What a wild week. Twelve women artists came together to take my Abstracted Play in Oil and Cold Wax workshop at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. Some had taken my class previously, a few had learned from other instructors, and quite a few had never worked with oil paint or cold wax, and one was new to painting. There was some gnashing of teeth, lots of laughter, a little whining, a smidgeon of frustration, and in the end, happiness with their success and the beauty of their pieces.
I did demos every morning and afternoon . . .
The women then worked on their own pieces, working in multiples so they had lots of pieces to work on at various stages of the process.
One thing I loved seeing was the camaraderie of how the women supported each other and worked together.
I gave my Artist Talk on Saturday after lunch (they all showed up for my talk, although this photo makes it look like no one did!).
On our last day, we worked in the morning and then in the afternoon cleaned up our supplies, spread out our body of work, and did a walkabout, sharing the highlights of the week.
Here is an assortment of the work created during the week, in no particular order, some on boards, some on Arches Oil Paper, some large and some small:
It was a really fun week.
PS This was the second time I got to teach at Sitka this summer. In June, there was an opening and I was able to slip in a bonus version of this workshop, which I blogged about earlier.