Joyce and Don Nagel Class

Took a wonderful pastel class today given at All About Art Club at Sun City Hilton Head. Joyce and Don Nagel are well known professional pastel artist who give workshops in Hilton Head and other areas. They have a very interesting technique that I was eager to learn. No paintings from the workshop today as we concentrated on thumbnails and value studies. Nice to know that I am not the only teacher would uses these excellent aids for beginning a painting and enhancing the painting experience. Learned a few new things and had a great revisit of things I thought I was doing but found out I was taking a few too many short cuts.

Getting started again

I am finally back in South Carolina, in the Low Country. I just love the marshes and the wildlife here around Sun City Hilton Head. We are close to the May River. This is a painting that I started at a Demonstration that I gave in January for the All About Art Club at Sun City. I had a very appreciative audience of about 70 people. It was a lot of fun for me to share how to start a painting with so many people.
I then taught a small class in February and will be teaching another class in acrylic landscape painting in March. For those of you in Sun City please check the board in the art room to sign up. What a wonder bunch of people here in Sun City. I love almost every minute.