See prep video for sketches and design. July's Zoom class filmed live (July 2) UPDATE: Final art available now in Download tab.
LIVE PAINT SCHEDULE
Each First Wednesdays (usually) meet the class on Zoom and get painting! Recordings posted by the next day. 11-noon ET. Recordings of the Zoom session will be up to watch for 1 month. Prep videos are posted about 4-7 days prior to the live paint session.
Jun. 4 Tuscany hills, road and building
July 2 Water reflections, Cinque Terre
Aug 6 Critique of June/July artwork projects (info will be emailed for selection process invite)
Sept. 3 Tuscany Live
Oct. 1 Fall Aspens
Nov. 5 Europe Hilltown
Dec. 3 Moonrise (snow or beach? class will decide)
Jan 7, 2026 Project of choice paint party
Feb 4, Coastal Rocks and Big Wave
Work from my reference or your own. UPDATE: I worked after class on the art demo, see the updated painting in the downloads tab.
During the live demo... Challenges were the dock area and light/shadow on the buildings. Students did a great job painting along! Make sure you see the great projects people painted in the last few minutes of the video.
After the video demo... I worked on the painting and scraped and repainted the boat/dock area several times. Interesting that this was a problem area during the sketch and design process! You see, it does indeed foreshadow the trouble ahead. So perhaps next time I'll pay more attention, but then again I do know I can get in trouble any time I paint! Sometimes art needs to be reworked, mustn't be afraid. The reworking time was a total of about 2 hours. This was done in bursts of about 10-20 min painting sessions. I repainted the water, sky, and buildings in some areas too. Instead of tweaking or adding detail I think about re-stating. This can grow to encompass an entire area, which then affects other adjacent areas. And so it goes. This is part of the 'keep it fresh' process and avoids a 'tight' look to the finished artwork.