Elliott Virgil Apsc

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Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Present is available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Borders, and other booksellers, also from Utrecht art supply stores and Daniel Smith Inc. Below is a link to it on Amazon.com:

About the Atelier
An Atelier, in the original usage of the word, is simply the studio of an artist, wherein his (or her) works are created, and in which a small number of promising students receive instruction directly from the Master of the atelier.

I'm currently at work on a portrait of the Jacquin family (David and Heidi, and their children Hayley and Alec) of Freestone, California, as my main project until it's finished. As soon as I find time to shoot photographs of it, I'll post them in the Works In Progress section of this web site at the completion of each stage in its development. When the family portrait is done, I'll resume work on my painting of the Dancer, and the portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach, which is for my friend John Allair. Then I hope to get back to my long-planned Major Opus. And somewhere in there, I need to return to the recording studio with my guitars and lute, to add to the seventeen solo instrumental pieces I recorded a few years ago. That project got put on "hold" while I got my book ready for the publisher, along with just about everything else in my life. I have ten or more solo pieces to record to add to those, and I'll be doing some ensemble work at Prairie Sun Recording Studio with John Allair and his combo as well, which I might also want to include in one of the albums I'm planning to produce. John is a great boogie-woogie and blues piano and jazz organ player who does a lot of work with Van Morrison. If I can ever figure out how to do it, or get help from someone who knows how, I probably should put some of my music up on this web site, or YouTube. But I'm not good with anything electronic, so that will have to wait until something falls into place. I have too many things to do already, and not enough time. I need to be at least two people; one to do the visual art, and one to be a full-time musician. And maybe another one to be a full-time writer, and another to..... Yes, I do too many things, and I don't want to quit doing any of them. That's my predicament.

Everyone who knows me knows Im high-tech-challenged, and struggle to keep up with the modern world. But at the urging of many of my friends, Ive finally decided to have a go at writing a blog, so here is my first entry.
Someone called this to my attention recently:
http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=2387713
The gist of it is that this investment advisor, Doug Up (I suspect this is a nom de plume) thinks it would be a good move to buy paintings or commission portraits from me now, and from another artist, Dan Gerhartz. I concur with his astute analysis, and add some more reasons to buy my paintings. As Mr. Up says, my reputation is growing, and the law of supply and demand favors me as a good investment prospect because the supply will become fixed as soon as I die, and Im 66 years old as this is written. On top of that, I ride motorcycles, which some folks regard as a dangerous activity. So those of you who have bought my paintings in the past would be wise to buy some more before some calamity befalls me, and those who have been thinking about it might consider doing it soon, before a truck runs over me or some other such thing happens. Whereas I have supreme confidence in my ability to remain alive while riding a motorcycle, with 44 years of experience to protect me from the dangers of the road, there are those who think Im a lunatic with a death wish when they see pictures of me riding on race tracks at my age (pictures of this are on the Photo Album section of my web site,) which characterization might or might not be accurate. The intelligent art collector could do a lot worse than buy paintings from an artist in his senior years who continues to engage in pursuits that most people regard as extremely dangerous.
I hope to hear from you soon.

Portrait/head study workshop January 14, 15 & 16, 2011 at the Atelier of Virgil Elliott on the former Eagle Ridge Winery, in Penngrove, California. $350 includes the model fee for all three days. Space is limited. Contact Virgil at (707) 664-8198 or e-mail for more information. The Atelier of Virgil Elliott is located 40 miles north of San Francisco in California's Wine Country.
Individuals or schools interested in hosting Virgil Elliott workshops, contact Virgil at VirgilElliott@AOL.com.