The Weinman Herrmann Collaboration: we paint unique interpretations of masterpieces.
What began as a student teacher relationship has evolved into the traditional apprentice master relationship and into a collaboration. According to tradition, if you wanted to learn how to paint, your father paid for you to apprentice in a master's workshop. By watching and copying the master's work you learned how to paint. Eventually, the apprentice is encouraged to paint portions of the master's compositions, as Leonardo da Vinci did in his master, Verrocchio's paintings. At this point and in our modern world this work may be classified as a collaboration.
Melissa Weinman has been teaching Lara Herrmann how to paint by allowing her to select the masterpieces she wanted to study and then teaching her how to paint them. Copying masterpieces is a time-tested method for learning the demanding art of representational painting. Weinman has been copying masterpieces for years as a way of improving her own painting skills. Now Melissa and Lara are painting masterpieces together.
Technically no one alive today has ever heard Mozart's music. We have only heard people copying and interpreting his music. Why should it be different with art? Melissa and Lara are taking masterpieces from the past and bringing them into this century to celebrate them. Contact us to bring your dream of owning a masterpiece into reality!
Below are photographs of our work and process.
Melissa Weinman has been teaching Lara Herrmann how to paint by allowing her to select the masterpieces she wanted to study and then teaching her how to paint them. Copying masterpieces is a time-tested method for learning the demanding art of representational painting. Weinman has been copying masterpieces for years as a way of improving her own painting skills. Now Melissa and Lara are painting masterpieces together.
Technically no one alive today has ever heard Mozart's music. We have only heard people copying and interpreting his music. Why should it be different with art? Melissa and Lara are taking masterpieces from the past and bringing them into this century to celebrate them. Contact us to bring your dream of owning a masterpiece into reality!
Below are photographs of our work and process.
BIG NEWS:
Our paintings Christ Crucified After Velazquez, 74” x 51”, and Judith Slaying Holofernes After Artemisia Gentileschi, 62” x 49” were hung last summer and officially blessed by Bishop Luis Artemio Flores Calzada at the 102nd Anniversary Celebration of the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe during the week of October 8-14, 2023. The Celebration also featured opera, dance, and theatre performances. Our paintings are on view and permanent loan at the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Melissa Weinman has been painting sacred art for most of her 40-year career. In 1997, her exhibition Saint Stories opened at Seattle’s Frye Art Museum and toured the country. Also in 1997, Weinman was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome when she was interviewed by Radio Vaticana for The Church and Art Part III: A Friendship Revisited. In 2000, her image Study for Christ, which now hangs in Seattle University’s Art Gallery, won Fourth Place in the National Catholic Reporter's Jesus 2000 Contest judged by Sister Wendy Beckett. Weinman’s 6’ x 13’ Schutzmantel Madonna, (Our Lady of Mercy), hangs in the Chapel of the Annie Wright School in Tacoma, WA. Her Saint Lucy: Patron Saint of Vision, and Saint Clare: Patron Saint of Television both reside in the Tacoma Art Museum.
Lara Herrmann is a personal injury attorney at Herrmann Law Group in Tacoma and Seattle, Washington, who has been studying painting with Weinman for 7 years.
Future projects include a replica of the original tilma image of Our Lady of Guadalupe for the Museum of the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Our paintings Christ Crucified After Velazquez, 74” x 51”, and Judith Slaying Holofernes After Artemisia Gentileschi, 62” x 49” were hung last summer and officially blessed by Bishop Luis Artemio Flores Calzada at the 102nd Anniversary Celebration of the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe during the week of October 8-14, 2023. The Celebration also featured opera, dance, and theatre performances. Our paintings are on view and permanent loan at the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Melissa Weinman has been painting sacred art for most of her 40-year career. In 1997, her exhibition Saint Stories opened at Seattle’s Frye Art Museum and toured the country. Also in 1997, Weinman was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome when she was interviewed by Radio Vaticana for The Church and Art Part III: A Friendship Revisited. In 2000, her image Study for Christ, which now hangs in Seattle University’s Art Gallery, won Fourth Place in the National Catholic Reporter's Jesus 2000 Contest judged by Sister Wendy Beckett. Weinman’s 6’ x 13’ Schutzmantel Madonna, (Our Lady of Mercy), hangs in the Chapel of the Annie Wright School in Tacoma, WA. Her Saint Lucy: Patron Saint of Vision, and Saint Clare: Patron Saint of Television both reside in the Tacoma Art Museum.
Lara Herrmann is a personal injury attorney at Herrmann Law Group in Tacoma and Seattle, Washington, who has been studying painting with Weinman for 7 years.
Future projects include a replica of the original tilma image of Our Lady of Guadalupe for the Museum of the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.