The Lesson

This is my other painting from Abbey's wonderful workshop. I already miss everyone and beautiful Sedona. Praying that the Slide fire is soon extinguished. My heart goes out to all those affected by it.

Abbey Ryan Workshop

My friend, Kim, and I just returned home from spending nine, fun-filled days traveling and painting together. We attended Abbey Ryan's workshop in Sedona and met the most wonderful group of painters! Of course, painting with Abbey was the highlight of our trip. She is so incredibly talented, and I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to study with her again this year.

As always, she has left me feeling inspired. I'm looking forward to spending this week painting in my little studio here at home, so I had better get busy. I hope your week is off to a great beginning!

Happy painting!

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I am having so much fun at Abbey Ryan's Sedona workshop this week! Sedona is breathtaking. My workshop-mates are all talented and so friendly.  And what can I say about Abbey? I could sing her praises for hours, but in one word?  Simply put, she is amazing. I'm pretty sure she has magical powers.

I hope you're all having a great week!

Workshop Paintings

These are a couple of my paintings from Qiang Huang's workshop in April.  I meant to post them earlier, but in the craziness of the past few weeks, it slipped my mind.  The one above was done on our last class day, and I painted it with a palette knife.  I struggle with my work being too tight, and working with the palette knife seems to be a great way to free up my mind and my brushwork.

This was painted on our first class day.  During the morning, Qiang demonstrated his high key painting techniques, and in the afternoon, we spent several hours working with our own still life set-ups.  I learned so much from his lectures and demonstrations, but I gained a great deal of insight from his thoughtful critiques of my work.  I have only been fortunate enough to attend three workshops, but in all three, the critiques have proved so valuable to me.

This next week, I am headed to Austin for a portrait workshop with Fongwei Liu.  I am so excited!  After that, I hope to settle in for a summer of painting, but I'm very grateful for the opportunity to study with these two artists.  I will post more about Fongwei's workshop next week.

On a side note, I have 3 packages of 6x6 Ampersand panels that I would like to give away.  I love the quality of the panels, but I cannot seem to paint on such a smooth surface.  And I don't like to see things go to waste.  So, if you would like them, just let me know, and I will send them to you ASAP!  Thanks!

Happy (early) Mother's Day to all of you.  I hope you have the most wonderful of days!

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