Friday ended up being a crazy busy day.  It was one of those days when I was just a little bit behind from the moment my feet hit the floor.  I finished a business call and checked the time…”Oh my goodness!  It’s 1:45 and my painting class is in 15 minutes!”  I rushed to get set up, refill my water bottle, and grab a quick snack since I had completely missed lunch.  I turned my computer on just in time to start the live class.  I pressed the “Go Live” button as usual and received an error that the camera was not compatible.  This is the same camera on the same computer I’ve been using each week!  Gah!   After several failed attempts, I switched over to my phone.  So, the first few minutes on the Facebook Live recording are me getting the tripod set up, getting my palette, and putting

Friday, we did another live painting class!  In that session, we focused on still life painting and painted a Barlett pear with some leaves.  When I first started painting, I wasn’t interested in the still life genre at all, but after painting 100 landscapes off of pictures, I saw some of the issues of not painting from life.  Since still life is the easiest thing to set up and have readily on hand as a “model”, I decided to paint 100 still lifes.  I saw myself grow so much as an artist during that time.  It was overwhelming at first, trying to paint from a three-dimensional perspective instead of a flat image, but my eye was better trained through the process and I’ve grown to really enjoy painting still lifes. We started the class with an exercise – a 10-minute pear.  I could almost feel the panic when I said