Posted by Maggie 
Category: Two weeks ago I took a 4-day painting workshop with Jove Wang. Besides being an amazing painter, he’s an excellent teacher. I learned so much in that short amount of time. I finally know how to capture the spirit of a painting in less than an hour. Not to mention I actually understand values now; and temperature. I have so much more to learn, but that will come with practice.
On our last day, the Palos Verdes peninsula was covered in fog. At first I didn’t think there was anything to paint in that grey muck — but then I looked down at the rocky shoreline and saw all these subtleties in color and mood. With freezing fingers, and water dripping off my glasses, I whipped out a painting in an hour (1st image). Then a few days later, back in my studio, I re-did the painting from a photograph (2nd image), and came up with something slightly different. I never thought I’d care about rocks in water, but after this experience, I feel like I could paint rocky shorelines for the rest of my life and be happy!
May 11th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Beautiful work Maggie.