 Timbits & Sawdust. Yum! This is your last chance to sign up for my 3-day Fearless Abstract Painting Boot Camp on August 6 - 8. Learn my most sought after Fearless Abstract Painting techniques: 1. Abstracting Nature 2. Using metallic paints, powders & gold leaf 3. Distressing the canvas to create vintage looking pieces PLUS Texture building, creating depth using washes & glazes, composition, critiquing & creating work that is unique as your are. For more information & to register: Swinton's Art Supply     Thank you for sharing your laughter, sadness, tears, stories, memories, hopes, dreams, fears, successes, suggestions, frustrations, accomplishments, supplies, music and dance moves with me during this year's Summer Series. As I said to Series coordinator when she asked me to come back next summer: "It will be my pleasure. I will keep coming back as long as people want to take my classes."  It's one thing to do the work. It's an entirely different thing to put your painting up for display and public consumption. I am so proud of how fantastic my students did tonight. They worked so hard. Tonight we had a chance to celebrate our achievements.   Day 4 of 5 of Summer Series at Red Deer College, Alberta.           Critiquing, composition, varnishing, signing your work and prepping for the student show case. XO   I still can't believe this is for real. Who would have thought that a painting technique I created in my parent's basement that includes no brushes, no easels, no palettes, no colour wheel and no preconceived ideas would have me teaching amongst a roster of internationally acclaimed instructors? WOW. If you don't take that first step towards making your dreams a reality, how will you ever know what you're capable of?       Feeling blessed.    What is the difference between the Fearless Boot Camp in August & the Acrylic Fusion Workshop in September?  I've always chosen not to have a painting in front of my classroom for my students to copy for one simple reason: I am much more interested in seeing what you can create rather than how well you can copy. It takes guts, I know. But I believe in you. I believe in the power of uninhibited creativity. I believe the process evolves into ideas. Well done boys and girls! It was a pleasure to meet all of you. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do what I love.  Eight years ago I walked out of my corporate office job with only $600 in my bank account. I had no business plan, no art degree or connections. I didn't even have a car or a home of my own. Despite all of that, becoming an artist was still the best decision I ever made. Sometimes our dreams don't make any sense. That doesn't mean they aren't right.  Wether it's a textured roller, semi-precious stones or a DIY drying rack, my students are constantly coming up with good ideas. Do you have any great ideas you would like to share? |
