Day 2 with Stephanie Lee, a palette knife and a wonderful class room. To me being in the class room was my favorite part huge paint covered tables, tall windows with old rippled glass the smell of paint and turpentine. We were unable to use a brush, pencil, chalk or any other supply except the palette knife until 1 hour before the class was over. It was a challenge. I glued prints of photographs I had taken and painted over them. The fun part was scrapping the paint off revealing the image below. I enjoyed taking a razor blade and sand paper to my painting once it was dry and scrubbing the surface, I liked how the texture changed and how the images changed. This class was very difficult for me I am not a painter I just smeared paint on the canvas and moved it around. I don't know how often I'll use a palette knife in the future but I enjoyed the day with Stephanie and consider it a good learning experience.
I would love to see what you did - it sounds pretty good with all that scraping and scratching! Sounds like you are stretching your horizons, working outside your comfort zone - all good things. And just being able to enjoy the company of so many creative people must have been marvellous!
ReplyDeleteI would love to see what you made too! The class sounds fabulous - can't paint, so slapping paint about with a palette knife would be great for me!
ReplyDeleteyahoo....i cannot wait to see your new work...and ofcourse your photos are stellar! are we getting together on friday...it has been a roller coaster here...blah!
ReplyDeleteloving you muchly
i so wish I had taken this class! I think stephanie is wonderful and I would love to play like that! had good classes too, but you know how it is when you see what other people did, you want to do that too!! : )
ReplyDeletei bet stephanie lee was sooooo awesome. how fun. what a challenge to only use a knife...that would be VERY hard for me. but YOU DID IT!
ReplyDeleteyippy for you!
i, too, can;t wait until you share what you created.
happy wednesday dear.
c
this class sounds just heavenly, frees up your creative spirit and makes you think on a completely different level!
ReplyDeleteYou know, I think that's why I love doing painting backgrounds so much. It's just about texture and color and the feel of it all. It sounds like a great class just to try something different!! So glad you had such a great time! I forgot to say how much I love that photo of you, Julie and your aunt - such beautiful blue eyes all of you have!! Love, Silke
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