The Tiffin Art Guild's monthly meeting was hosted last evening by member Carol Hoffman, oil painter, enamelist and art teacher. Her studio takes up most of her huge home in Clyde, Ohio, about 18 miles from Tiffin, where I live and drink.



Carol has a huge collection of what I call "props." They range from glass and ceramic collectibles to just about any object she could envision in a still life painting.



Every one of the many walls in the studio portion of her home is covered with her artwork. The living part of her house is too!



She gave us a "lesson" in her method of painting. Carol first works with acrylics to create a "grisaille" underpainting. Then she works the colors over the gray grisaille with transparent oil paints.







Carol teaches art classes all over the eastern USA. Soon she will be down in the Piedmont area for a couple of those. She studied both in the US and Europe.



The last photo shows the painting she did in a little over one hour as she demonstrated her method to us. We watched, mouths agape!



Thanks, Carol!

If you have trouble viewing these photos, go to the TAG web site and there is a page with all of them there. I posted the photos about an hour ago (Tuesday 5 p.m.) Photos courtesy of member Brenna Blymyer!

https://www.tiffinartguild.org