"For most of us the problem isn't that we aim too high and fail- it's just the opposite- we aim too low and succeed."
-Sir. Ken Robinson

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Day Thirteen, Antigua (Continued)

My painting, acrylic and oils 
At 2:30pm Gloria and I started our second painting class. We worked on the paintings we had started the week before, but this week we started with oil paint. We focused on the techniques Walter showed us with not just a paint brush on the buildings, but with palette knives in the foliage. This weeks class was much less formal and Walter is becoming more of a friend than a teacher. He is a practicing artist renting out time at the gallery and painting is his real passion. We spent much of our time together laughing and joking, translating and getting lost in translation. Several of the other students at Casa want to stop by next week to meet Walter and watch us paint maybe even take classes themselves!
We focused on doing simple first layers with the oils, and testing how to use the tools we have available for painting with oils.
After our session ended, Gloria and I both felt rejuvenated and these sessions are really inspiring us both to do more artwork while we are here.


Painting passionately!

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