One extra session later, these cheerful and hard-working girls completed their paintings. I am very happy with their ability to develop an idea and see it through to the finished work. Both Sam and Sabrina tried new techniques and found great success in carrying off what they sought to acheive. I like watching them make decisions about how closely to follow their reference photos while maintaining their ideas about what made each piece as fun as it is. I often felt more like a jester rather than a teacher encouraging one of them to go ahead and mess up the canvas. As Scott likes to point out, I tell them every week that the hour and half with them is my favorite time of the week. Now that these two have completed their paintings I am missing my weekly classes with the kids. The studio is completely crowded with painting projects and display stuff for the Bentonville Art Walk. My next class will be taught at Eureka Springs School of the Arts in June. That is a polymer clay class for adults which is inspiring and fun for people with no art experience as well as for artists seeking to stretch themselves by playing with a new medium. I will also have a painting class for 12-17 year olds at ESSA in July. The next studio workshop will be expressive painting for women and I will announce the schedule for that soon.
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