I can still recall my excitement every year when school would start and I would get a new box of crayons. I'd immediately look for the periwinkle crayon, it was always my favorite.
I also loved adding water to that new prang set but painting with that terrible square brush wasn't all that easy. The hairs came off in my paintings, the paper was newsprint and no one showed me how to actually use the watercolors.
Years later during a visit with my sister and brother they introduced me to watercolor. They helped me select some brushes, paint and paper. My sister tried to show me how to use salt with great enthusiasm but it took years for me to get how to do that.
You will find that when you paint, you go into a space that's like
meditation. My job at the time was very stressful, left brained, lots of numbers and equations. The relief I felt
when I was splashing watercolor was addictive.
I bought a lot of paint, paper and books. Oh my, the books I bought! I traveled for work and my treat for being away from my family was to go to an art store and purchase a new book. On the flight home I'd read it cover to cover. I took a few classes.
While I worked I developed training classes for underwriters. It's a very technical, dry subject but I found that I loved teaching.
Now I'm retired and I can use that experience to teach painting. How lucky am I that I get to enjoy introducing people to the creative process.
Everyone says the same things, "I can't draw, I don't have an artistic gene in my body" whatever that is. Don't worry, I can teach you how to use paint. If you show up (that means keep painting, drawing etc) you'll get there. Everyone does.
We all start out loving to paint and draw. Somewhere along the way, someone says something critical about what we've done and we stop playing with art supplies. It's my mission to bring as many people as possible back to that child like joy.
I'd like nothing more than to have you join us.
I also loved adding water to that new prang set but painting with that terrible square brush wasn't all that easy. The hairs came off in my paintings, the paper was newsprint and no one showed me how to actually use the watercolors.
Years later during a visit with my sister and brother they introduced me to watercolor. They helped me select some brushes, paint and paper. My sister tried to show me how to use salt with great enthusiasm but it took years for me to get how to do that.
You will find that when you paint, you go into a space that's like
meditation. My job at the time was very stressful, left brained, lots of numbers and equations. The relief I felt
when I was splashing watercolor was addictive.
I bought a lot of paint, paper and books. Oh my, the books I bought! I traveled for work and my treat for being away from my family was to go to an art store and purchase a new book. On the flight home I'd read it cover to cover. I took a few classes.
While I worked I developed training classes for underwriters. It's a very technical, dry subject but I found that I loved teaching.
Now I'm retired and I can use that experience to teach painting. How lucky am I that I get to enjoy introducing people to the creative process.
Everyone says the same things, "I can't draw, I don't have an artistic gene in my body" whatever that is. Don't worry, I can teach you how to use paint. If you show up (that means keep painting, drawing etc) you'll get there. Everyone does.
We all start out loving to paint and draw. Somewhere along the way, someone says something critical about what we've done and we stop playing with art supplies. It's my mission to bring as many people as possible back to that child like joy.
I'd like nothing more than to have you join us.