Filoli Workshop

This is how the day starts off while conducting a workshop at Filoli. The deer greet you as you drive into the center. What a way to start the day!

Oh my deer!

Here is a group shot of the folks on my left, they're busy working away painting wet onto wet, focusing their attention on the paint and water ratio. Such concentration.

Here's the other side of the room, filled with students concentrating on their water and paint ratio, and getting ready to move the paper around to let gravity move the color and NOT make a huge mess.

This is a group shot from the back of the room showing the workstations everyone shares and how they all work together to get their assignments and paintings done.

This is how to end the day at the Filoli Center. The deer greet you as you arrive and they are still busy munching the grasses as you leave.

the Los Altos Art Club

I worked as a watercolor presenter for the Los Altos Art Club this past Monday evening.
There was a gentleman in the front filming the whole time I was demo-ing. I explained and painted my approach with watercolor working on crab apple blossoms and the steps it takes to get to a finished painting. This group asked a lot of great questions, and hopefully I answered them all well, as I had a ball. Please visit http://www.losaltosartclub.org/ to view their website. I was so excited to meet their Artist of the year Jan Spangler, she creates incredible portraits of people, so real you could reach out and touch them. She is now working in watercolor and I saw her images of florals and landscapes. Feel free to visit her website http://www.janspanglerfineart.com/ let her know what you think. Regarding the photo below, I was explaining a large wash that I produced on a koi painting and that is where some of the folks are looking.


They have a monthly member show, and the works were on display in the back to my right. Different media, pastels, acrylic and watercolors. You can see me way in the back under the mirror.

Here's a picture that the Fabulous and Fierce Joyce Faulknor took while I was demonstrating for the Los Altos Art Club. The overhead mirror is great.

Steps to finishing the rose image

Here's the image I took from the last day of class, and the following images are how we got to this point.
This is an image I took from my Grandma's garden. This is a rose she started as a slip, which she has taken with here wherever she has lived. It originally came from a rose from her father's garden. I shot this image with my brand new high falutin macro lens, back in 2001.
I hope you enjoy the steps to this image. I will work on this some more to get a better finish.