Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Actually, Patricia sold the painting for me. It was a watercolor from our trip to Italy this summer and was hanging in her hallway. One of her yoga students liked it, and just picked it up today. I heard about it by email from Patricia: LEROY FORNEY IS A PROFESSIONAL ARTIST, HAVING JUST SOLD HIS FIRST PAINTING! i wish you could have seen how excited michelle was when she took it off the wall, hugging it with a big smile. she was almost dancing when she left. she chose the "orangey" building on the wall by itself. it reminded her of where they stayed in italy. i have your check. Congratulations! patricia
Otherwise: Classes began this week at the Penna Academy of Fine Art. First class yesterday, with Doug Martenson. We were doing figure sketches in charcoal, which is how he starts his classes. It is a good exercise, and my figures flow more gracefully than they did when I first took this course last January, but I'll be glad when we get to painting.
During the midyear break I got permission to paint in the Museum, and started copying Thomas Eakins' portrait of Walt Whitman. It is awfully intimidating, being there smearing paint around in the presence of all those Masterpieces. I can FEEL all the Great Masters scowling at my daubings. As I was messing up my canvas yesterday, there were troops of school kids being shown around by their teachers, and the teachers all wanted to show Walt Whitman to the kids because he was a poet and the kids were doing poetry homework. So I had lots of attention. Afterwards one of the teachers came back to tell me that a kid asked her if I was related to Walt Whitman, because I look so much like him and seemed to be doing a self-portrait. (!).
Well, we are both old guys with bulbous noses , thin hair and beards, so....
Otherwise: Classes began this week at the Penna Academy of Fine Art. First class yesterday, with Doug Martenson. We were doing figure sketches in charcoal, which is how he starts his classes. It is a good exercise, and my figures flow more gracefully than they did when I first took this course last January, but I'll be glad when we get to painting.
During the midyear break I got permission to paint in the Museum, and started copying Thomas Eakins' portrait of Walt Whitman. It is awfully intimidating, being there smearing paint around in the presence of all those Masterpieces. I can FEEL all the Great Masters scowling at my daubings. As I was messing up my canvas yesterday, there were troops of school kids being shown around by their teachers, and the teachers all wanted to show Walt Whitman to the kids because he was a poet and the kids were doing poetry homework. So I had lots of attention. Afterwards one of the teachers came back to tell me that a kid asked her if I was related to Walt Whitman, because I look so much like him and seemed to be doing a self-portrait. (!).
Well, we are both old guys with bulbous noses , thin hair and beards, so....
Labels: I SOLD a painting - How about THAT?
