"The workshop will be a Still Life Class for beginners, intermediate, or advanced painting students centered on challenging students to create their own references and then using those to incorporate elements of realism into fantasy, visionary, or even abstract painting. (I'll be teaching from the perspective of using acrylics, but if you are a die hard oil painter that's fine, too.) Observational painting from life is a great way for honing the fundamental skills needed to take one's painting technique to a higher level. This WON'T be painting bowls of fruit or flower vases.

"Each student will create their own diorama by constructing a scene out of various objects and materials that will serve as a template to base their paintings off of. I will walk each student through the steps of constructing a reference with lighting, choosing and developing a composition, creating an underpainting, and working in color.

"In the first class the student will construct a reference that they can use as their subject, make some thumbnail drawings of possible compositions, and then work on a 3 tone monochromatic underpainting.

Announcing a new visionary art gallery and seeker's center!
Gallery Lucid is celebrating its grand opening on Saturday Nov. 18th from 4pm to 9pm, with food, wine. Come join the festivities; this is a free event. See local art, meet the artists--and see them in action! Watch featured artists collaborate on paintings at the in front of the gallery. 
Gallery Lucid is showcasing the works of:
Elliot Rogers 
Greg Pettit 
Byron Aldridge 
William Allan Ross 
Dixon Gregory Stovall
Brandy Rainey-Amstel
Tourmaline Todd Shepherd 
Michael Garfield
Erik Kuykendall
Starting at 7pm there will be a truly inspiring live music experience: Violinist Roberto Paolo Riggio (classical/mediterranean/improv violinist) and Jose Manuel Tejeda (classical/flamenco/improv guitarist) will be playing and we will have improvisational dancers dancing.

Greg Pettit is a contemporary artist from Plano, TX. In 2003 he moved to Austin, eventually enrolling at the University of Texas College of Fine Arts. He graduated with a BFA in Studio Art in 20008.
Greg first began painting in 2006 and by late 2007 and had abandoned most of his prior artistic direction to move forward with a body of work that corresponded to his growing fascination with the terror and beauty of trans-dimensional realities.  
Straddling the line between abstraction and polished rendering of sensible forms, Greg strives to create imagery that exists within a refracted sense of space and time. His work is characterized by depictions of abstract landscapes, transparent machine-like forms, fantastic creatures, and geometrically defined sentinel-like structures.