Philip Koch Paintings

Here's a watercolor by Winslow Homer ( Homosassa River, 1904 from the Brooklyn Museum) that caught my eye the other day. Realize it's done with an extremely restricted palette (except for a tiny red jacket on one of the fishermen, it's got hardly any intense color in it). Homer's bringing this one home with his remarkable ability to improvise and to "lie" about what he was looking at. How did he learn how to do this so well? It got me to wondering what sort of painting class Winslow Homer would run if he were to come back to life and hire a model.  Here is part of my figure painting workshop Dec. 10 at the Saginaw Art Museum . Kara Harris Brown, the Museum's Curator of Education did a great job of organizing the event (including bringing lots of donuts). I think everyone enjoyed themselves. I know I did. Watching my students work, it struck me the more accomplished painters had learned not just about color and composition. but also ho...

   The Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport News, Virginia is showing my eight museum traveling exhibition Unbroken Thread: The Art of Philip Koch July 23 - August 2. There will be an opening reception and a brief artists talk Friday evening, July 22. Coupled with the big show of my landscape drawings and paintings, the museum will have me teach a one day landscape painting workshop. Regular readers of this blog are familiar with many of my ideas about the landscape from its philosophical significance to more practical concerns like how to connect one's drawing skill to oil painting. I hope some of you can join us for this workshop- these are always a lot of fun to teach and I know my students alwasy come away stronger painters. Here the information from the Peninsula Fine Arts Center's website. Here's the link  to their site. PAINTING WORKSHOP WITH PHILIP KOCH Saturday, July 23, 9am-4pm $100 Pfac member / $125 non-member Instructor: Philip Koch Stude...