Sergio Lopez

North Bay Area based Fine Artist Sergio Lopez. Oil paintings, gouache paintings, plein air paintings, and charcoal drawings. http://www.themainloop.com

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Charcoal Drawing: Long Time, No Post…

Hey everyone! First off, let me apologize for not being more consistent with posting figure drawings here. I haven’t been as consistent with attending sessions lately, and I feel it. These were done within the last 4 months. I tried to post them in order of time they were drawn. Some of these are available [...]

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Carmel Art Festival 2013 Recap

I am happy to tell you that the Carmel Art Festival this year was a success! Even with such an amazing roster of artists, I was able to grab an award this year and sell the award-winning painting! Unbelievable. But before I jump the gun and get into all of that, I’ll walk you through [...]

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Animal Fare Part 2: Wild Animals

I didn’t get a chance to show you these before the show opened, but in addition to the paintings of dogs that I did for the “Animal Fare” exhibition at the Christopher Queen Gallery, I painted these two larger works. “Surveying The Hunt,” 20×30 in. oil on linen. $3000 This painting was the result of [...]

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Crashing Monterey…

Last week the Plein Air Convention happened down in Monterey, which is a couple of hours away from me. I went down to hang out with whoever was going to be there after it was over. Fortunately I saw some good friends of mine from up north as well as locals and others. I met [...]

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Build Your Own French Mistress…

Hey everyone, I built this paint box for my studio to replace the way-too-small palette I was using before. How they got the name “French Mistress” I have no idea, other than maybe the folks at Richeson were feeling bawdy in the naming office one day. Anyways, I took some photos along the way so [...]

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