I haven't been posting to my blog. I ended up abruptly quitting the oil painting class I was taking, just right before the end of the term, when the teacher's cumulative rudeness, intolerance for my disabilities, and some good old fashioned anger at being humiliated in public, made me decide it was not where I chose to spend my time.
I waited some time, then decided that the situation needed to be addressed, and I wrote and dealt with it... but it was several months before I could make myself pick up a paint brush again, and I still really haven't worked in oils since the disastrous parting with the class. I'm trying to go back into the oils, but it just hasn't happened yet.
I did sign up for a watercolor class in the Fall, and I've been enjoying it, but still having to fight with myself to get my creative side to cooperate. So, I've not been painting enough, and I have been producing a lot of unappealing work because I second guess myself and tighten up.
Starting last month, I decided that painting outdoors on Friday afternoons for a couple of hours would be a way to inspire myself and free myself from some of the negative results of the other class, so I have made it a point to go the last three Fridays, and I'm beginning to feel more inspired by nature and outdoor lighting... and letting myself relax more. I started a Yahoo group for any of the students in my class who want to do this, too, but I'm doing it for myself, first.
Ysabeau
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