Egg Under Easy

Back in May, during Carol Marine's workshop, I photographed most of her still life set-ups.  Last week on my lunch hour, I decided to paint her still life set up featuring a raw egg from my photograph (with her permission).  I have to say that I would have preferred to do this from life because I struggled a bit with getting the colors accurate, particularly the egg "white".  However, this was on my lunch hour, so a photograph was what I had, and a raw egg isn't really something I could set up on my lunch hour!

Here is my photograph of her set up:

My Fifth Day at Carol Marine's Workshop

This day was business business business!  I don't have a painting for this day, but  here is a photo of all the paintings that Carol painted for the week.  Drool ... 


We covered everything from how to photograph our wet paintings, getting started with your blog (at least I have a head start there), selling tools, a few things about Photoshop, and more!


I enjoyed this workshop immensely and learned so incredibly much!  Carol is extremely organized and is an excellent teacher.  I loved every minute of it, and it was so sad to say goodbye to my 17 new friends, but I am certain that we will see each other again!

My Second Day at Carol Marine's Workshop

Yesterday was my  second day at Carol's workshop. She started off with another fabulous demo.  She makes it look so easy!!!  I'm new at the blogging stuff, so I haven't quite figured out how to properly format the posts as I would in Microsoft Word!  So, please forgive the wonky formatting.

The progression of Carol's demo is below:

Next up were value studies using only burnt umber.  We were given a very short period of time in which to do them.  Time really FLIES!!  It is an EXCELLENT exercise as it teaches you to see the values better.
Here are my value studies of an apple and a lime (in case you can't figure out what those blobs of paint really are.

After lunch, we returned to do 10 minute exercises.  There is no lollygagging in Carol's workshop!  We did six 10 minute exercises.  We divided our 6x6 canvases into quarters and had 10 minutes to paint one object.   She said she sees more people progress during this exercise than in any other.  After doing them, I get it.  I definitely felt the progress.  She also makes you clean off your palette after every exercise so that you don't make the same mistakes that you made in the first exercise.

Don't laugh at my paintings.  We only had 10 minutes!
I became really tired of the lime, so I switched to the orange slice and enjoyed it immensely!
I seem to be missing the final photo of my first attempt.  I will take the picture tonight and repost.
FIRST TWO:

LAST FOUR:

Time to shower and had to the 3rd day of her workshop!

My first day at Carol Marine's workshop

MY PAINTING

Well, as exhausted as I was today, the am thrilled to be in Carol Marine's workshop in Sedona, Arizona. Yesterday was exhausting because I spent Sunday morning packing, flying, driving and unable to sleep well at all because of the excitement of finally attending one of her workshops.  Surprisingly, a lot of the students are from California.  Carol spent most of the morning instructing and then finished off the morning with a fabulous demo. First, I will post my painting:  two green apples and a lemon.  After that, I am posting Carol's beginning, middle and finished versions of her demo.  Gorgeous, of course.

CAROL'S BEGINNING

CAROL'S MIDDLE

CAROL'S FINALE