2500 miles (from Paris to Pasadena), 500 lbs of luggage, 150 paintings in 4 days, 148 bottles of water, the 72nd Artists Helping Artists blog radio show, 60 rolls of Viva, 48 muffins, 30 artists, 24 lavender macadamia nut cookies, 15 bottles of wine, 4 hours of sleep, 3 coffee cakes, 2 Dogs, and 1 angry Eddie left in Paris.
Whewww! What was I thinkin'??????
But then the girls came bearing gifts and all was forgotten:))
"We Three Queens of ........."
Note: Box with bow contains bell used for herding cats , er I mean artists...
Artists love to talk shop!!
Nancy won the prize (a hug) for traveling from afar.....all the way from Singapore:))
My co-host (and amazing artist and dearest friend) for this workshop, artist Leslie Saeta doing her palette knife demo for the group!!
Me with an audience--(albeit a few hecklers in the bunch, sent there by Eddie no doubt.)
Paintings from Musical Easels:))
The Incredible Shrinking Workshop
This is what happens when you remember to take the group photo after the workshop is over---Eddie says this would have never happened if he had been in charge. ...
Lots of oohing and ahhing as the paintings are stacking up:)!!
and up
and up:)!!!
We even got "framed" with a visit from the King of Frame himself, Randy Higbee. Randy took orders for his famous floater frames and delivered finished frames the very next day. What a guy!!
Great food served up to "starving" artists:))
And two special evenings of relaxed conversation for the artists!
Workshops are rich and hold so much,
trying to capture it all with words and photos,
well,
as Eddie would say....
"May as well try and ...
Never mind, you really don't want to know what Eddie says:))
Thanks to Cherry, Susan, Lisa, JoAnn, Tina, Linda, Julie, Silvia, Julie, Kristy, Nancy,
Jean, Susan, Maria, Ann, Sharon, Karen, Kadija, Patricia, Gloria, Lynette, Marie, Fiddy, Paula, Denyse,
Emely, Annmarie, Nancy, Carol, and Jack
California 2011 Oil Painting Workshop was simply, as Eddie would say
(and every once in awhile we actually agree)
The Cat's Meow:))
If you would like to come paint with me, you can visit my workshop page to see what's coming up--Click Here!
