playing with this acrylic and glaze painting --this is the time in painting which is referred to as the awkward stage which is as it passess from start to finish

a few little paint and ink jots of thoughts and visuals

saw an abstract demonstration on Trodden Path decided to try one too

my first attempts at Impressionistic painting

Last Winter The Milwaukee Art Museum had a show on Impressionism and after seeing it I found at the Naples Saturday Market a large book on Impressionism selling for 2 bucks (a steal!) I love the work of the early masters of Impressionism. I have a girlfriend who was interested in learning acrylic painting and impressionism so she spurted my interest in trying it myself. I went on the internet and found various sites and museum tours high lighting Impressionism. Here are a few examples of my first attempts in Impressionism

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I was in Petaluma CA at Art is You for 5 days I took 4 workshops 2 of which the work is completed. Karen O'Brien taught a class "Inky Folk" in which we worked with texturizing, acrylic inks on watercolor paper. We did a painting with Acrylic Inks and then looked at them to find images . I found a Geisha Owl and made her the star of the art piece. Andrea deMeng taught a class on visual narratives and cohesive composition using collage, acrylic painting and images to make separate but yet integrated art forms which would tell a story such as a scroll does. The piece is on canvas 5'x12" I have both pictured here