Artists need your help this Holiday Season!
Visual Artists have been very hard hit by the pandemic. Many avenues for selling art have been completely shut down in 2020. Please help them out by visiting their websites and purchasing original art for Christmas gifts. There is a lot of beautiful art o...
Alice has many beautiful works framed and ready to ship! Check out her website at: https://www.aliceleese.com/
Techniques from Alice:
"These paintings depict the Rio Grande under the John Dunn Bridge near Taos New Mexico. The painting was done in the middle afternoon in the shade of some trees. ...
Artists need your help this Holiday Season!
Visual Artists have been very hard hit by the pandemic. Many avenues for selling art have been completely shut down in 2020. Please help them out by visiting their websites and purchasing original art for Christmas gifts. There is a lot of beautiful art o...
Alice tells us about the ‘Quarentini Painters’ :
"The Quarentini Painters were formed in March 2020 to keep artists painting and engaged during the pandemic. A friend asked if I would like to paint a subject and share photos. He then talked to more people and from there a few simple ground ru...
More from our Art Cocoon Featured Artist, Alice Leese! Alice visits the places she wants to paint and creates plein air studies and graphite drawings of the area. Studies can either be simple lines of the natural movement she sees in landscape or a detailed illustration. Taking these studies back t...
Art Cocoon is happy to revisit with Gary Michael, a featured artist from 2018. Gary finds much of his inspiration from the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Colorado! Here is his summer story and images:
"Nymph Lake is half a mile up a moderate trail from the Bear Lake trailhead in the Rocky Mountain ...
Alice Leese grew up on the YT Ranch in Winkler County Texas, where she and her husband Rob still live and work. Alice is part of the fourth generation on the ranch and works alongside the fifth and sixth. The ranch was started in the late 1800’s by her great grandfather who came from Maine to the we...
by Art Cocoon Featured Artist Paul HarmanEveryone is confronted with challenges in their lifetime, whether it's moving to a new town or state, losing a loved one, losing a job, going through a divorce, getting over a serious illness or serving overseas in the military. Those are just a few of the ch...
By Art Cocoon Featured Artist Paul HarmanAs many artists are now turning to photos for inspiration, we asked our Art Cocoon Featured Artist, Paul Harman, to talk about how he approaches painting through photographs. Here's what he said:
Music is to many the elixir of the heart and so...
By Art Cocoon Featured Artist Paul Harman
Sheltering at home, the one place where we should all feel secure is a good and sensible thing to do at this time. What we do with that time is what will count and be remembered by our children, our friends and associates.
I know that I am fortunate to...
By Art Cocoon Featured Artist Paul HarmanI was visiting with my brother and his wife in Sanger, California and their home backs up to the Kings River. I had taken my portable pastel backpack with all my gear and decided to paint a scene looking upriver from their deck.As you can see, I used one of m...
Meet our new Art Cocoon Featured Artist Paul Harman!This beautiful painting of the Grand Canyon was judged Best Pastel in the April 2018 Plein Air Magazine Salon Competition. It was also featured in the book 'Strokes of Genius 10' published by North Light Books.Paul painted throughout his 25 years a...
