What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture. Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don’t stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
We laughed together over lunch, saying this was “hump day” and therefore the hardest part of the five-day workshop. Then we returned to the field to prove ourselves wrong. The day reached 90 degrees, and was high in humidity, but we managed to stay in the shaded areas, for the most part, and doggedly pursued the compositions we had carved out of the neighborhood on Summit Street in the upper Eureka Springs historic district. At the end of the day, we were tired, sweaty, thirsty, but satisfied that…
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Lavender Turquois 