My Barn Burned Down

Last night I was browsing various artists websites and found Jeanne Lafferty (The Laughingstock of Lourdes). She has great fun making art and had me laughing out loud. One of her blogposts said “I’m afraid of the grapes…” and I realized that I had set aside a project because I was afraid of the grapes…and the bird..and the whole thing. I signed up for an interactive class with Mary Kingslan working with Genesis Heat Set Oils and did step one then have ignored it for six weeks. The interactive class ended, and fortunately they allow the participants to get a DVD of the classes missed. I watched them last night and got remotivated, due to the fact that Mary’s teaching style is very clear and very ‘no big deal’: “If your strawberry faces the other direction, that’s fine, it’s your painting”. In Jeanne’s blog she states that she set up her blog to keep her working and that’s how I’m going to use this blog, too. So here is step one that I have done, followed by the goal of the finished painting I’m learning to paint:

Project: step one background and table

Project Goal: to look like this

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