This year has been so strange (like I need to even say that) and summer has been no exception. I’ve spent more time in the garden and walking around the lake than ever, a paddle here and there in the kayak, and even having a new studio floor installed! I’ve taught classes at the art league all summer, too, but I am skipping the 3-week Late Summer Short Session in favor of putting my studio back together and getting back to work on paintings.
My favorite time of year isn’t actually summer, as anyone who knows me can attest because I complain a lot about excessive heat and humidity, but it’s the transition of late summer into Fall. Late August through October is the best for beautiful light, changeable weather, anticipation of Fall, and watching everything outside start to turn into warm, earthy colors.
My classes and workshops at OPAL will resume the week of September 18, and this time I will be splitting Mixed Media in two – Intermediate/Advanced Mixed Media on Tuesday afternoons and Beginner Mixed Media on Thursday afternoons. It feels like the right time to do that while class sizes remain small, so I can try out two separate curriculums. Visit here to check them out.
No workshops are listed yet but stay tuned!
Meanwhile, I am curating what is in my studio to suit my creative energy right now, which is much more spacious and uncluttered than before, and very little on the floor. Lots of room for magic to happen! It’s been a weird couple of years of what has felt like a major transition into this headspace, two years of not a ton of productive painting. Of course almost all of 2019 was different because I worked full time at Misericordia, and a series of commissioned book illustrations, and those two things took up almost all of my energy, creative and otherwise. 2020 started out with my mantra for the year being “alignment,” and it feels like it is really happening now, even in the midst of a pandemic that changed everything.
