Come to New Zealand!

COME TO NEW ZEALAND AS AN ART STUDENT, 
PROFESSIONAL ARTIST 

OR ART INSTRUCTOR

WHAT BETTER WAY TO SEE NEW ZEALAND THAN WITH A NEW ZEALANDER!

I am a New Zealander and my country's best ambassador. Though I live in the U.S. and have family here, my house is on the market and once sold, I'll move back to New Zealand. But I'll have a foot in both countries as I'll spend four months of each year in the U.S. supplying galleries and doing a few shows.

I've taught art workshops in the U.S. and around the world with my artist buddy Joe Garcia and we've had many requests to teach in New Zealand.  So five of us (me, my sister Joanne and her husband Jim plus Joe & Anne Garcia) formed Southern Cross Artventures for the purpose of offering painting trips to New Zealand.  As my sister and I grew up about an hour north of Auckland on the beautiful Kowhai Coast, we know the area well - so this is where our Painting Holidays are based.

We offer three ways for you to see my New Zealand.

COME AS AN ART STUDENT:
The Southern Cross Artventures team will pick you up at the airport in Auckland, transport you to our resort, provide most of your meals and all daily excursions to the islands, bays and beaches of the Kowhai Coast.  Bring your travelling companion as there will be lots of things for non-painters to do, including hiking, swimming and snorkelling.  The upcoming February 2012 Earnshaw/Garcia Painting Holiday is full and at this time we don't have any scheduled but we are offering artist workshops by other instructors in 2013. Cost:  $2500

Though Joe and I won't be teaching the following workshops, we will be escorting you each day, providing everything you need for an enjoyable week including information on the landscape, plants and birds.

Barrett Edwards  New Zealand Painting Holiday, February 24 - March 2, 2013, Oil painting workshop on location. 

Michael Chesley Johnson  New Zealand Painting Holiday, March 5 - March 11, 2013,  Plein air painting workshop, any medium!   Michael has his own website on this workshop.

COME AS A PROFESSIONAL ARTIST - New Zealand Painting Holiday March 14 - 20, 2013
As with the art workshops, we will pick you up at the airport, transport you to our resort, provide most of your meals and all daily excursions to the islands, bays and beaches of the Kowhai Coast, but there will be no instruction provided.  This is for professional artists who would like the opportunity to paint some of the prettiest motifs in New Zealand without the hassles.  Cost: $2100

COME AS AN INSTRUCTOR:
If you would like to teach a painting workshop for us in New Zealand and think you have 16-20 students who would like to accompany you, please contact us! 

Whether you are taking a workshop as an art student or spending a week painting with us as a professional artist, the following is included in the cost of your Painting Holiday:

Transportation to and from Auckland Airport
Transportation to and from your daily painting locations
All breakfasts, all lunches and most of your dinners
Wine is provided with some of the meals
Kawau Island and other excursions
Accommodation.   Our resort accommodates four people per bach (bach=summer cabin).  Each bach has a kitchen, living room, internet, television and two bedrooms, each with their own bathroom.  One bedroom has a king bed, the other has a queen or twins.  There's an additional $300 fee if you would like single accommodation. 

Not included is your round trip airfare from the United States to New Zealand.  We can advise on airlines and where to visit in New Zealand after your Painting Holiday and can help with any other information you may need. 

For more information contact me or go to our website:  www.paintingnewzealand.com or our blog
www.PaintNewZealand.blogspot.com

Kia ora,
Adele

Light Through Trees

This is an 8" x 8" oil on panel, #6 in my Light Through Trees series.  Like my little bird studies, this painting is an exercise in loosening up.  This painting will be one of 30 that I'll be exhibiting at the Southeastern Wildlife Expo in Charleston, South Carolina,  February 17-19

Light Through Trees #6

Oil on panel,  8" x 8"

I added the little bits of red at the last minute but I'm not sure if I'll leave them in.  The painting had a subtlety that I liked before the red was added. 

Flying Canada Geese for Today's Oil Study

This little study looks more detailed than it is.  I painted it for the sky, which I intended to be stormy, but I guess my colors were too blue because the clouds look like nice-day kinda clouds.

I live in Northern Arizona.  I got a shock a few weeks ago when I heard the familiar honking that I hear when I'm in Maryland in November.  Suddenly a flock of about 60 Canadas came over the red rocks and up the canyon.  Quite a sight!

239 - Canada Geese in Flight

5" x 7" oil study on board, unframed

$75 plus $6 shipping within the U.S.

SOLD

Color and Light, 8 & 9

When I have a little extra time at the end of the day - and some colorful paint left on my palette, I work on my little landscape series called Color & Light.  These two are the 8th and 9th of the series.
I really like #8 as it is almost an abstract design.  #9 is a little more literal.  These little paintings are done on cradledboard - which is a gessoed panel on 3/4" deep birch ply sides.  The sides are painted a predominant color from the landscape.  They do not need to be framed - but can be if you prefer. 

Color & Light Series, #8

4" x 4" oil on board,  unframed

Color & Light Series, #9

4" x 4" oil on board,  unframed

A Canada Goose for Today's Study

It's a bright, sunny day outside so I felt like painting something colorful.  Today's oil study is a 5" x 7" oil study on gessoed board.  If you would like to see the rest of my studies in my 75 for $75 project, just click on this link.  There are some unsold pieces!

The silent auction on the little rabbit, The Ears Have It, ends today at 5:00 pm mountain standard time.  The current high bid is $150.  If you'd like to see it, or bid, just scroll down to last Monday's post.

238 - Canada Goose

5" x 7" oil study on board, unframed

$75 plus $6 shipping within the U.S.

SOLD

A Mourning Dove for Today's Oil Study

I spent the day working on commissions and had enough time left to do a little study.  I haven't done a dove in a long time - so today's study is a Mourning Dove.  Now I have the itch to paint an Inca Dove - maybe tomorrow, we'll see. 

237 - Mourning Dove

5" x 7" oil study on board, unframed

$75 plus $6 shipping within the U.S.

SOLD

Two Commissions

I've just finished this 10" x 8" oil of a finch for a client.  It's been sitting in the studio half-finished for a month or more while I decided what it needed.   My paintings always work out better if I don't rush them.  Once the piece is about 80% finished,  I lean it against the wall in the studio for a couple of days.  Sometimes I know within a day or two what needs to be done to finish it - other times it will take a month or more as with this piece.

This second commission is a 12" x 16" of black-billed magpies, and is at the lean-it-against-the-wall stage.  When a painting is at this stage, I also photograph so it can flip it horizontally in Photoshop...the equivalent of looking at it in the mirror.  If I like the flipped or mirror image - I know it is working.

This is my third attempt at this painting.  I've discovered that magpies aren't easy birds to work into a composition because of the long tail and the dramatic black and white markings but I'm happy with this composition.   Once the brush and birds are tweaked a little, it will be finished.

I'm hoping to do a little 75 for $75 study before the end of the day.  Stay tuned!