Psst- the teacher isn’t looking. 🤡 🌅 Get your phone and post your favorite pic. Drop it in the comments below. __________________________________ 👆🏻Cliff Notes Version 👇🏻 A little more detail. The why 👉🏻 In LESSON 1, _________________________ The amount of detail we put into realism paintings simply isn’t stored in your brain. Not yet… and honestly, maybe not ever. That is NORMAL! The first lesson is in classroom HERE After you read the lesson, find 1 or 2 or even 3 images that mean something special to you. They do NOT have to be images you plan to paint. Think of it as building your inspiration library for this entire community. Later, we will VOTE on the one to paint in class. Drop it. What makes that image so special to you?

Ok, No banana pics ….. today. I am all up in my nostalgic feels from college remember the FIRST day of my first figure drawing class. Smallish, black dude standing in front of a class of virgin 20 year olds and dropping his robe to expose it ALL so I could draw ALL of it. I am teaching an IRL Figure drawing class tomorrow. The model is clothed but it still brings me back. And I was looking at some art and I wanted to show you something. Point something out. WARM AND COOL Exaggerated. See how the front of the body is very warm - reds, creams and warm browns. But there is a second light. Maybe a florescent light? And the highlights are BLUE! And how about the composition? What do you see? 🔺⭕️📐?????? This is a painting by an artist that my friend @Thomas Richards turned me on to. He paints much looser thank I do but I love it. Benjamin Lester Michael in Shadow 11” x 14” Oil on Birch Panel

Hello, I'm Angela I have actually been here since the summit. Life has just been in the fast lane. I'm a full time caregiver for my 80 yr mother with Dementia and since the Summit and hearing about people going all in and putting themselves first and starting businesses... I decided why wait... So, the reason I have been quiet in here...I went and decided to go all in. I am officially a certified Life Coach. Now I, too, can figure out, and work on starting my business

This absolutely fascinated me. The artist is Jesse Krimes. (First of all… Krimes?? 😂 I honestly thought he had changed his name.) Jesse served about five years in federal prison on a nonviolent cocaine conviction. While incarcerated, he secretly created this work. Using… 🫟 Prison bed sheets 🫟 New York Times pages 🫟 Hair gel 🫟 A plastic spoon …he transferred newspaper images onto 39 prison bed sheets. Then he drew over them, transforming them into something completely new. When each sheet was finished, it was secretly mailed to friends and family… One bedsheet at a time. The entire project took three years. He never saw all 39 sheets together until AFTER he was released from prison. The title of the work is: Apokaluptein: 16389067 “The Uncovering of Inmate 16389067.” His prison number had literally become his identity. 🫟🫟🫟🫟🫟🫟🫟 Moral of the story… If one of you Dropouts ever ends up in federal prison… We’ve got Sketchy Deliveries. We’ll keep your artwork safe until you get out.

I am attempting another painting for my mom’s birthday. The first one I made, I got so frustrated that I peeled off all the acrylic from canvas. This one I hope will be different. I know people frown about using AI, but I seriously can’t imagine or picture things in my head. So, what I did was tell AI what I wanted in the picture and let them sketch it out. I traced it on to the canvas( which is just as hard as freehanding it) and have started putting down base layers. This is definitely not the final look, although with my skills, it just might be 😂