Cherry Sweig Fine Artist: 2010

Friday, December 3, 2010

#3 "Three Eggs, Over Easy, PLease" Matilija Poppies

Thursday, December 2, 2010

#2, Red Tailed Hawk, Dec 2,2010... 'Hawk Eye'

101 Reasons to Explore the Chula Vista Nature Center

Beginning December 1st, I will be painting 101 wildlife images from The Chula Vista Nature Center.

In 101 days.

That's one a day from December 1st through March 11, 2011.

Each original oil painting is 8 x 8” with a 1 ½” depth. It can stand on its own or is ready to hang.

An Artist’s Statement/ Certificate of Authenticity, Art Title

and name of wildlife subject are included in each painting.

Artworks will be displayed in the auditorium in groups of seven,

as they are created.

Artworks are for sale through the Nature Center's bookstore at $101 each.

25 % will be donated to the CVNC.

Here's the project notes....

v Cherry Sweig is a San Diego artist who paints both oils and watercolors featuring local nature-related themes, Greek Equine and Plein Air (painting outside on location) travels abroad. She has volunteered as an Art Curator at the center since 1995 with numerous art exhibitions, workshops and her Gyotaku, Japanese nature printing.

She explains: ‘This an ideal opportunity to celebrate 101 images of the Nature Center through my artworks. With this consecutive challenge, it’s an extraordinary chance for visitors to encounter the whole process from blank canvases to a finished wall of art. It will also illustrate how the artworks evolved, brushstroke by brushstroke. This Nature Center is abounding with imagery and inspiration everywhere I look. From the bald eagle to the two-spotted octopus, there are countless

reasons to explore this impressive living museum.”

Here we go!!!

Opening the box of 101 blank canvases....getting ready to paint

It's December 1st... day 1 of 101 days of painting 101 artworks about the Chula Vista Nature Center-

and reasons to see this wonderful living museum...

I hope my artworks will enlighten viewers to the

Here's my signature... always with a red dot....

side view... art is painted around all four edges.

.... #1 is done!!

'Orange Jewel'

Saturday, October 23, 2010

THE BOX is here...

THE BOX arrived last week...what's inside??? You'll have to guess... I'll open it next week-
Hint: You'll be watching it GROW from Dec 1- March 11....

MORE HINTS TO COME..... ;)

Friday, October 1, 2010

Weekend with the Masters

Seminar/Workshop by American Artist Magazine in Dana Point, California.

September 23- 26, 2010

As an artist, I am dedicated to always learning and being exposed to a variety of methods, viewpoints and styles. This event was an opportunity to either attend lectures or take full days workshops from some of the most inspiring and celebrated artists of our time. Most of them can trace their education through their teachers... a 'who's who' lineage all the way back to the Renaissance including Titian, Fechin, Sorolla, Sargent or training at the Art Students League in New York and Chicago Art Institute.

My class list included: CW. Mundy, Camille Przewodek, Albert Handell, Stephen Scott Young and

Sherrie McGraw. We attended lectures by Richard Schmid, Daniel Gerhardtz and Scott Burdick...

I returned home, ready to launch another new series of artworks...

from fruit bowls, to figures to waterfalls...

Demo with Richard Schmid: two screens, large room and hundreds of fascinated artists ready to watch the MAESTRO.

Richard discussing his theories of art.

His finished art, what a thrill it was to watch him work!

September 24: Albert Handell

Albert Handell, his demo for my first class on waterfalls and streams in oils
with transparent backgrounds and thick palette knife featured areas.

My final art as I worked along side Albert's vertical painting and his reference.

September 25: Stephen Scott Young

Scott demonstrated his watercolor dry-brush technique, painted with one small brush, very patiently and with extreme attention to the amount of water in each stroke of the brush.