Friday, May 4, 2012   What you are witnessing above is deep and
intensive right brain development. Pathways between neurons
being formed and changed and new creative areas of the gray
matter being explored for the first time. Workshop students.
Demo from the driver's seat. Yep. When a beginning artist steps
up to plein air painting for the first time it is like drinking
from a fire hose for most of them. There is so much information
- from technique to three-color palette to equipment to a small
dissertation on bugs and snakes and other outdoor hazards. The
first day they spend a lot of time with the "deer in the
headlights" look. Which is natural. I had it for three years
when I started. But, with diligence and perseverance there is no
reason that all of them can't be very good plein air painters.
Just put in the hours. And bad paintings. Thousands. Of baaaadd
paintings. I prefer to call them lessons though. Hopefully
tomorrow I can get them one more day and one more bad painting
closer to their goals.  Fini