Today I taught my first ever painting workshop! I had so much fun! I hope my participants enjoyed it as much as I did. We started by discussing values and creating form, did a grisaille, an underpainting in earth tones, applying the colour overtop. We were using transparent acrylic colour, working on creating luminosity in the fruits. We then went on to painting a small still life set up following the steps we had learned. One of my participants, who was very talented, told me at the end of the day she is 90 years old! I thought she was at least 15 years younger! I hope that when I'm 90 I'm still busy learning and honing my painting skills. Having her in my class made my day. :-)
On my last post where I changed the background of my painting, after the recommendation of my painting buddy Virginia Floyd. I thanked her and linked to her website, but then I changed the font and didn't realize that the link was broken, so here is the link to
Virginia's blog.
Still Life Painting Workshop
Il doit être bon de partager ton atelier... Il doit beaucoup y avoir à apprendre... et j'en ai besoin.
ReplyDeleteC'est formidable de participer à un cours de peinture à l'âge de cette dame, je la félicite... mais elle ne se trompait pas en s'inscrivant chez toi...
Gros bisous et un grand merci pour ton si gentil commentaire.
Congrats Claire. It sounds like lots of fun.
ReplyDeleteCongrats.. that is super wonderful! Looks like a fabulous event!
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Congratulations Claire!
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Congratulations, I'm sure there will be many more to come:)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Claire on your first workshop!! I wish I was close enough to you to join! Looks wonderful!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your first workshop! I think you would be an awesome instructor!
ReplyDeleteThank you everyone for all of your kind wishes! I really appreciate my fellow artists supporting my first step into instructing. It really means a lot to me.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your workshop! It's been fun to catch up with your blog . . . love the photos of the grafitti train cars in the forest. Wow! Such beautiful work on them. Must be hard to concentrate on painting when watching out for cougars and bears, but I'm so glad you still have them!
ReplyDeleteGreat still lifes. The class sounds great. Love the graffiti train designs.
ReplyDeleteThank you Lorraine and Patty, I really enjoyed teaching the class, and I loved the train art! Glad you enjoyed seeing the images.
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful. Hope you will continue teaching.
ReplyDeleteHow exciting is that?!! 90 years old, wow. I keep hearing stories of women that are 90+ really enjoying their lives. They are setting the bar high for those of us who follow.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on teaching your first class. You have done a beautiful and exciting set-up for them. So many times, I see a set up just thrown together, so it is a pleasure to see one that obviously has a lot of thought behind it.