August Paintings -Making it Yours!

Hi The Painting LAdy 1 here, have been so BUSY these last few days of August!  We had our monthly Make It Take It Oil Painting Workshop at The Painting Lady 1 Art Studio last Saturday, August 28th, I usually have a theme to our paintings for each month.  But one of my regular students saw a flyer from Tony and Friends Art Studio with one of his paintings from his 1st half of the year art projects.  She was wondering if we would be able to do it in the following months or better yet for our January 2011 Make It Take It Oil Painting Workshop?  Well I e-mailed Tony and asked permission to use the painting for one of our painting projects and he was so gracious, of course we could.  Well I got the supply list and the pattern and went to work,  We are definitely going to use the painting for our January Make It Take It Oil Painting Workshop in 2011at The Dundee Senior Center! But in the mean time I did the painting ,showed it to my students, who fell in love with it so we did for our August project here at The Painting Lady 1 Art Studio! This is a wonderful painting of a Wine Bottle with Wine Glass and Grapes, it turned out Great! My students personalized the label on the bottle to make it their own!  It always amazes me how each artist personalizes their artwork!  Each of our paintings was totally different from the orginal that I put together!  But never the less each painting was definitely the work of that artist!  The day went by so fast, before we knew it it was 4PM and we were putting finishing touches on the painting, getting ready to clean up and go home!  I had a set of twins this workshop, they were so sweet, each did something totally different on their paintings, when their parents came to pick them up after their brothers' football game, they were totally blown away by what they did in one day!  They told me that they had been trying to work out school,sports and music lessons to get to this painting workshop!  That makes all the work for me totally worthwhile!  I also had a Make It Take It Oil Painting Workshop at The Dundee Senior Center on Monday August 23rd, we did a totally different painting for that workshop, again like I said earlier, I try to have some type of theme for each months' painting.  This painting had an end of summer theme to it, it shows a little boy and girl sitting on rocks by their pond, just having a peaceful summer day!  Again each of my students paintings turned out so different!  Each student put their own personal touches to their paintings! This painting had a green background of trees, bushes,etc. my one student limited the green trees and put in blue sky, which turned out pretty darn good! My otheres like I said put their own personal touches!  We had a really good Monday filled with painting and chit chating all day long!  again the day went by way to fast!  I think that I  am a pretty flexible teacher for my students, when they want to make a change on their painting I tell them to go right ahead!  It is the only they are going to learn!  They are going to be painting at home alone sometime and  I do not want my art students to ever be afraid to try something on their own!  Well again I have to get going on the next Painting Project for September!  So I will  talk to everyone soon!  Have fun and get out there and PAINT!!!!