What: “Paris, City of Lights”
Where: Legion of Honor, Main Lobby, San Francisco
When: 12:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Marius will be showing his paintings and will be demonstrating his painting techniques from 12 to 3pm on Sat Sept 18th at the Legion of Honor to celebrate Legion of Honor’s show called “Paris, City [...]
Piazzoni Murals Room
6:00–8:45 p.m.
Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musee d’Orsay painting demonstration by San Francisco artist Marius Starkey. Marius demonstrates the same techniques used by the artists who are included in this exciting exhibition. Watch Marius do a landscape painting, create a pastel, and make a watercolor. Talk to Marius and [...]
I’m participating in this year’s Open Studios at Hunter’s Point Shipyard. You can find me and a collection of my work at Building No. 116, Studio #10. The studios are open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. I’m looking forward to seeing you!
View Map Here!
I always start my art residences, by giving a lecture on the lives of a few artists. I began one class by talking about the great Mexican muralist, Diego Riviera, partly because the class was mainly made up of Latino students. I needed them to know about the intense and unremitting labor required [...]
At the beginning of many of my art residency, I have a color mixing session, as many of my students have never had an art class before so they have no knowledge of mixing colors. After explaining the process, I noticed one student looking quite wide-eyed. As I walked over to his desk [...]
The Open Studio at Hunters Point Ship Yard (www.hunterspointcommunity.com) was a great success. Some 400 people came to the building 116 studio 10 to see my work along with my studio mate Rob Cox. May 2nd and 3rd saw some 150 studios open to the public and even with the rain many [...]
One day while driving outside of Taos, I spotted my next landscape to paint. I parked myself about 10 feet inside the entrance of a dirt road. I quickly unloaded my painting materials and set-up my easel. After sometime, I was approached by a Pueblo police officer that demanded I get off their [...]
A few years back, I won the Helene Wurlitzer award for painting; the prize was a three-month residency in Taos, New Mexico. One day, I found myself painting just at the edge of town when a heavyset woman sprang out from a house nearby with a shotgun and four little, yapping dogs. Walking [...]
I have always found power, energy, and inspiration from the locations that I use as subjects for my paintings. It is the give and take from the view where I stand, the time of day, the temperature, the wind, and the light that fuse my attention and direct how I will interpret that [...]