From Friday Class to Filoli

This is the image we're going to paint starting this Friday - October 21st!

I'm very excited to work on this and we are not using any masking fluid and I'll be darned if I can print out an image where the colors are true to what I see on my screen! Very frustrating..... Anyway this image comes from the Filoli Gardens.

Here's the image from the Friday Design Wall showing the little gecko that everyone finished. Cute lil' bugger.

Fran Giannattasio is proudly showing her landscape that we painted together this past winter. This image was taken January of this year. I love painting landscapes and this one was challenging for many because of the naked valley oak tree. If you paint what you see vs. what you know - you will have a better finished image and a better time painting. Great job Fran.....

On my way in to instruct the workshop at Filoli, I get in a little early to take pictures of what surprises will greet me.... loved taking this shot of a buck showing off his rack in the clearing... took my breath away, and he stayed there for awhile letting me take picture after picture!

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Finished Framed and Fabulous & More...

Here's a couple students showing their finished Friday class paintings

Here's Barbara Todd showing off her "Eppi" painting. This was an image of a white flower utilizing all kinds of colors making the shadows. The dark colors in the background go from deep blues to deep greens and purples. Way to go Barbara!

Here's a picture of Luci Wilkins with her finished image from Fridays Class of a water lily and dragonfly. This is an image that I found while on my first trip to Houston, Texas - actually the Woodlands.... Luci challenged herself by painting the unfurled lily pad that was in the reference photo, I myself edited it out. Good job, good eye and this will make a great gift! Someone close to Luci is getting this as a gift.

FRIDAY CLASS DESIGN WALL PHOTOS

Here's the steps we took to get there....

A little Gecko from the Art2Art workshop in Rockwall, Texas! This little fella fell from the ceiling in our workshop into someones paint palette! It was less than and inch and a half long! Poor thing was so scared when I took the closeup photos - very memorable... Here's the current steps we took last Friday.

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