Recent News: Richard Schmid Art Auction
We are so excited to have Richard Schmid choose this painting for his Art Auction.
’10 after 10′
Oil on Canvas
The auction is for a Colorado volunteer fire department.
Here is the auction website:
Richard Schmid is one of the most important artists of our time, as far as creating and teaching representational art. I believe this is because of his unwaivering drive to help out other artists with art technique education. He eagerly teaches seminars, as well as creates art videos, that allow us as arists to see how this master artist creates.
Richard Schmid will be teaching a seminar at the American Artist Masters Weekend:
The above painting was done one evening when I attempted at painting a still-life by candlelight. I had a difficult time seeing the palette, due to the dim lightsource I had over the painting and palette, and actually had to memorize where some of the darker colors were. I first tried my hand at painting in the dark while on a Steelhead Fly Fishing trip to Idaho. It was a full moon and while at camp, that night, thought that I could make a night painting with my watercolor and white guache painting set. It worked. I captured the warm ring around the cool full moon, and the warm light reflecting off the cool waters of the Salmon River. I ended up painting a handful of night paintings on that trip. This trip gave me the itch to attemp the candle-light painting above.