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Denise and Debra,
Thanks for your kind words! After spending so much of my time alone in a studio, it is my extreme pleasure to have a class full of enthusiastic, witty, intelligent ARTISTS! I really miss you guys. The class was seething with ideas, revelations, inner confrontations, and just plain hard work.
Denise, I will be posting the painting of John after I have a chance to photograph it this weekend. We ran into a snag when I used an accelerant to decrease the drying time so I could finish John the next day. (Then decide to start a different painting).
When I got back to work on John's portrait later in the week, painting in the hour and a half before class started, the accelerant made the paint bone dry every morning. So in the morning I would completely repaint the canvas with nice juicy paint, and when it would just start to get interesting, I'd have to quit. (In my usual way of painting, the paint would be wet on the canvas for four or five days). On Saturday morning I finally had enough time to repaint and finish John up.
Debra went directly from my workshop to check out the Ateliers in the Minnesota and Ontario region, and settled on THE ATELIER, a wonderful school in Minneapolis created by Richard Lack alumni, Cid Wicker and Dale Redpath.
...and I am back in my studio, fighting the good fight.
Thanks for posting! And let me know how you are doing.
Peggy
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