOA competition. The painting is a portrait of Raquel Munoz. It will be on display at the conference in the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel in Philadelphia April 10th - 13th.

La Meneuse de Revue
60" x 40"
2008

Long Beach Museum Painitng Demonstration

2008-03-11T10:26:00.000-07:00

I did a 3 hour demo on Saturday at the Long Beach Museum of Art as part of the current exhibition "About Face". Sean Cheetham and F. Scott Hess also painted.
Here's a montage of the demo.

Recent Figure Painting

2008-02-20T16:08:00.001-08:00

A recent painting I did of model Britni.
oil on #13 linen
size: 12 x 16

The Portrait Sketch DVD is finally here.

2008-02-17T22:40:00.000-08:00

My art instructional DVD "The Portrait Sketch with Jeremy Lipking" is available through my online store. The DVD is $75. + shipping. You can also buy the DVD with the book "Jeremy Lipking: Figures" for $149. + Free Shipping in the United States.

DVD Description:

In his demonstration video Jeremy shows us his process. In under three hours, he paints a portrait from life in a single sitting. The model is none other than Danielle Lipking, the artist’s wife. The video begins with Lipking talking about his materials, and continues through the entire painting, capturing nearly every stroke from start to finish. Also included on the DVD is a feature-length artist’s commentary by Jeremy Lipking along with friend and director Tony Pro.

Running time: 2 hours, 40 minutes
Region: 0, Color/NTSC

Here's the trailer