I have been taking classes from a great teacher in Solana Beach for the last few months. I have learned so much and feel like i am making some progress with my painting. As a change of pace, the first week of January, I decided to take a 5-day workshop in Palm Springs from a wild and crazy guy named Bob Burridge - talk about loose! The class was about abstracting the figure and it was taught in acrylic - a medium that I haven't used in years. The class was really fun but really "outside the box" for me! I tried to be abstract in my thinking and painting - really I tried! And even though I didn't feel like I had great success with my painting during the workshop, I found it fun to work with acrylics - like playing! I feel more "serious" when I paint in oil -- I want to produce a good painting. So, when I got home from the workshop, I put gesso on the covers of all my sketchbooks and proceeded to paint faces on all of them. They are silly and fun. That is the beauty of acrylic - it dries right away. It is also the thing that I don't like about acrylics. I am attaching a couple photos of the sketchbook covers. So, if I feel i am tightening up, I just pull out that acrylic and "play"!
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