Water Lily, Inky Pool

Acrylic, 11 x 14

I recently became an art instructor for Grumbacher Paints. Their class curriculum guarantees that the class participants will "complete an acrylic painting in two hours!" Hmmm...... So now I'm learning to finish a painting in two hours!! I prepare for the class by creating one painting in the allotted two hours. Then, I paint it again while I demo it for the students. This headlong rush to complete 2-hour paintings has been great fun! I've learned to choose simple images that can be painted with a very limited palette. Every brush stroke counts!

Here's a painting from a recent class. The image is an inky pool at the Denver Botanical Garden with a water lily dancing on its surface.