by admin | Jun 20, 2019 | Bob Bahr
by Bob Bahr Although some wildlife artists depict animals in a loose fashion, the tradition calls for extreme attention to texture, use of fine detail, and a general concern for precision and accuracy. Watercolor may not seem like the obvious medium for such an...
by admin | Jun 13, 2019 | Bob Bahr, Uncategorized
by Bob Bahr Everett Raymond Kinstler painted astronauts and presidents, Cagney and Hepburn, Clinton and Nixon, Tom Wolfe and Tony Bennett. He’s been the inspiration for thousands of artists across the country and beyond. And somehow, almost inconceivably,...
by admin | May 2, 2019 | Bob Bahr
By Bob Bahr In April 2004, Michael R. Strobl, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, escorted home the body of a fallen soldier named Chance Phelps. Chance was killed in action near Ar Ramadi, in Iraq. (Firsthand accounts say that Phelps volunteered for the...
by admin | Apr 26, 2019 | Bob Bahr
by Bob Bahr First-time visitors to the SKB workshop in Dubois, Wyoming may miss the fact that Dubois has enjoyed a strong artists group for decades—seven decades, to be precise. This year marks the 70th Annual Wind River Valley Artists’ Guild Annual National Art...
by admin | Mar 6, 2019 | Bob Bahr
by Bob Bahr Rod Lawrence is thorough when it comes to his own art, and accepting when it comes to other people’s process. In other words, he can and will show you exactly how he makes an image, but he does not expect or even encourage workshop participants to...
by admin | Dec 21, 2018 | Bob Bahr
By Bob Bahr How do you get to an SKB Artists Rendezvous? The same way you get to Carnegie Hall—practice. Age matters. It’s a bit harder for a teen to get to the annual Dubois workshop put on by the Susan Kathleen Black Foundation. Fifteen-year-olds, for example,...
