Moving Colors with Birgit - Workshop
This week CWA workshop with Birgit O'Connor brought a whole new experience into my artist's life. It was my first workshop that I've ever taken with an artist, besides an academic schooling of course. I had given workshops myself before and I was curious to see how is one of my favorite artists doing it.
I had three goals when I started the workshop:
- To learn how to loosen up
- To work in the group
- To get inspired
As the result, I did learn how to move a color without a fear and obtain control of a large areas and shapes. I observed what the other artists did when following the teacher's instructions. The group was amazing, mostly intermediate and advanced artists; and, they did great:
This workshop really helped me to loosen up and even though I worked on my own art projects, I tried to absorb every second of Birgit's presentation and listened carefully to her instructions in the class.
I also got inspired and started four new pieces for my Bay Area Flowers series: this time using 300lb Cold Pressed watercolor paper and Artist's grade watercolors while working with the new brushes (brushes that I got from the workshop, and I liked their quality very much).
I am glad that Birgit did not mind me being a "black sheep" and working on my own project with my own photo references. In fact, she complemented me several times on how I applied the color and worked with values :0)
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Art work "It Is All In Petals" is the collage made of fragments of my work in progress.
In Every Piece Of My Art There Is A Piece Of My Heart And A Sparkle Of My Soul
