Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to bring you up-to-date on my recent and upcoming art activities.
My first session as an oil painting instructor at The Fine Line Creative Arts Center in St. Charles has one week left. My students have created several oil paintings which even impressed me. Unfortunately, my camera was not working properly and I can't show you their efforts, but here are a couple of demo sketches I did for the class.
There is still time to register for the upcoming classes if you want to learn the basics of oil painting and landscape painting.
Expressive Oil Painting is on Wednesday nights from 6-9 pm starting July 13th
and going to August 10th.
Landscapes in Oils is on Saturday mornings from 9am-noon starting July 9th
and going to Aug 13th.
For more information or to register call The Fine Line Creative Arts Center at 630.584.9443 or go to the website at www.fineline.org.
Other news, I have been doing a lot of painting in the great outdoors and have been using the palette knife to create most of the pieces. The palette knife forces the artist to loosen up and helps create beautiful textured surfaces. The painting at the top of the email Dupage River, June 8th was completely done with the palette knife. It is a fairly large painting for me being 30" x 40". I recently bought an shop apron to paint in, because when the palette knife is flinging paint, I tend to wreck a lot of my shirts.
I attracted a lot of attention and was visited by a group of Brownies on a field trip, when I painted this 24" x 30" plein air painting of Herrick Lake.
The Brownies asked a lot of good questions, and made me feel as though I was Monet with all of their wonderful compliments.
Well, I don't want to take up any more of your precious time, so I'll end this epistle now with the open invitation for you to drop in and see some of my work at:
The Proud Fox Gallery in Geneva, Illinois
Kamp Galleries of Chicago (in the lobby of the Drake Hotel) and Winnetka
or to see my very small paintings at
The Comfort Me Shoppe in Lincoln Park.
All the best, your friend in art
Bill
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