Thanks, Arlene.

Thanks, Arlene for sharing your thoughts. They are an encouragement.

"The Art Process"Online pals, I am still trying to test how the blog works. So keep checking back. Post to Link after a comment

Arlene's Comment

I am so excited to work with Linda and my other class colleagues...LOVE this online collaboritive, VIRTUAL classroom! I am excited to finish Lesson 1 this weekend...and am going on a "field trip" with my scetch book to the Botanic Gardens on Monday (with my mom....whom has never had the opportunity to go, and loves gardening...so a DOUBLE treat for me, to be able to take her along). Thank you Linda for the wonderful format of learning and loving art and the art process. -Arlene 

MCA-Denver

We had a great visit to Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver yesterday. Light Leaks by Isca Greenfield- Sanders is worth the trip. This painter uses other peoples slides to create paintings. Her technique is sooo patient. She uses fluid watercolor on rice paper. Then protects with varnish and paints over with oil. She ends up with wonderful gesture and luminosity.
Rebecca DiDomenico's Pellucid is a cocoon of stallagmites and tites and magical wonders. She never disappoints. Christo and Jeanne-Claude "Over the River". Yes! Finally Robert Gober's slides of a changing painting. Edith said you could paint the same painting your entire life...Gober spent a year on the same board. He was referenced in NYTimes this a.m. in an article on Paul Thek. Also a great thought  from NYTimes on Monday...The Pace Gallery, "50 years at Pace" hung a Bonnard next to a Rothko. Wouldn't you love to lay eyes on that?

Then we went to see the Andy Berg paintings at Sellars Project at 44th and Tennyson. Good work.
And Jimmy Sellars and Jessica are just the best. If you are in the arts or appreciate the arts, you need to know these people at  servicesforartists.com

I am working on a drawing to assist me in visualizing adding 9 more students.

The Art Process, Online class

Yesterday, we began the local journey. Julie, Arlene, and Lynn spent time in the studio. We had such a rich discussion.
I am still a little high from sitting in a circle discussing art, then and now. Everyone really gets the point of "The Art Process", and is ready to go! Julie already did 2 lessons so we confabbed after class so as not affect anyone else's thinking about the exercises. 


We took a close look at Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. You can still see the Henry Moore Exhibit at the Botanic Gardens. 


I wonder what the "Golden Nugget" was for each of you? Please post. Also if you can post any artwork, yours or others,
if the software allows it. If not, email it to me, and I will post it!


On-line students and I will use this BLOG for discussing a lesson or viewing for show and tell. Since all students are varying schedules to meet personal needs, interaction will also be by e-mail. Read more about becoming an Online student at www.artfax.com

We are going to work, play, and grow on this journey of self-discovery that rewards beginning students and students with a strong skill set, whatever media they choose to work in.

Armantrout Studio: Nicole Fox wins America's Next Top Model

Armantrout Studio: Nicole Fox wins America's Next Top Model