In the studio with artist, photographer and instructor Robert Louis Caldwell

Robert's Holiday drawing workshop! Saturday 12/3/2011, 9:00am-4:00pm, 1 hour lunch, bring your own. Sunday 12/4/2011, 10:00am – 2:00pm, 1 hour lunch, bring your own. Workshop location ArtHaus Visual Arts Studio 1811 Huguenot Road, #304 Midlothian, VA 23113 $225.00 this includes your drawing paper and the frame! Every year Robert draws a special drawing that encompasses the holiday season which he then uses for his holiday greetings card. Robert is giving you a special opportunity to join him on a two day workshop where you will draw along with him creating the same drawing that he is. The drawing is a surprise and you will not know what it is until the day of the workshop. It will of course have a bird in it, in past years he has used a snow man, snow woman and holiday lights. Wonder what it will be this year? All you need to bring to this class is your drawing pencils (see material list below), and your patience! Robert will be su...

Upcoming Art classes & workshops... Individual attention. Creative exploration. In each class, Robert lets students work at their own level, while encouraging them to expand their skills and problem-solve creatively, so every student comes away with a growing confidence in his or her artistic abilities . Robert’s classes are for adults and teens. To ensure a creative environment with individual instruction, each class is limited to 10 students. Have a group of artists interested in taking a class? Please contact Robert for information about forming your group class. Drawing classes… Designed to be taken successively, the drawing classes are formed around lessons that build on each other, allowing students to develop confidence along the way. Students start with a fundamental course where they learn to see shapes, understand value and create three-dimensional drawings on a two-dimensional surface. Subseque...

A work in progress...  “Three Gulls” – Under drawing stage. This Saturday I will be painting LIVE from ArtHaus Visual Arts Studio in Midlothian, Virginia during their open house event . Please join me at the studio from 3-6 pm to watch me start adding color to my current painting “Three Gulls.” As you can see above the painting is in it’s “Under drawing” stage of my process and I will be toning the canvas (board) later today making it ready for the first layer of color on Saturday. You can also see below that I have already mapped out my colors for my painting using the Munsell color notation system. If you are new to this blog and/or my work and the process I go through to create my finished pieces you might be asking yourself what is an “under drawing,” what is “mapping your colors” and who is Munsell? I will be more than happy to answer all of those questions and any more that you might come up with at the LIVE paint demonstration at ArtHaus Visual Arts Studio on Saturday...

LIVE paint demonstration! Thursday 3/24 & Friday 3/25 10:00am – 1:00pm from ArtHaus Visual Arts Studio Midlothian, Virginia Painting is to be donated to Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s cheers to ART! Benefitting The Children’s Garden For the lack of a title..... "Junco" In the under drawing stage of the painting Oil, 4 x 6  The kind people at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden have asked me to donate a piece of art to their 2 nd annual Cheers to Art event that benefits The Children’s Garden. I am honored to have been asked to be part of this and I luckily have a small bird painting already started that is ready for color that I can donate to them. Tomorrow and Friday I will be painting this small bird painting LIVE, on my Ustream channel , from ArtHaus Visual Arts Studio in Midlothian, Virginia streaming it over the internet. I invite you to either watch from your computer or to come by the Visual Arts Studio and see it in person. As always I would be mo...

   Last summer I accepted the role as a faculty member at ArtHaus Visual Arts Studio here in Midlothian, Virginia just outside of Richmond. I teach the drawing and painting classes at the school and found the experience of teaching extremely rewarding! I find myself working in my studio thinking of the current piece I am creating and how I can explain the process to my students. I guess the saying is right, "To teach, is to learn twice"! Below are the listings of my Winter 2011 classes that I will be teaching. Please visit my teaching webpage for more information about my classes.   Drawing Classes... Intermediate Drawing Tuesdays 6:30pm – 9:oopm Adult & Teen **Going on NOW!** Drawing Animals & Nature Thursdays 3:30pm – 6:00pm Teen **Going on NOW!** Perspective Drawing Tuesdays 6:30pm - 9:00pm Adult & Teen 01/25/2011 - 03/29/2011 (No class 3/1/ & 3/9/2011) Drawing Fundamentals Monda...