Wildlife Painting with Terry Isaac

Amazing results! Watch Terry Isaac teach hosts Doug Brown and Diana Stirling how to paint. 

Stationery feature on The Paper Chronicles

We are excited to see that Classy People has been featured on The Paper Chronicles!

Let's Collaborate!

Pine Ridge Art is always trying to find ways to explore new artists and illustrators. 

We thought a fun way of exposing ourselves to other artists would be to set up a new collaborative Pinterest board called “Art Around the Net”. The members within this group can pin favourite artists or illustrator's work. A few rules would be to please avoid pinning nudity or anything which may be offensive to other viewers. We also ask to please avoid flooding or spamming the page. 

Follow Pine Ridge Art's board Art Around the Net on Pinterest.

If this sounds like something you would like to participate in please send an invitation request and link to your Pinterest profile to info@pineridgeart.com.

Thank you and Happy Pinning! 

The Paper Chronicles

We've been featured by The Paper Chronicles! Check out the article here. Written by Sarah Schwartz, the founding editor of Stationery Trends, an award-winning trade quarterly magazine devoted to all things paper. The Paper Chronicles is Sarah's side project and is a way for her to share her insights into the industry. Not to be missed by any stationery enthusiast.

Back by Popular Demand!

Carl Brenders

We are very excited to announce that our popular Window on Wildlife calendar is back by popular demand for 2015.  The wall calendar will feature extremely realistic images of wildlife depicted in their habitats created by famous naturalist and painter Carl Brenders, internationally acclaimed as one of the greatest Nature painters of all time.

Carl was born in 1937 near Antwerp where he still lives with his wife, Paula. He started drawing at a very early age and trained at the Fine Art Academy and later in Berchem and began his career as an illustrator of children’s books on natural history. For long revered and collected by admirers around the world, in September 2002 he was deservedly honoured by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin, USA, as their Master Wildlife Artist, describing it as ‘the high point of my career’. He was also conferred the titles of Featured Artist and Guest Artist from the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition in Charleston, SC, the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, WY and Bennington Center for the Arts, VT.  Carl Brenders’ paintings are present in prestigious permanent collections such as The Ford Collection in Dearborn, MI and those of the Woodson Art Museum and the National Museum of Wildlife Art.  In 1998 he was inducted into the U.S. Art Hall of Fame.  Outside the United States, his paintings received a lot of attention at major art auctions such as Christie’s, UK, Bonham’s in Singapore and Mondiale, LTD in Hong Kong.  The high point of Carl’s career was a retrospective exhibition of 30 of his works entitled “Artistry in Nature: The Wildlife Paintings of Carl Brenders” which opened in 1997 at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History before traveling to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland OH, the Bernheim Museum & Arboretum in Louisville, KY and the Norton Art  Gallery in Shreveport, LA.

2015 Window on Wildlife Wall Calendar

Carl’s process includes taking countless photos of the animal and its habitat, taking great care to document all of the elements that will set the stage for his subject such as the vegetation at a particular time of year, the light, the relief of the landscape, the shape and colour of the rocks. Only then will Carl let his imagination kick in by drawing a few sketches. His vision finally materializes in a detailed pencil drawing which he then projects to his illustration board making adjustments to his composition before applying colour. His paintings are typically created on illustration board and is executed in a mixed-media combination of watercolour and gouache.

On the left is a sneak peak of Carl's 2015 Wall Calendar, Window on Wildlife. Are you excited yet?

Perfect time to purge

Ottawa Citizen (a National Magazine Awards Winner) has published an article about Alice Hinther. Check it out right here!

Artist Spotlight: Mia Lane

Photo of Mia Lane

Animal imagery, especially dogs, comprise the majority of Mia Lane’s artwork. Some images are painted plein air, others are created in the studio from field sketches combined with photography and her imagination. Her artwork uses mediums from oils, acrylics, watercolours, etchings, mixed media and pen and ink. 

Mia was recently commissioned by the prestigious Kennel Club Art Gallery in London, UK to paint for an exhibit called ‘The Newfoundland: An Exhibition of Art and History Portraying this Noble, Loyal Breed’.

The exhibit runs until January 2014 and celebrates the well-loved Newfoundland dog.  The painting, shown here, is called “The Hikers” and was inspired by Mia’s trip to Newfoundland.  Amazed by the rocky, barren windswept coastlines, she understood their need for a rugged, dependable, bear-like dog such as the Newfoundland.  The image will appear in Mia’s 2015 Must Love Dogs calendar.

Image of "The Hikers"
16" x 20" acrylic on board

Mia presently lives in Prince Edward County, with her husband Robert, three dogs and two ferrets. Her home doubles as a painting studio and has a stunning view overlooking the peaceful waters of Fish Lake. During her spare time, Mia is an avid gardener.

Young foxes playing in Mia's garden

Colourful inspiration found in at the garden

For more information on Mia Lane please visit her newly launched website: www.pawsinart.com