Make It TAke It Oil Painting Workshop from August 28th.

Hi everyone!!!
   Our monthly Make It Take It Oil Painting Workshop at The Painting Lady1 Art Studio went really, really ,
WELL!  I was  fortunate to be able to reproduce a painting From Tony and Friends Art Studio in St. Charles, Ill.  Tony graciously let me use his painting for our workshop!  I will definitely be using this painting in January for our monthly Make It Take It Workshop at The Dundee Senior Center!  It is a painting of a wine bottle, glass and grapes, which in January will go along with our New Years' Eve theme!  My students had fun with painitng, espically when it came time to do the wine label on the bottle!  Each students had a different approach to the label! That is a good thing to let your students do!!  Always be flexible and open to ideas they may have for THEIR paintings! In this case,rather than putting in little flowers along the edge of the label, one did a beautiful vine, the other did a vine with leaves and little red dots.  My third student got really creative and did all of the plus lettering on the lable to make it her own!  ALways remember to let your students have a say in how they do their paintings, you want to encourage them to think on their feet!  Because as a teacher you are not always going to be there to help them!  When they are working on their own you want them to go ahead and try new ways,to no be afraid to try!