This Thursday! Come and help us celebrate God’s gift of Life! Find our booth at the Denver Liver Life Walk event!
Painting for Life was partially named as a dedication to Benjamin’s renewed life due to his liver transplant, twenty years ago this year. In order to celebrate this event, we will be participating in the Liver Life Walk event, in City Park, Denver, Colorado.
For those who wish to do either 2 or 3, they can find more information about it by going online to: http://go.liverfoundation.org/goto/paintingforlife. But hurry! The event is this Thursday!
To learn more about my transplant story, watch this quick video!
And as a part of our special celebration, on June 12, 2012, every item in our store will be 20% off.
Discount code: transplant.
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As part of a larger, multi-media presentation, I created this painting to represent the God’s love to the world.
If you wish to order this as a card for somebody, click here.
If you wish to order the entire box set, click here.
Email me if you wish to purchase the painting.
Palm Sunday, This Sunday!Come and join us this Sunday at Faith Bible Chapel Carr Street. Benjamin and Cherish will visually participate in a live painting demonstration as part of the worship and sermon.
When: Sunday, April 1, 9am and 10:45am.
Where: Faith Bible Chapel, Carr Street, 4890 Carr Street, Arvada, Colorado 80002
As a St. Patrick’s day gift to you, we have created a free fun, step-by-step tutorial on how to draw a Leprechaun. Great for school aged children. The instructions start with “Draw two fish bowl shapes.”
That’s all I’m going to say for now. To find out more and to get started with your St. Patty’s Leprechaun drawing, download the the 3 page PDF worksheet.
Happy drawing!
I just finished teaching my “Painting with a Broad Brush” class. Always a lot of fun. My landscape painting class begins in five weeks and anybody can sign up for it by going to the Glendale YMCA for more details.
These are two of the more successful exercises that came from that class. The first is of the little girl. In this exercise, I limited both their brush size and their color pallette. I asked them to bring back photos of portraits from which to paint, and we had to create our paintings using only five colors: Cadmium Red Medium, Ultramarine Blue, Yellow Ocher, Burnt Umber, and White. No detail brushes were allowed. I wanted them to break free from focusing on the detail that is inherent with portraits, and to instead look for the larger shape areas, scumbling them in with a wide, flat brush.
The second painting, of the peppers, was a still life project–real peppers were used for this painting. All colors and brushes were allowed in this particular project.
The challenge with this and all paintings worked on in this class is the time frame. It’s only an hour and a half class. For the girl painting, I did take it home to work on it a little bit, but I still limited my total time painting to 3 hours. The peppers, being a still life, had to be finished in the hour and a half.
Utilizing some of our more popular images, we created several way cool new mug designs available now through zazzle and can be previewed from our store by clicking here!
If you have not received the above art as a personalized calendar card from Benjamin and Cherish
and would like one, please make sure you provide us with a mailing address address.
As 2011 comes to a close, I had the opportunity to work on an oil portrait for a family whose mother had just passed. As a moving tribute, I was able to combine the father and the mother into a beautiful composition. Since the family did not have any good pictures of them together, I was able to utilize my illustrations skills to combine a bunch of different photos into one final painting.
While portraits are generally thought of as great and unique gifts for weddings, this last example demonstrates that they can be given for just about any occasion. Pricing ranges, depending on medium, size and complexity. Our basic pricing structure can be found here, but feel free to contact us with your proposed budget and we can craft a unique portrait just for you.
What makes Painting for Life unique is our ability to work directly with you in creating images that you want for your card, journal, print or any other custom art gift. This year, as many years previous, we were privileged to work with a number of corporations and small businesses in helping them craft very unique and special holiday designs. This year, I want to call out in particular the work we did for Brenda Speer, a trademark and copyrights lawyer, whose works specifically with artists, writers and musicians in helping them protect their works and protect their branding.
The illustrations in this post are the results of the work we did for her in trying to recreate a vintage Christmas. This illustrations were a blast to work on. Thank you, Brenda, for letting us be a part of your holiday celebration.
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Painting for Life is dedicated to illuminating the richest joys and truths about living.
We value life and strive to showcase this through our art.
Painting for Life was founded by Benjamin Hummel and Cherish Flieder, both artists who have struggled to overcome great difficulties in life. We are about spreading the joy of life through art above all else want to use it to enrich the lives around us. We hope you enjoy the work. To read more about who we are and why we do what we do, click here or watch this short introductory video.
All artwork on this site is Copyrighted 2012 by artists Benjamin Hummel and Cherish Flieder and may not be used without the Painting for Life's permission.
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