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Painting from Life, Portraiture, Drawing
Gregg Kreutz teaches a morning painting class and an evening drawing class. Mr.
Kreutz studied at the Art Students League with David Leffel and Robert Beverly Hale.
He teaches privately as well as at the Scottsdale Artistsä School, the Fechin Institute and
in workshops around the country.
He has exhibited with the Allied Artists and in the Audubon Artist annuals. He
has won many awards, including the Frank C. Wright Award, the Hudson Valley Art
Association, 1986; the Medal of Merit (First Prize in oils), Knickerbocker Artists; the
Council of American Artists Awards, Salmagundi Club; the Grumbacher Award,
Knickerbocker Artists; and First Prize in the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibition.
He has had one-man shows at Grand Central Galleries, New York City; the Fanny Garver
Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin; and the Newport Art Association, Newport, Rhode Island.
In New York, he exhibits at the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery.
The following quotes are from his book, Problem Solving for Oil Painters,
published in the fall of 1986 by Watson-Guptill, now in its sixth printing.
"The intensity of a picture is an echo of the intensity with which it was painted.
Your attitude toward the worth of your efforts shows up on the canvas. If youäre
indifferent, the picture will be uninvolving. You donät have to think you are great but you
do need to feel that what youäre after is great.¹
"Painters are fortunate in that they can convey large ideas with very modest
means. But that ease of production shouldnät trivialize the painteräs attitude. He shouldnät
feel that a couple of hours spent painting is simply a diversion. Itäs really an opportunity
to expand. And realistic painting is an especially rewarding endeavor.To actively go after
it means to learn what makes art, and what the external world really looks like, and how
the two can be fused.¹
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