TEN Things I Learned From This Painting
Dryad in daylight The summer of 2022 I have been probing various art forms in a quest to find my own, unique style. Oh my. That's not true! Not at all! I actually know what my own style is. It's always been there, in my music, my clothes, the books I read, the blogs I write - complete with redundancies. It is also in my visual art. What I've really been trying to do is to master my horn; to hone the craft, learn the skills that will let me express that inner artist. Not just the drawing skills and the painting skills but also the pacing skills, the thinking skills, the process skills that will enable my painting skills to let the visions inside me manifest. In the hunt for technical skills I've been taking lessons from artists I admire. Ida Andersen Lang is one admired teacher and this September she introduced me to Marie-Laure Delage-Carlson in Art Soul Gathering 2022, the first of a series of free lessons she sponsored, taught by a ...