I'm thrilled to paint another figure demo at David's Terra Nova Gallery in Provo on Friday, November 5th at the opening of the annual Great Things, Small Packages Show during the gallery stroll.  More info to come.

I've been wrapping up illustration work so now I'm finally getting the "secret" work posted my wife and I painted for Ogden Union Station's Secret Show.  They didn't ask or show titles, so I left mine untitled.  Cynthia titled hers.  We also got a chance to see Tom Howard and his beautiful landscape show at the Station.  He also had a piece in the Secret Show.   I felt bad that we'd missed his opening.  It was the same night as the Provo Plein Air opening.


Celebration 7x5 acrylic on canvas Cynthia McKay Secret 2010


Untitled 7x5 oil on canvas Robert McKay Secret 2010

I'm now working on another secret painting.  It is for Bountiful/Davis Art Center's 2nd Annual Evening in the Art fundraiser October 29, 2010.  Tickets are $30.00 per person.  They are doing the "secret" auction thing this year.  I demonstrated a donation portrait for them last year. 
(I don't know what happened but those demo photos disappeared along with that military donation landscape and some personal photos of my dad.  Maybe I thought I had them burned or filed and accidentally trashed them???...breathing too much retouch varnish :)   I'll be able to get the military one from a friend, but the others are gone unless they somehow... re-appear). 

Come paint Provo's beautiful scenery with us on September 25th and 26th!  We'll meet at Terra Nova Gallery, discuss Color Infusion, among other juicy painting tidbits and then go out and paint.  Friday we'll go to dinner with gallery owner/photographer David Hawkinson.

We have had so much fun at these workshops.  I was honored to get David's invitation to host one for me.  What a blast!

Let me know if you have any questions.  robert@robertmckayart.com

Please download the information by clicking on the links below.  You can also get the info from the Infusion Workshops page and at terranovagallery.com.


Terra Nova Wkshp Flier (.pdf)
McKay_TNG_Wkshp_Supplies (.pdf)
McKay_Plein_Air_Workshop_Registration_2009 (.pdf)

We had a great time at the Wheeler Workshop.  Crazy weather Saturday, but great skies. 

This coming Friday, July 17th from 5:30-8:30pm I'll be demonstrating from a pioneer dressed model for
Apple Frame's Pioneer Show in Bountiful.     Come on out! 

Here's the contact info: 

Apple Frame Gallery
70 N Main St # 104
Bountiful, UT 84010
(801) 298-1227
www.appleframegallery.com

Thanks to everyone who came out to the demo Friday!  Great turnout.  Thank you for the interested and inquisitive participation!

Wonderful to see old friends and meet new ones.  We had professional artists, students, art appreciators, and collectors attend. 

David did a fantastic job with the lighting, set up and tunes!  Thanks to our model - he endured to the end.

The demo piece was completed in three hours.  Collection David Hawkinson. 

Photos posted soon.

Come on out to Terra Nova Gallery tonight, Fri., Feb. 6th from 6-9pm, and visit with me as I demonstrate from life.  I love these demos.  It's an exciting combination of model, artist and onlooker participation. It's a challenge switching on both sides of my brain simultaneously so I can talk and paint at the same time.  Forgive me if I end up painting a conversation and talking a brushstroke!

See you there!

A special thanks to David Hawkinson photographer and owner of Terra Nova Gallery for inviting me to show two months consecutively.  Start out your new year with us at Terra Nova!  We'll be continuing the celebration at the February reception, with my live painting demonstration.