In Gratitude for Steve Doherty

In Gratitude for

Steve Doherty

Hawaiian Waterfall, 24 x 18", Oil, © M. Stephen Doherty
Hawaiian Waterfall   24 x 18″   Oil   M. Stephen Doherty

   We to start with fulfilled Steve when we have been dwelling on the Hudson River in the tiny hamlet of Garrison, New York, in 1983. He drove up from his house in Croton-on-Hudson to show up at our community’s once-a-year on-spot paint-out and auction at the Garrison Artwork Heart at Garrison’s Landing. I did not expect that the Editor-in-Chief of American Artist journal would trouble with our modest little demonstrate with so considerably going on in New York Town, but plein air gatherings were a relatively new notion again then, and he was curious about it. One attract may well have been that Garrison Landing is right on the river in the incredibly coronary heart of the famed scenic Hudson Highlands, instantly across from West Level Military Academy.

   He was an affable and obtainable man

3 Fun Art Lessons to Show Gratitude

In excess of the years, I’ve done a handful of gratitude model jobs that my students have not only enjoyed but actually sparked joy close to the university. I’m breaking these down from most involved to least complicated incase you are uncertain which you would like to do.

Let’s start out with my favourite: Gallery of Gratitude Modeling Clay Portraits!

For all the lesson aspects, you can pay a visit to my initial site put up in which I established a video I shared with my college students. This launched a modeling clay artist as very well as walked them by the measures. 

I did this lesson with my fourth quality learners. They could choose who to build a portrait of…but, as you can visualize, that got a little challenging. Various students volunteered to produce a portrait of a instructor or workers member whom they did not know nicely. We