Updates from Terri on Her Art Journey
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After procrastinating for months, I finally got back to painting last week. It’s the seascape I’ll be teaching my students to paint during the class at City Lights Art Gallery that’s been rescheduled for Wednesday, May 22.
It’s been so long since I last painted, it was a struggle for me to finish this little painting in two hours. But it certainly felt good to be back at the easel. My challenge now is to get my demonstration down to an hour so that the class doesn’t go too long. I hope to keep the class to no longer than three hours, which should give me enough time to go over some of the fundamentals of acrylic painting before we actually paint this scene together. As of this writing, I still have two spots left in the tiny classroom at the gallery. Perhaps I’ll pick up a couple more students over the Mothers Day weekend, when I’ll be working at City Lights. In the meantime, I plan to paint this little gem another four or five times before my class so that I’ll be prepared to teach it. I had to reschedule this class once already after my recent injury, and I don’t want to put it off again because I’m out of practice. It’s actually a bit of a miracle that I’m able to teach at all this soon after my elbow surgery. Just two months ago today, I fell on my face, fractured my left elbow, broke a bone on my forearm and landed in the hospital. The surgeon says I’ve healed so miraculously quickly because I’m healthy and never smoked. Truly I believe that God’s healing power had more to do with it because the Lord does not want me to waste my time and “gifts” lying around the house! He wants me back at it!
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AuthorTerri Thompson is a journalist-turned-visual artist, who is on an "art journey" and exploring how to tell her stories through her watercolor and acrylic paintings and photographs. Categories |