Come celebrate with us | Carol L. Douglas

Still life by Jingwei Yang

Art-making is in some ways a hard slog. You have to be willing to try again after disappointment, you have to be more enamored of the process than the results—most of all, you have to keep doing it to be any good.

Speedo: A Hermit Crab’s Mid-Life Crisis, by Nina Koski.

My students work very hard, and we usually see progress in fits and starts—a wonderful painting glistening on an easel suddenly makes up for the days when it doesn’t seem to be working.

It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and forget the progress that’s being made, until you have the honor of having a collection of work piling up on your dining room table in anticipation of a show.

Pericles and Golli, by Nathan Tomlinson.

A painting in a frame is like a handsome person who dons a suit; suddenly that painting has gravitas, presence, authority. And I suddenly have a large collection of said paintings waiting to be seen.

Maine shore, by Sandy Quang.

So please join us for the opening of our class show at VB Brewery, Sunday, June 8, from 1 to 4 PM. That’s at 6606 New York 96, Victor, NY 14564. The work will be hanging throughout the month of June.

Deck shoes, by Teressa Ramos.

Come paint with me in Belfast, ME! Information is available here.