Plein Air Painting with Sorolla’s Spirit Workshop

Sorolla Workshop-1-1Master Abdón J. Romero will be giving a workshop at Crandon Park Beach, Key Biscayne, Sunday Jan 22nd, 9:00-2:00 pm. Only $78! He will be teaching how to interpret the figure under Sorolla’s light in Miami, with an emphasis on expressive painting, capturing light and vibrant charges of colors. He will discuss composition, value, temperature, the use of contrast and brushstrokes rhythm. Abdón and his assistance will help the rest of the day each student to create quick , spontaneous studies.

The Drawing Lounge Sat Jan 21th 7-10 pm

DrawingLounge_1The Drawing Lounge is a place for artists all levels and art lovers who gather on a regular basis to draw and celebrate art in a professionally set-up environment. The Drawing Lounge main focus is the hosting of themed sessions that provides top-notch models, casual networking exchange, and artistic inspiration.
Our regular sessions are held the third Saturday of every month at Romero Hidalgo Artists’ Studios/MyArt Ventures LLC 4241 Sw 75th Av. Miami Fl 33155 . Artists bring their own art supplies.$20 entrance fee. Photography is not allowed. Participants must be 21+.

Drawing anatomy. Upper body section workshop

On February 19th, 21st and 22nd, we offered a great workshop, a very unique and creative way to study the human body, the model was directly painted on her skin to describe the muscles; the students were amazed and very excited for the results of their work.

Annual Art Show and Holiday Party 2009

We will have this year our Annual Art Show and Holiday Party hosted by Jerry’s Artarama Artist’s supplies store in Miami.

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Great workshop Features of the face

We had a very successful workshop, the attendees and the Professor worked really hard with great results.

Painting features of the face one at a time

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This workshop is an in-depth knowledge and practice of the individual features of the face (eyes, nose, mouth) and how they should be observed and painted in oil from three different views (full-face, 3/4, and profile). We will work  from photographs of models of varying ages, gender and race. Demos and slide show examples. Basic drawing experience required.

Our Oil color mixing workshop

After more than a year of waiting, we are back with our workshops, here I post some photos of the Oil color mixing workshop. We enjoyed three intensive days of work!.

Workshops 2009-10

Workshops 2009-10:  a new serie of workshops to concentrate on skill development in specific areas of realist drawing and painting. In a professional format, students will grow experience in different subjects and techniques. We are opening the serie with The Color Mixing Workshop, Oct 30th, Nov 1st and 2nd. From 9:30 am – 4:30 pm. For more information, please call to the studio. Limited group size of 12 students.

Life figure painting demonstration with guest artist Stephen Bauman

Stephen Bauman demo

Stephen Bauman demo

The Romero Hidalgo Artists’ Studios and NFX Studios will be honored to host two days “Live figure painting demonstration/ Sight-size approach” with Stephen Bauman. We will be privileged to hear and see more about Stephen’s academic sight-size method of painting. He will discuss his palette organization, setting up your model, background, light conditions, setting up your canvas, sight-size measurements process, proportions, and value as color. To Stephen, skill in drawing is fundamental, and among the most important assets a painter can possess. In his four years as a student he worked to understand the relationship of drawing to painting in the same way his teachers at the Academy understood it. As an instructor in the Intensive Drawing Program since 2007, by teaching the principles of drawing as they were handed down to him, he feels he has learned as much as he has taught, and hopes to transmit the same to his students.

Date: August Saturday 29 and Sunday 30, 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Joaquin Sorolla retrospective Exhibition


The Museo del Prado is presenting the largest and most important retrospective ever to be devoted to the work of Joaquín Sorolla, the most internationally celebrated Spanish painter of the XIX century. The exhibition includes more than 100 paintings by the artist and will offer a comprehensive overview of his finest works, among them all of his great masterpieces. They include the group of panels entitled Visions of Spain, painted for the Hispanic Society of America and brought to Spain by Bancaja in 2007. On exhibition from 26 May through 6 September, 2009.