We had great fun during our weekly 2-hour classes this summer. Laural and Marilyn, recently joined by Pat and Heather, have been wonderful students—enthusiastic and eager to learn. Here are some highlights of what they’ve been up to.
Check out Laural and Pat working on grisaille technique in oils—a thin coat of oil paint is applied onto canvas and then the lights are wiped out with the canvas serving as white. It’s an old master technique, and the umber browns used in their pieces never fail to produce a calm, classic look. These pieces are fantastic!

This is Marilyn after completing her monochromatic piece; the assignment was to only use a color of her choice plus its shades (mixed with black), tints (mixed with white) and tones (mixed with gray)--it's amazing how little we need to create a beautiful piece!

Once done with monochromatic pieces, we’ve ventured into lots of fun with color—check out these three pieces in progress.

And here is what we call Laural inspired by Van Gogh painting—the strokes are bold and colorful!

This piece is of Laural’s lake by her house—I love her use of varied greens in this piece.

And this is my very talented 14-year old student who has been taking classes from me for almost a year. Here she is working on a chalk pastel landscape. Gorgeous! I told her mom that if it doesn’t make it on their wall, I want it in my house!

I am looking forward to more masterpieces!!!