Yesterday I starting studing with my friend, Linda Vance. Almost 25 years ago, she and I shared a teaching studio. She taught oils and acrylics and I taught watercolor and drawing. Well, after years of doing design and not painting, I wanted to really get back to basics and paint again. . . The painting here was one that I did recently and gave to Jerry and Joy for their 27th anniversary - I liked it and was encouraged to think that there was still some gray matter in the old head. . . well, yesterday was quiet revealing!!! I felt like an infant trying to figure out what a spoon was ~ I have never worked so hard and accomplished so little in the space of 3 hours! I learned one very important thing about myself: I am a lifetime student, I have not arrived! There's so much more to learn and I WILL LEARN AGAIN~ I'm using a study of a young child standing in her nightgown, plucking petals from a longstemmed rose - love the subject! Just the struggle of remembering how many heads in a body and how does the foot relate to the size of the head and how do you measure the width of the hand as to the distance between the chin and the eyebrow and so on and so!!! I was so tired when I pulled out of her parking area - the temp was in the 90's and Suzy needed water and my car needed gas - I thought I'd never get to a gas station, but I did and we finally got home around 1:30 where there was plenty of water and some spaghetti leftovers and a soft chair to sink into and not think about my inability to perform according to my preconceived notions about my ability as an artist - One thing I know ~ in watercolor there is magic, in oil there is no magic, just hard work and a lot of math~ I will conquer this giant! pauletteWednesday, June 23, 2010
Art Class ~ a student again
Yesterday I starting studing with my friend, Linda Vance. Almost 25 years ago, she and I shared a teaching studio. She taught oils and acrylics and I taught watercolor and drawing. Well, after years of doing design and not painting, I wanted to really get back to basics and paint again. . . The painting here was one that I did recently and gave to Jerry and Joy for their 27th anniversary - I liked it and was encouraged to think that there was still some gray matter in the old head. . . well, yesterday was quiet revealing!!! I felt like an infant trying to figure out what a spoon was ~ I have never worked so hard and accomplished so little in the space of 3 hours! I learned one very important thing about myself: I am a lifetime student, I have not arrived! There's so much more to learn and I WILL LEARN AGAIN~ I'm using a study of a young child standing in her nightgown, plucking petals from a longstemmed rose - love the subject! Just the struggle of remembering how many heads in a body and how does the foot relate to the size of the head and how do you measure the width of the hand as to the distance between the chin and the eyebrow and so on and so!!! I was so tired when I pulled out of her parking area - the temp was in the 90's and Suzy needed water and my car needed gas - I thought I'd never get to a gas station, but I did and we finally got home around 1:30 where there was plenty of water and some spaghetti leftovers and a soft chair to sink into and not think about my inability to perform according to my preconceived notions about my ability as an artist - One thing I know ~ in watercolor there is magic, in oil there is no magic, just hard work and a lot of math~ I will conquer this giant! paulette
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You CAN do this, Paulette!!!! I've never known you not to succeed in ANY challenge you've attempted!!!! I love, love, love that picture....especially that familiar signature in the lower right corner!!!
ReplyDeleteI love that you have a teachable spirit, one of the finest qualities that you have and pass on. I cannot wait to see the result of the lesson. You inspire me to pick up a brush too.
ReplyDeleteOh how I envy those who can pick up a brush and magic appears!!! Me, I pick up a brush and the canvas says"stop stop" "you are ruining me"!!!
ReplyDeleteI love that you are being challenged. That is wonderful for the gray matter!!!Makes new synapses!!!
Gimmee those synapes! You must remember that there are different ways to paint - you paint gardens and they are beautiful. . . you did pretty good with that cake, at least it made it to your mouth
ReplyDeletevia the hands!!!! one of my friends ask me"where is your highchair!" lol...
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ReplyDeleteYour creating art that will be viewed, loved, passed on, admired, cherished, hung in coffee houses, and bragged about for generations to come.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little I would tell my friends in that bragging childish voice, "well my Papa is a preacher and my Gammy is an artist!"
I always had the coolest ones.
-Trey
Hey Paulette,
ReplyDeleteI'm readling Paulette's Place for the first time. How joyous it is to read about my forever friend and walk with you through this adventure. You will conquer Paulette, and I want a painting when you do. Love ya, Judy : )