[Susan Abston Wiley, Artist] I Know I Can Move This, I Just Know I Can

[Susan Abston Wiley]

Many of you know of Carol Marine, the Bastrop artist whose home burned in the terrible fires last summer, and who subsequently moved with her husband and son to Oregon, where it is green and rains a lot!  She still does her workshops all over the U.S., luckily for me.  I took one of Carol's fantastic workshops a couple of weeks ago, and have been trying to find time and sunny days to photograph the results to show you.  This was the first painting I did, the first day, and I probably like it the best because it has an animal in it.  The little ebony elephant has been a studio friend for years, and I'm happy to have finally painted it.  Carol let us pick our set-up, whatever we wanted, no exercise other than just flexing rusty (in my case) painting muscles.  The painting is on 1/8-inch Ampersand board, a new surface for me.

I had signed up for this workshop more than a year in advance after eyeballing her workshops for two years.  It was definitely worth the wait!  Carol is fun, hugely talented, and very sharing with her knowledge and experience.  I gained a lot of tips that I can apply painting in either oil or pastel.  Best of all, it was so much fun with her that I got kick-started back into painting.  Yippee!

I'll post more of the results of our exercises soon.  She was not nearly as lenient after the first day, and I have the painting mishaps to prove it!  :-)  Stay tuned...

Oil, 6x6

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Posted By Susan Abston Wiley to Susan Abston Wiley, Artist at 3/30/2012 05:51:00 PM