Alex Cogbill is an artist. A real artist. Not just an artist with paint, charcoal, and canvases…an artist that teaches kids how to be an artist. Not everyone can do that. He’s been teaching children and adults for years and recently opened his own studio/gallery called Local Color in Fayetteville.
To quote Alex, “Don’t be scared of just doing! Art isn’t the time to ask questions first, you’re learning the questions as you’re going along and answering them at the same time. Sometimes you have to dive right in and do something the “wrong” way, in order to find out how to make it “right”.
Here’s Alex teaching a simple way to paint a tree – complete with brush techniques and a warm-up exercise! Read below for more on Alex {including contact info}.
Alex is from Fort Smith and went to college at U of A Fayetteville where he received his BFA in Art Education in 2011. He’s taught countless classes to children and adults – anything from private lessons, to nearly 100 people at an event at the holiday inn convention center.
Alex just won the South Main Sculpture Competition to be installed later this year in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Here’s a few pics of some of Alex’s work.
