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Thanks, Marina, John, Mischa and Dianne-
John, I'll look forward to meet you at that lecture. Marvin's lectures are excellent. He presents his information logically, in a way that is good for students from beginning to advanced. Right after I attended his "Met" lecture two years ago, I started putting the visual principles he taught into practice, starting with my drawing of ""Bea" that I posted on this forum. It won first place and best of show in two separate competitions. Yes, I had to apply the things he taught, but his lecture opened my eyes to things I had never considered.
Mischa, I never thought about bringing a tape recorder. I would think that if someone did this, it would have to be a video recorder, because visuals are so important. Plus, the video would be a comedy show, I think, because Marvin is very funny and at this workshop at least he has fellow comedians to egg him on. Our model keeps cracking up laughing.
Marina, Marvin has his class do two days of wash-ins, one per day. We start at 9:30 and go to 4:30, with time for small breaks for the models to stretch, plus a lunch hour.
We were told that our second wash-in would be an improvement over the first, as we got a better handle on our medium and got to know our model's face better. I'm posting my wash-in number two.
Tomorrow, Marvin will be demonstrating his painting technique using his palette based on Paxton's. The palette has already been shown and discussed on this forum before, so I won't repeat that info, but I will put in my two cents: it is a very logical system, and could be used as a base and adapted upon easily.
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