Art in Hand has released the new USA Project Deck, a truly unique deck of playing cards showcasing the wide range of extraordinary artistic talent found throughout the USA and Nina Weiss has produced the 5 of Hearts to celebrate Illinois.
Get your deck here!
Another happy student.
"It's been several weeks since I have returned from Nina's workshop in Italy and I must say that the experience has had a real, long lasting impact on my work. The tools that Nina gives you are solid art techniques/theories that can be applied to any style and medium. Her generous allowances for different student talents and interests makes the workshop valuable for students at any level. All of the above, balanced with unique "off the beaten path" locations make this workshop a gem that has benefits long after the flight home." - Jenny
Painter Deb Anderson describes how a landscape painting workshop sent her in a new and challenging direction.
The landscape painting workshop with Nina Weiss was so good. It was a change of direction for me, a challenge – very informative. After Nina explained her approach to composition and color we headed right out to sketch on the grounds of the Evanston Art Center. The Lake Michigan beach was just steps away... but the trees offered more interesting shapes. After I wiped my first start, Nina suggested using a red ground, to give later color layers something to react to. I drew out basic shapes with ultramarine blue. Then I started an underpainting focused on color temperature and atmospheric perspective – thin washes of warm, pure color in the foreground, with cooler colors receding into the distance. Once this underpainting was complete, we started pushing shadows and lights, and finding edges. And then my time was up. See more of Nina’s beautiful work here and here.
Nina Weiss is the current featured artist on www.scatnstyle.com.
Ms. Weiss is quite the artist and teacher and all around art entrepreneur and motivational, inspiring woman. What I realized, in this interview, is how diligent and disciplined she is. That does not detract from the beauty of her art, but rather enhances it, as she exercises, in the same way that an athlete would, for a big game. She does not site back and wait for it to happen...... Continued