Teaching in Studio

I just finished painting with Cynthia today at the studio. I broke down an image of her choice and taught her a variety of techniques such as brush loading and a bit of color mixing. more images on the link  

Barbara Bry

It was a pleasure speaking with Barbara Bry to see what she has planned for San Diego when she becomes mayor.  link leads to video.

Social Distance Painting – Seaport Village

It was great doing a painting event for this lovely family at Seaport Village for their reunion a little while back. We painted until it was dark and a lot of these ladies were a lot fun! We kept it safe by wearing masks and I sanitized all of the art equipment; I wore gloves, Read more about Social Distance Painting – Seaport Village[…]

Social Distance Painting

It was a pleasure social distance painting a sunset with Orly’s group as the sun set last night. ☀️✌️? Everyone did a great job! Link to more images

Social Distance Reunion Painting

It’s tough these days, but we can still make some good memories safely (not that anyone wants to remember Covid; however, we may want to remember time with each other). Grandma wanted to make her little ones’ visit in San Diego memorable and I was happy to be with folks with good energy for their Read more about Social Distance Reunion Painting[…]

Social Distance Painting

We had a successful social distancing painting workshop for Kineret’s birthday yesterday. My group had lots of reservations, but we all painted a pretty good expressionist beach scene together. This link has more images from our event.

Social Distance Painting

  It was a super hot, but extremely fun day painting with these awesome young artists for a special unicorn birthday party last weekend.  They had such great energy and did a great job on their paintings  ?☀️ More process pictures on this link

Social Distance Painting

I had the pleasure of doing a painting workshop with Vanessa’s family for Layla’s birthday on Fourth of July!  This was my very first social distance painting and it was great to dust off my painting supplies to paint with such a lovely family in Rancho Bernardo! More pictures here: link

Hickman Hearts

  I finally finished a project today that my art students (tk-5th) and I was working on before covid… I was working on this piece while the 5th graders were having a distance graduation and finished it with helicopters circling in the air. I was so happy and privileged working as an art teacher six Read more about Hickman Hearts[…]

New Painting

This is my newest painting on the easel.

Quarantine Drawing

Hello my name is Mr. Leo and I am an art teacher at Hickman Elementary and I teach painting at Sandburg Elementary.  During this quarantine I have been doing free live online classes because I just want my students and your kids to continue creating.  My foundational art class has us drawing simple shapes and Read more about Quarantine Drawing[…]