Wood Turning Demonstration with Joe Altwer

Joe is well-known around town as a Masterful Oil Painter and Instructor trained in traditional, representational style. He focuses on painting landscapes and life on location (Plein Air).  As it turns out, Joe has a passion for wood too, and is is pretty darn handy with a lathe as well as a paintbrush!  

The turning process starts with a log, either storm fallen or destined for the landfill. Using a chainsaw, Joe cuts up the log into bowl blanks and shape them on the lathe. Leaving them thick, he then puts them aside for six months to dry before putting them back on the lathe to give them their final shape. A food safe oil is applied and they are ready for use. 

Watch Joe work shaping wood bowls during the Makers Marketplace on Thursday,  May 2 from 3-7 PM.  Joe will display a variety of bowls of different woods and in different stages of completion

Bio

Joseph Altwer is a traditional realist oil painter from California. He began his studies in 2005 at The Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy where he taught for several years. After graduating from the FAA in 2009, Joseph shared a studio and worked along side Leo Mancini-Hresko and Marc Dalessio where he was introduced to landscape painting. Later in 2013 he taught drawing and painting at the Barcelona Academy of Art in Barcelona, Spain for five years. Altwer’s style of painting has a foundation in traditional techniques with an Impressionist palette, in which he makes his own paints, mediums and canvases. Altwer prefers to work from life, considering it to be the true source of beauty.

Joe and his wife, Aina hold weeklong workshops both in studio and landscape painting, as well as offering weekly classes in their studio Nuance Fine Art located at 604 Main St. suite E in Half Moon Bay.  https://www.nuancefineart.com/