Today was the first day of a 5-day Peggi Kroll-Roberts at l'Atelier aux Couleurs in Petaluma. Peggi has a wonderful unique style for painting the figure, so I've looked forward to studying with her for some time. She's also a lot of fun. Today, we started simple: gray scale paintings. These are done, much like
When I first saw Peggi Kroll-Roberts’ paintings, I was intrigued by the seeming simplicity of the work. Here was a great painter who had achieved what most of us want: […]
Award-winning artist Peggi Kroll-Roberts was trained at Arizona State University and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Peggi worked as a fashion and advertising illustrator before transitioning to fine art. Her artworks are featured in the Laguna Beach Art Museum and the Pasadena Historical Museum. Using intense color and value to accentuate her subject, she moved into fine art with a bold palette, a love for small paintings and a very loose style that achieves a lot with a few very energetic brush strokes. She prefers to suggest reality rather than render it. Peggi paints animated figures, and breaks away from conventional still life with playful paintings of everyday scenes: cosmetics, the occasional coffee cup or slab of butter. Peggi's work gives us a new appreciation of daily life. Peggi's realist impressionist and expressionist styles are striking, and she has won multiple fine art and plein air awards in addition to the Blackwell prize in painting.
Peggi taught us a couple more tools for painting. This was an interesting idea: paint a study with as few brushstrokes as possible. You design and then draw a composition that allows you to paint with as few big shapes as possible. This is a great exercise for a couple reasons: first, it's always a
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Peggi Kroll Roberts was trained at Arizona State University and the Art Center College of Design. Peggi worked as a fashion and advertising illustrator before making the transition into fine art. Using intense color and value to accentuate her subject, prefers to suggest reality than render it.
After viewing and savoring my Peggi Kroll-Roberts DVDs, I'm doing the exercises she teaches in them, starting with value studies. To keep it simple and focus on values I used colored blocks for my subject. Above is the last study of the day in which I tried to apply to color what I'd learned by doing the…
Bouquet by Peggi Kroll-Roberts
Garden Color by Peggi Kroll-Roberts
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Bouquet in Pink Vase by Peggi Kroll-Roberts
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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This is a topic that I have been obsessed with for a little more than a decade, which is approximately the length of time that I have been painting the landscape myself. Who are the great landscape painter
This is just a little sampling of what we have by this artist, please contact us for more work at (404) 257.0511. Price range: $425-3,000. Lesley paints in oils with a classical approach to composition and color, but she has a point of view that is fresh and contemporary. Whenever possible, she prefers to paint from life. She often paints on location, composes still lifes in her studio, or works with models. Lesley also enjoys painting interiors. She is inspired by rooms from her own home, as well as by historical homes and museums. Lesley says, “Working from life allows me to see forms without distortion. It also enables me to discern color more truly, and to capture the light and shadow that animate a subject.” Lesley loves to travel, and her paints and easel always accompany her. She likes to complete small plein air studies on location, which she brings home to her studio as the basis for larger works. The plein air studies, together with reference notes, sketches and photos taken on location, are tools that help her create successful larger works. She says that she challenges herself to preserve the freshness and liveliness of her field sketches when she translates them into larger works in the studio. This approach brings a sense of directness and immediacy to Lesley’s work. France and Italy are particular sources of inspiration for Lesley. She is drawn to their bucolic villages, as well as to their cosmopolitan cities such as Paris and Venice. European architecture, terrain, people and daily customs are expressed in many of Lesley’s paintings. Lesley has studied at workshops with plein air painting master Kevin Macpherson, as well as with California plein air artists Ken Auster and Peggi Kroll Roberts. She has also participated in workshops with noted artist Maggie Siner. Lesley lives in Charlotte, NC, where she has studied with local artist Connie Winters, and with Andy Braitman at the Braitman Studio in Charlotte.
Figures bring a human element to any landscape, especially beach scenes. But many artists are intimidated by the figure, and feel they need to make it look exactly like the person, or they wont even try.One of my favorite figurative artists is Peggy Kroll Roberts. Her figures are very stylized, just shapes of different values, but they look very detailed (from a distance). Notice in this painting you don't actually see fingers and facial features, but you do "read" the patterns of darks and ligh
