First Video of My Watercolor Painting Process

Sped up 20 times!  

With special thanks to Google Images for the reference photo 

and 

Coldplay for the “Adventures of a Lifetime” clip

This little video actually took about 15 minutes to shoot. (Then about 5 hours to edit, whew!)  I created the very professional set up of two stacks of encyclopedias on each side of the painting stage  with two thin boards crossing them that my iPhone was taped on.  

It was actually a teacher demonstration example for my Longwood education majors in my Arts Integration class.  The assignment was to select a SOL (Virginia Standard Of Learning) and make a video that teaches the concept to the age group you would like to teach. You can view their movies here, the films are so cute and several students said it was the most fun they had ever had with a school project.  

I know that mine was!

New Classical School and Work

Have made a new discovery down on lower Manhattan...

even made a new friend. (Who looks like he is trying to make his escape...sorry David)

It is the New York Academy of Art !  Just took an amazing workshop by former medical illustrator and NYAA professor, Roberto Osti.

(forgive the poor photo quality- taken off my phone in my tiny walk up apartment)

Don't these look like notes from a med student?

I felt like I was in med school for a bit...the information was coming so fast!  

I now completely get the old joke about doctors' sloppy handwriting!

But studying that and after some gesture warm ups...

enabled me to do this...

and this....

Actually Mr Osti attended medical school while training as a medical illustrator and it definitely showed in his approach and work!  

NYAA is a definite gem for those who want to learn how to draw paint and sculpt in the classical tradition!

Art Student League Work and Life in NYC

So it really happened, bought the proverbial "one way ticket" to the big apple...

Now living in a tiny little walk up above tourist haven...

See?  Here is the bus to prove it!

Here is my tiny studio (aka coffee table) at my home for the month...

it's about 6 inches from my bed, 50 inches from my office and a whooping 90 inches from the dining room. (I think you get the point...it is tiny)

 Doing all this so I can take classes here...

On the Easel and Heading to NYC

Hello it’s been a long time!  This teaching parenting thing is always such a time sucker...but in a good way!

Here is what has been on the easel these last few days...

Over My Head

Watercolor on Arches

11”x14”

Shimmering River

Watercolor on Arches

11”x14”

Oh and of course the latest color chart...(as part of my 2018 studio challenge goal to clarify my palette)

But now the next big adventure this summer is my extended field trip to ...

 the big apple to take classes at...

 the Art Student League!  

This is how excited I am! (And how I looked several decades ago....)

will not wait 6 months to post about this!!