THE EXTRA MILE
By Virginia Campbell

Reprinted with permission.  Southwest Art Magazine,
July 2004 issue

Arizona painter KENN BACKHAUS strives to move beyond conventional visual meaning in his landscapes and other scenes

LATE LAST AUTUMN, when catastrophic fires were tearing through canyons and throwing a pall of ash and smoke into the atmosphere over Southern California, Kenn Backhaus was working out on Catalina Island, a small gem of natural harbors off the California coast beloved by sailors and plein-air painters for over a century. The frequent changes in wind, temperature, and humidity on Catalina make for such an inspiring variety of special effects that it’s as if you were looking through an ever-turning prism held up to the sunlight over grassy hills and cold sea. On this particular morning, though, Catalina was lit with an eerie luminosity that was outside the island’s usual repertoire of beauty.
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Armand Cabrera Garden Palm- 9 x 12 Oil

"Paint Out and Wet Paint Show"
Anderson Fine Art Gallery
St. Simons Island, Georgia
April 18 - 24, 2008
Artist Reception, April 25
www.andersonfineartgallery.com
 Join Armand Cabrera and other notable PAP-SE artists at this exciting event on beautiful St. Simons Island in Georgia.

St. Simons Island is located in the Golden Isles and is adjacent to Sea Island and Jekyll Island ---just a one-hour drive from Savannah, Georgia and Jacksonville, Florida

Announcing  Fall 2008
A Three-Day Painting Workshop that
will inspire the way you paint forever!

Painting classes on location with PBS artist
Stefan Baumann
The Grand View Ranch
Mount Shasta California

This exceptional opportunity is open to
all medias and levels

Master Outdoor Painters

Joseph Henry Sharp
By Armand Cabrera

Joseph Henry Sharp was born in Bridgeport, Ohio in 1859.  His father was a merchant. His mother encouraged young Sharp’s study of art, music and literature. Sharp lost his hearing due to a swimming accident at the age of 12---the same year his family had fallen on hard times.  Henry dropped out of school and went to work in a nail factory to help his family financially. At the age of 14, he was accepted in the McKicken School of Design at the University of Cincinnati. Sharp lived with relatives in order to attend the University. Beginning in 1881, Sharp continued his studies in Europe at the Antwerp Academy where he stayed for two years.  When he returned from Europe, Sharp opened a studio in Cincinnati in the same building as the artist, Henry Farny. Sharps portrait commissions gave him enough money to travel west to follow his lifelong ambition to study and paint Native Americans.
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Quote of the Month

I guess it was Fenimore Cooper who first attracted me to the Indian. It was the romance of youth, of boyhood, I suppose. Then when I came to know them I liked them for themselves.  Perhaps they attracted me as subjects to paint because of their important historical value as the first Americans.
~Joseph Henry Sharp

WORKSHOPS

Stefan Baumann
Armand Cabrera
Brian Blood
Ned Mueller
Laurie Kersey
Charles Muench
Joseph Paquet
Kenn Backhaus

ARMAND CABRERA OUTDOOR PAINTING WORKSHOP

Paint the Beauty of the Southwestern Desert
Tucson, Arizona

Sponsored by the
Tucson Plein Air
Painters Society

October 23 – 26
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A WEEK OF PAINTING
IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY!
Sept 28 – Oct 3

Join us near Luray, Virginia to paint the spectacular Fall Colors.

Stay at the River’s Bend Guest Ranch and paint rolling hills, horses, barns, cows…and the beautiful Shenandoah River.
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