Friday Workshop

Last Friday I taught a one day workshop at the Winslow Arts Center on Bainbridge Island.  It was so much fun.  There were some really great painters there, and everyone stepped out of their comfort zone.  Here are photos of a few of the participants work.  I will be teaching another workshop there on October 6th and 7th.

Off to Winslow

In Quiet Water 18" x 14" acrylic on masonite

   This Painting was the product of my stay on Bainbridge Island in August  where I taught a three day plein air workshop.  I go there again tomorrow to teach another workshop.  It's been a busy month with my classes starting, exhibitions going up and others coming down, meetings (blah...blah...blah..).  My commute time from my home on a little island is about an hour and a half each way.  Sometimes I feel like I'm just rushing from one minute to the next.
     Then there's painting.  It seems to suspend time...or better, time seems to stretch sideways.  And there is the added benefit of slowing down, standing for hours very quietly in front of something that inspires me...trying to observe every nuance.  The act of painting is very personal to me and frames everything else with meaning and purpose.

Recent Demonstration

Daily Ritual 12" x 16" acrylic

Ruins in the Poppies  24" x 30" acrylic on masonite

  On Labor day I did two demonstrations at Daniel Smith art materials in Seattle.  Each of these demos was about an hour and a half long.  I finished the pieces at home, and promised those brave souls who  watched the demonstrations that I would post the completed paintings.  Here they are in this form....I may still do some tweeking.  I used plein air paintings I did in Tuscany this spring as the color inspiration, and photographs I took for the composition.