More fun at my Lexington workshop with our boat show. I was looking for a way of getting artists to loosen up and detach from the outcome of their painting--essentially to get back to the
joy of painting. Then I came across
Leslie Saeta's wonderful painting blog and her 27 sailboat paintings. And the idea was hatched. We played musical easels, taking turns working at each easel, for about 4 minutes at a time (long enough to listen to the Christopher Cross "Sailing" CD play.....) at which time I would holler "next", and everyone moved to the easel next to them. What resulted were the wonderful little pieces you see above--completed in about 35 minutes, which included scurrying from easel to easel. It turned out to be lots of fun and a great exercise for everyone in remembering the joy of painting and a reminder you don't
have to have a huge block of time to paint--the important thing is to paint, and often.
More fun at my Lexington workshop with our boat show. I was looking for a way of getting artists to loosen up and detach from the outcome of their painting--essentially to get back to the joy of painting. Then I came across Leslie Saeta's wonderful painting blog and her 27 sailboat paintings. And the idea was hatched. We played musical easels, taking turns working at each easel, for about 4 minutes at a time (long enough to listen to the Christopher Cross "Sailing" CD play.....) at which time I would holler "next", and everyone moved to the easel next to them. What resulted were the wonderful little pieces you see above--completed in about 35 minutes, which included scurrying from easel to easel. It turned out to be lots of fun and a great exercise for everyone in remembering the joy of painting and a reminder you don't have to have a huge block of time to paint--the important thing is to paint, and often.
