On Sunday May 3rd from 2:30 – 4:30 pm, the Warwick Art League will host a portrait demonstration by the award winning artist Timothy John-Luke Smith, PSA at the Seligmann Homestead, 23 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf, NY . (directions here)
Timothy studied at the Art Students League under George Passantino and at the National Academy School of Fine Arts under Harvey Dinnerstein. Soon after, he received a full-tuition scholarship at the Academy. Harvey taught him pastels as a painting medium and they were immediately embraced by the Timothy. Having been in Harvey’s classes for over three years, gave him the tools to be an artist and to work on his own. His favorite artists are still the oil painters of the Neo-Classical and French Academic schools and his pastel paintings have the look and feel of an oil painting. Timothy is the founder of his own movement he calls, “Neo-Meso Americanism. This movement is affected by the recent discoveries of whole Mayan cities from the Late Classic Period, as well as , the deciphered glyphs from those same cities. These discoveries are all within the last 15 years! Just as the 18th century archaeologists discovered the ancient Roman Cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum from the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius at 79 AD, the jungles of Central America had lifted their vail from the ancient Mayan cities of Palenque, Calakmul and Copan. The 19th century artists painted the ancient Roman world as Timothy, today paints the ancient Mayan world. He is able to read and write ancient Mayan glyphs and they are in his paintings. “This gives the work some of the mystery that is The Maya.” Timothy says.
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information about Timothy’s work visit his web site, or view a video of one of his demos.
Click here for directions to the Seligmann Homestead from Warwick, NY
