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Hi Joan,
Your experience with learning to paint in a language foreign to you made me laugh!! But your story is very encouraging. Thanks for sharing that.
To answer some of your questions, no, artists are not lining up to teach me!!! In fact I haven't been able to find anyone until now. He has a small class of ten students and teaches on Thursdays for three hours. But he has taken particular students under his tutelage,(over the years students have lived with he and his wife in a room off the studio!) He only requires that I pay for the first ten weeks up front and then it is pay as you go. He has some students who have been coming for years and he says it is like a small art community.
Here is why I am hesitating. He used to use live models but doesn't anymore. He strictly lets his students come in with photographs. That one issue is very worrisome. I understand that most artists take photos and do not paint from sittings but I don't know if that would be the best way for me to begin, from all that I read here. I was thinking about asking him if I could bring in a model as I have a niece and her friends who are willing to pose for a small fee. This is just a thought right now.
I'll definately know more after meeting him tonight!!
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