It's going to be hot this week.

I edited these photos and am so very impressed with the work from last week. 

Let's start with Susan because her painting is beautiful and has the typical texture that she always builds up.
And please click on these images to see more detail- it's worth it!

The photo doesn't show it but we are starting to work on palette knife techniques that make water look believable. 

By the way, we will be at Susan's this week and it might be HOT. 

I'll bring still life material and will be glad to sign you up for the fast painting exercise that I'm starting to think of 'bootcamp.'

Look at Jan's from last week. It's fabulous. She did this one in less than an hour.

Dolly started on two glaze paintings that will take a number of weeks to complete. I think it is very interesting to see the progress as she applies the opaque lights onto layers of transparent paint. And I'm just dying because one of the paintings is gorgeous but is on a flimsy surface...rggggggggh.

and Joyce had this really interesting experience with the light in Amalia's courtyard. The sun came around and lit her painting through the trees in the exact pattern as she saw in real life. Does that make sense. We photographed these two images.

Then she had to translate that into her painting.

and she used the palette knife to get the water.

The best application of our class is to apply what we are doing on Thursday to work that happens during the week. I know I repeat myself but if you can hear the critiques that go on during our class when you get into trouble with a painting you will know what to do.

 Cathy Baca did this at home and I am amazed at her understanding of space and scale.

....and now to be really impressesd look at Rita's work from last week. One might want to take these for granted because she does then with such seeming ease. I'm not sure.... I think she is very serious and they require experience and skill.

and to finish with Amalia's work in progress. No problems at all here - great handling of complex values.

I'm laughing at your son's description of the Wyoming polar bear ( it's a grizzly).

This is also a good sixed painting...24" x 24" I think.

we spoke about reproducing some of these images for  your personal use ie, note cards, stationary etc. I'm bringing the good camera to take pictures, so just bring the paintings that you might want to use.