Richard Schmid

First one up is an article called A Guiding Light.

It's by Michael Pierce, and he writes about Richard Schmid and the palette and chisel.

Richard Schmid, of course, was the very famous painter who passed away not that long ago.

Really remarkable guy.

Richard Schmid passed away in 2021.

I had to look up the years because it feels like it was just not that long ago, but it was five years ago.

That Richard Schmidt passed away.

He lived a long, full life.

You don't have to be an abstractionist to make it and kind of open my eyes to to everyone from James Reynolds to Terpening.

I took a workshop with my teacher from Richard Schmidt.

That really opened my eyes.

And so those times of seeing that there is another venue here where traditional art is surviving and there is a market for it.

For me, that's always kind of a moving target because different days I'll be thinking about different things.

But definitely Mark Boges.

And then by default, I guess you got to include Richard Schmidt.

Mark is in that lineage.

And for those guys, it's the value accuracy, the brushwork, the design, all of it.

One great way to search is to look at an artist you know you like, and it could be a living artist.

Um, for instance, I remember researching Richard Schmid and what, what was his, you know, who was it that inspired him? And it was a, it was an instructor at the Chicago museum and it was Monet, you know, and they were basically trying to resurrect the late 19th century through, uh, Schmid's work, uh, somewhat.

And, um, he also blended some expressionism, I believe, and, you know, and some other things were coming into what he did.

Well, once you start getting those words, okay, you got Monet, you've got the his teacher's name at the art Institute.

This is our commission rate." And I say, "Well, this is, that won't work for me.

This is what I work on." "Well, we can't do that 'cause we're on the same rate with every artist." Well, I know for a fact they aren't, and I know if Howard Terpning or Richard Schmid came into the gallery and said, uh, "25% commission", who's gonna say no to that? A, a Howard Terpning million-dollar painting.

Boy, I'm only gonna get 250,000 instead of 400,000 because, uh, I had to stick to the 60/40 commission or 50/50 or whatever it is.

I don't know.

Like so often people are like, there's no group near me.

I'm like, hey, if you're literally and there's nobody around, you can probably get a mirror and do self-portraits, draw your hands, draw your feet, and get books like Andrew Loomis' Figure Drawing for All It's Worth and do the Charles Barr course and get Richard Schmidt's book if you're starting to paint.

So even if you're isolated and solitary, like there are ways hopefully you know i don't mean to make light of that but if you have access to certain things you can advance your creative uh skills but then um but then yeah even in this little town we've managed to uh if you add it up that's like 500 weeks that we've had somebody usually different we've painted a few people more than once but generally that it's a different person every week and um and that's just like i did at the scarab club back in detroit and 90s and um uh so yeah there's i have a show at our fine arts center that opened last week and it's up till october 17th and um And that's just kind of an interesting collection at this point in life of new, old, landscape still life, figurative, drawing, painting.

There's like 42 pieces.

They will confess to you immediately.

You're like, that sounds great.

Then at that point, you can say, have you heard of Andrew Loomis' figure drawing for All It's Worth, or Richard Schmidt's A La Prima, or do you know about Charles Barg, and maybe more academic approach.

You can make an informed thing that can really maybe resonate with them so um yeah i i love the inner connection you know connecting with other folks other creative people and such i i still visit studios all the time i just visited scott burick and susan lyon and um whenever i'm out and about i'm like aware of like who lives near there you know i can go say hey so if you're near try on north carolina come and visit me

Bought a paint kit when he was 11 with his birthday money, which I just find adorable.

Uh, as a teenager, he discovered Richard Schmid, who we all know is just amazing, and they formed a close, you know, mentorship, friendship.

And he works not only in oil, which is what I thought he did exclusively, but he's also recently started working with pastel.

And he is the winner of the Portrait Society of America's Draper Grand Prize.

Yeah.

Don't know where it came from.

Well, now, n- now everybody w- wishes they could have studied with Richard Schmid.

So [laughs] like the ultimate, you know, artist and teacher, and so well thought of.