Latest News from Steve Quiller
Quiller on the August 2014 Cover of "The Watercolor Artist"
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Steven Quiller's painting "Mountain Patterns By Equity Mine" is on the cover of the August 2014 issue of "The Watercolor Artist" magazine. Quiller also wrote a feature article "Acrylic: The Other Water Medium, " in which "a passionate watercolorist expands his creative and technical repertoire by exploiting the unique qualities of acrylics."
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Quiller Painting Workshop Opportunity in Creede
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Still a few spots available! • May 31-June 6
Working Sketches & Color Foundation: 4UR Ranch, Creede, Colorado
This venue is simply the best I have ever experienced. The accommodations, food and care that the staff gives is incredible! This workshop combines both the outdoor and studio painting experience. We will go to beautiful mountain locations and make what I call "working sketches." These are not finished drawings but informational notes of the subject, both black and white and color studies. We will take this work back to the studio and use the studies for reference to develop finished works. In the studio emphasis will be given to the color foundation. We will begin with a limited palette and work with value and intensity. Throughout the week we will build to the more complex. Marta and I will host a Friday evening dinner at our home and a tour of my studio.
For information and to sign up please contact: Robin Christensen
PO Box 340, Creede, CO 81130
Gold Medal Winner - 2014 American Watercolor Society Exhibition
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Steve Quiller has been awarded the AWS Gold Medal of Honor in the 2014-2015 Annual American Watercolor Society's annual exhibit.
Each year the Society holds a juried exhibition of watercolors from artists throughout the world. The 147th Annual International Exhibition will take place April 1-20 at the Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, in New York City.
Creede Cabin Fever Daze - a Winter Festival - Feb 14-16th
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| You are invited to attend the Quiller Mid-Winter Fest Gallery Opening February 15-17 Quiller Gallery • Creede, CO 
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Mid-Winter Fest – Cabin Fever Days Friday, February 14 Saturday, February 15 Sunday, February 16 Monday, February 17 Visit www.creede.com for more info |
BEAUTY IN THE BURN
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I walk, late evening, from my studio in the moon shadow and experience the Milky Way splashed across the sky. I think of how minuscule and fleeting life can be. Yet even these moments can be so rich and one’s mark can be left and it can bring joy to those that encounter it.
October 10, 2013
In mid-June of 2013 two fires broke out in our area: the West Fork Fire and the Papoose. For three weeks our town was closed off and many of the guest ranches and summer homes were evacuated. And those that were not were on evacuation alert. In total 110,000 acres burned leaving a black scar on the land. It also was devastating to the local economy and our community’s lives.
When the smoke cleared and denial had left my soul I felt compelled to paint the “Burn”. I began scouting the various back roads, going around some Road Closed signs to experience the heart of the burn.
In the process I have come to some major realizations. The majority of our forests covered with the “beetle kill spruce” was already dead. The fire in a sense was a cleansing to open up and give room for new growth. In some of the most heavily burned areas new fresh aspen saplings are sprouting everywhere. These aspen roots have lain dormant forever waiting to come up after a fire. Wildflowers are bursting into the black and gray landscape. Magenta fire weed are hip high along stream’s edge with new yellow-green grass covering the banks.
I walk gently on this fresh wound blanketed with burnt spruce needles and charcoal ash. Yet I am a part ot this wound- nature’s wound is our wound. This land that I have come to know in a certain way over the last forty some years will not be again in my lifetime.
It takes fresh eyes to see that there is in fact beauty in the burn. And so I go out to paint every day using a palette unlike any I have ever used. I have gone through more ivory black and Payne’s gray in the last few weeks than I have used in a lifetime. I am exploring so many different ways to express. Painting outside I am working on black paper and with casein. In the studio I am experimenting with gold and black gessoed aquabord panels and painted with acrylic. Sometimes I lift back with Q-tips or brush using rubbing alcohol. I plan to do collage works using the actual ash and burnt spruce needles for texture.
I have done some monotypes using two plates. So far they are straight forward but I am sensing some experimental works with chine colle and ash sticks. Who knows where this will all go but I am inspired and am seeing “Beauty in the Burn”.
Complete Color Foundation For the Painter - DVD Teaser
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Have you ever wanted to learn color theory directly from a professional painter and color theorist? Stephen Quiller has been studying and developing color theory for the painter for the past forty years, and now for the first time he is sharing his knowledge in a complete DVD set.
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