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We had a fun class today working on our collage composition and technique. Here's a snapshot showing the the beginning of my project on the left. Obviously it has some work to do to finish it but it's fun stuff. There's no end to it really - if you "take it to a train wreck" you can always gesso over it and begin again with what you learned from the "failure" to guide you.

I had an added surprise today - Ken Lampard brought Lindsey, Sheila, and I a copy of the creativity workshop write-up from October 2008. We did the workshop at my house back in August and I had forgotten about it. Turns out they used the photo I sent them and a description of our group's project. Click here to see the article full-screen. Enjoy!

Creativity Workshop - Speedy Delivery

Ken Lampard, Sheila Schaetzle, Lindsey Stead, and I met here yesterday to execute our Speedy Delivery paintings. So, here are a few pictures of our day and the resulting paintings:
Lindsey planned, sketched, and painted Cherry in 1 hour. Ken, Sheila, and I had our paintings planned before arriving. We took a few minutes to explain our plans to each other (very helpful). Then at 2pm, we began painting and we cut it off at 3. There were a few shadows and minor things to do (which was okay in the rules - lol). We cleaned up, untaped our paintings and took these photos. I think it's an impressive 4 paintings considering the 1 hour painting rule.
Sheila had a lovely, atmospheric evening seaside painting. Ken chose a lake scape, I chose a backyard bench with a croquet game in progress on the lawn . ALL of us painted much faster than we usually do. This resulted in more wet in wet, puddling, etc.
Although we all began very wet we all found it difficult to maintain that through the hour of painting. This is something that would be worthwhile to do again.
It was fun! I'll submit this to Watercolor Magic for inclusion in their feedback about the event.

The four of us with our "1 hour wonders".
Ken and Sheila discussing the minor details at the end.

Lindsey with her Cherry Painting - lovely!