Carol Marine
Bio
Carol Marine grew up in the small town of Harper, TX, in a dome house designed and built by her parents. Carol’s parents were very creative (mother a weaver and potter, father a boat-builder) and encouraged Carol to pursue her dreams in art.
After graduating from high school she attended the University of Texas at Austin. Carol was dissatisfied with her art classes at UT, as she felt the professors rarely taught the basics of design and technique. In spite of this, Carol graduated in 2000 with a degree in fine art.
Carol spent the next 3 years painting and studying other artists she liked. She then spent 2 years doing web design before returning to painting and in 2005 signed up with the Wally Workman Gallery in Austin, TX. Carol’s work has since been featured in local and national magazines, including Southwest Art. In 2006 she was invited to participate in the “Artist for the New Century” exhibition at the Bennington Center for the Arts in Vermont.
In October 2006, Carol began her painting a day project through her blog: www.carolmarine.blogspot.com and has since been featured several times in the “Lines and Colors” and “Empty Easel” online magazines. She is a member of the Daily Painters Guild, a group of 15 notable painters who paint every day and sell their work on ebay. Carol resides in Austin, TX with her husband and son.
Classes taught by Carol Marine
A Painting a Day
Whether you are painting for a living or hobby, painting small and often is a powerful way to rapidly improve your skills. There is a fast growing group of people, called daily painters, who do small paintings every day, post photographs of their paintings on a blog, and then sell them through eBay, with a usual starting price of $100. In this way, many artists are finding they can grow quickly in skill and finally make a living with their art, after struggling for years in galleries and at art fairs.
We will spend most of our time on the basic principles of design – the rules of composition, value, color, and shape – and how to apply them to small still lives. We will then experiment with color relationships using an alternative to the traditional color wheel, explore color mixing, and how each color “leans” towards others. We will push our compositions to avoid the “floating” objects and learn the one, simple rule to avoid a boring still life. Throughout, there will be demos with handouts and one-on-one critiques.
Finally, we will learn how to set up a daily painting blog, the in’s and out’s of ebay, marketing your work, etc. There will be reference material on this to take home.