Featured are oil paintings, short videos, and a blog by Leigh Cohn, who is self-taught and uses a projector technique. He has given away more than 350 canvases, which are hanging in the offices of Forever Balboa Park (formerly the Balboa Park Conservancy) in San Diego, Carlsbad City Hall, homes, and offices. In 2022, supporters of his artwork donated $13,617 to the Ocean Conservancy, and in 2023 he had a two-month "Featured Artist" solo exhibit at the Carlsbad Senior Center, where he teaches painting classes and lectures on Impressionism.
Read the blog article, "I Sold My First Painting" which tells the story of a 12-foot commission based on Monet's "Green Reflections. Includes the painting process, why I made the sale, the price paid, and 3-minute video.
This six-week class at the Carlsbad Senior Center is specifically for participants of my previous classes. (Sept 19 - Oct 24)
"Claude Monet & the Age of Impressionism"
Carlsbad Senior Center & Streaming
October 30, 2024 • 3:00-4:30
An intimate lecture on the painter’s art and life, and the rise of the Impressionist movement. Including colorful stories and more than 150 paintings, the lecture will include insights into Monet’s methods, professional ups-and-downs, personality, wives, children, and friendships, as well as his legacy as one of the greatest painters in the history of art. Will also be live streamed.
Here’s the inside story of how Impressionism began:
• The four painters who became close friends as students…
• Why 1,500 of Pissarro’s were destroyed
• How Renoir avoided a firing squad
• Manet was no Monet
• The love lives and personalities of the key figures
• Berthe Morisot was the first woman in the "anonymous society"
• A deceased painter had the idea for an exhibit
• Who Monet called "The greatest of us all"
… and much more!
