I survived my public speaking adventures in Virginia and really had fun sharing my new work with the students. I am always surprised how interested they are to hear what I have to say. The more philosophical questions still kill me, but I'm getting better with those. They got to see ten progression images of
Gala and had no idea of the scale I was working on until later. It was fun to hear the gasps of amazement. They claimed to have imagined something about 1/4 the scale!
Since my return, I've been working only on the oil painting and almost exclusively on the teal green damask. I just
love painting it. I can mix all the colors and then get lost in the work. Because the pattern is disrupted by all the folds and it becomes all about painting the values. When I step away I say, "Wow! What do you know? It's damask!"
Voila. Enjoy.
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