The Art of Michael J. Malzone

PAINT THE SEA
PLEIN AIR PAINTING WORKSHOP May 15th, 2010
AT SCENIC AVON-BY-THE-SEA, NJ
May 15th 9:30:00 am – 1:00 pm
Learn to paint Seascapes with ease for artists of all levels!

It’s Seascape season and we’re ready to go. Join me Satuday, May 15 at the beautiful Jersey shore and learn all the basic techniques for painting successful seascapes. This is a comprehensive, intense day of painting on location designed to give the participant a full understanding of painting the sea.The day starts with a lecture and paint demo, followed by students successfully completing at least one painting. Includes:
A pallette & color system
for painting the sea
Anatomy of the wave
Foam & foam patterns
Capturing atmosphere
Sky & clouds, much more

Recommended materials:
11 x14 canvas or bigger
Paints: Titanium white, ivory black, ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson,

cad yellow light,(also known as lemon yellow)
For more info.call: 973-720-0001
e-mail: mikemalzone@gmail.com
View Mikes work at: http://www.Michaelmalzone.com
Only $50.00 payable to:
Michael Malzone
Send to: 1441 Ratzer Road
Wayne, NJ 07470

Free Artists Color Workshop
Artists at any level ar invited to a wonderful free seminar, ” Seeing, Understanding, & Painting with Color” at the Creators Workshop Art School on January 28, 8 – 9:30 pm.
Sign up today for this amazing color workshop designed to remove the mystery of color mixing! In this workshop you’ll learn to observe and use color to paint the effect of light without ever having to guess again!
Among the many things you’ll learn in this comprehensive workshop are:
The Science of Light & Color:
How we perceive the color spectrum and how atmosphere and different conditions effect how we see. How this simple and fun
science lesson will make you a better painter immediately!
Pigments that work:
Creating a functional prismatic painting pallette that can accommodate any subject matter including landscape, seascape,portait,
and still life…. and applicable to any art medium.
Participants will learn easy and quick invaluable tools that will instantly improve your understanding of colors!
This workshop is absolutely free so sign up today as seating is limited at mikemalzone@gmail.com
Thursday, January 28, 8 – 9:30 pm at the Creators Workshop Art School
1441 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ
For reservations Call 973-720-0001 or visit us online at: www.Creatorsworkshop.com

Chemists Produce a New Blue!
Blue pigments of the past have often been expensive (ultramarine blue was made from the gemstone lapis lazuli, ground up), poisonous (cobalt blue is a possible carcinogen and Prussian blue, another well-known pigment, can leach cyanide) or apt to fade (many of the organic ones fall apart when exposed to acid or heat).

So it was a pleasant surprise to chemists at Oregon State University when they created a new, durable and brilliantly blue pigment by accident.
Read here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/science/24obpigment.html?_r=2

Colors are ablaze out there this week and I spent most of my afternoons in Goffle Brook Park located in Hawthorne, NJ. Completed four plein air pieces foe an exhibit at the Hawthorne Library along with some other local and very talented artists. The view of the pictures posted were from the westside of the park. There are hundreds of wonderful scenic views in the park for artists to paint from. I encourage you to see library exhibit on display through November 14th.

Autumn in Goffle Brook Park

Plein Air Paintout at Goffle Brook Park, Hawthorne, NJ.
Mark your calendars for the 1st annual Paintout taking place October 17th,2009.

Open to artists of all levels
You are cordially invited to join fellow artists in our 1st annual Goffle Brook Park
Plein air paint-out & exhibit. Goffle Brook Park in Hawthorne is a beautiful scenic park year round but really is spectacular during the Autumn foliage. Together we’ll paint in the park on October 17th and our paintings will be on exhibit and sale at the Hawthorne public library from Oct. 24th thru Nov. 17th with an artists reception on Sat., Oct. 24th from 1-3 pm.

TO register see detail below. E-mail Mike at mikemalzone@gmail.com with any questions.

Registration Info.
Artists are invited to paint in goffle brook park on Saturday, October 17th. We’ll meet at the parking lot of the dogwalk off of Diamond Bridge Ave. Artists can paint anywhere along the length of the park. Finished paintings with frames can be submitted at the library exhibit room from 2:30 – 3:30.
Artists are also invited to paint additional paintings throughout the week and finished art can be submitted Saturday, October 24 from 9-11 am. All submissions must be plein aire only. Over the next few weeks I’ll post info. as this moves along. I have postcards being printed and if you send me your mailing address, I’ll send you a pack to mail to friends, family and potential art buyers. This event will be promoted in local papers and I ask you to spread the word.
Artist can submit up to four paintings. Artwork will be available for sale at the
library. There is no fee for this show. 
Please join us for a unique opportunity for us to meet fellow artists and to celebrate this wonderful gift of painting we’ve been given with others.

Please copy and paste with info. below to e-mail: Mikemalzone@gmail.com

Name
phone
address
e-mail
website (optional)
paint medium
size
number of paintings your thinking of entering: 1 2 3 or 4

I will join artists on Sat, Oct. 17th at 8 am   (yes or no)
I can’t make it Sat. but will paint during the week (yes or no)
Please contact me to paint with other painters the week of the 17th (yes or no)

Thank you
(Feel free to contact me with any suggestions or corrections)
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Plein Air paint out dates;
Paint out: Saturday October 17th, 8 am – 2 pm

Art exhibit at Louis Bay Library
October 24th – November 17th 2009

Artists reception: Saturday October 24, 1-4 pm

Louis Bay 2nd Public Library
345 Lafayette Avenue
Hawthorne, NJ 07506
(973) 427-5745

Library Hours
Monday 9:00 – 9:00
Tuesday 9:00 – 9:00
Wednesday 9:00 – 9:00
Thursday 9:00 – 9:00
Friday 9:00 – 5:30
Saturday 10:00 – 5:00
Sunday CLOSED

Directions to Goffle Brook Park, Goffle Road, Hawthorne, NJ

From Interstate 80 East
Take Interstate 80 East to exit 60 “Hawthorne/ Passaic”. Bear left onto Route 20 North and continue approximately 3 miles to the end and bear left onto 1st Avenue in Paterson. Continue on 1st Avenue and bear right onto the bridge (Lincoln Avenue) to first traffic light. Make a left at the light onto Wagaraw Road to the first traffic light and make a right onto Lafayette Avenue. Take Lafayette Avenue to the first traffic light and make a left onto Diamond Bridge Avenue and go 1/4 of a mile and entrance to the park is on the left.

From Route 208 South
Take Route 208 South to the “Goffle Road/ Hawthorne/ Paterson” exit. Continue on Goffle Road and make a left onto Diamond Bridge Avenue. Enter into the first driveway on right hand side and then make a right into the parking lot.

Northeaster, 1895 Winslow Homer, 1836–1910
Oil on canvas ,  34 1/2 x 50 in.
Metropolitan museum of art, NY

In the mid-1890s, Homer began a series of paintings showing only water, coast, and sky. Prouts Neck, Maine, was one of the most frequently represented sites in these works.
Here’s a great article in the NY Times about Homer in Prout’s Neck. Click here to read.

PAINT THE SEA
PLEIN AIR PAINTING WORKSHOP Sept.21
AT SCENIC AVON-BY-THE-SEA, NJ
Sept. 21 10:00 am – 1:00 pm 

Learn to paint Seascapes with ease for artists of all levels!

There’s no better time to paint the ocean plein air than in September. The crowds are gone and the temperature is almost perfect.
 Join me Monday, Sept 21st  at the beautiful Jersey shore and learn all the basic techniques for painting successful seascapes. This is a comprehensive, intense day of painting on location designed to give the participant a full understanding of painting the sea.The day starts with a lecture and paint demo, followed by students successfully completing one painting. Includes:
A pallette & color system
for painting the sea
Anatomy of the wave
Foam & foam patterns
Capturing atmosphere
Sky & clouds, much more

Recommended materials:
11 x14 canvas or bigger
Paints: Titanium white, ivory black, ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson, cad yellow light,(also known as lemon yellow)
For more info.call: 973-720-0001
e-mail: mikemalzone@gmail.com
View Mikes work at: http://www.Michaelmalzone.com
Only $50.00  payable to:
Michael Malzone
Send to: 1441 Ratzer Road
Wayne, NJ 07470

Yesterday morning on the way to my studio I found this little Angel roaming the streets in the vicinity of Ratzer and Mayfair Road in Wayne. I decided to pick her up as she obviously didn’t know the rules of the road and would eventually be hit and possibly killed. No one has claimed her yet. She is a beautiful dog and as of today looks like she’s homeless. Looks like a Cockapoo. I’ll hold on to her for as long as possible and can make arrangements through Wayne FOWA to have her adopted if anyone is interested. She’s a wonderful companion, totally domesticated and housebroken. She’s an older dog, a very deep sleeper, and slow moving when she wakes up. Would hate to see her put in a shelter so spread the word, there’s an angel looking for a home! Call Mike at 973-720-0001 with any info.

Great article in seed magazine about how art can provide answers to fundamental questions in science by Jonah Lehrer, author of “How we decide”
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_future_of_science_is_art/

The tragedy, 1903, by Picasso

Artists have known for a very long time that color and luminance can be treated independently. Our perception of depth, three-dimensionality, movement (or the lack of it), and spatial organization are all carried by a subdivision of our visual system that is essentially color-blind, and sees the world in shades of gray. This is an evolutionarily older part of our visual system. One cannot see depth or motion in the absence of luminance contrast. In Picasso’s The Tragedy, one can appreciate the three-dimensionality of the scene because, despite the peculiar choice of colors, the luminance is just right.—Margaret Livingstone, Neuroscientist, Harvard University ©

I thought I’d share a valuable frame source I discovered recently. As a professional artist I’m always looking for a high quality frame source that’s pleasing to the customer and/or gallery owner and doesn’t break the bank. I recently had the privelege to purchase a few readymade frames from APF Munn Master Framemakers
located in Yonkers, NY.
. Their sales rep Jackie Lewis helped me find some fine quality frames at very competitive prices. There’s no financial incentive here for more nor is this some sales affiliate lead, just a satisfied customer that’s happy to share a good find.  Jackie Lewis at jlewis@apfmunn.com or visit their website at: www.apfmunn.com
APF Munn Master Framemakers
60 Fullerton Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10704
973-518-4201
www.apfmunn.com