Each weekend Studio 1482 will be featuring posts from the One Drawing A Day archives. Today’s post is by Michele Bedigian, from back in 2016. It’s titled “Paint and Sip Party.”
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This past Saturday night I was invited to a “paint & sip party” at a friends house. If you haven’t been to one of these very popular events typically held at a commercial venue somewhere around town the teaching method is very “hands on”. You’re led through a verbal step-by-step instructional while sitting around socializing with friends on how to build a painting, emulating the “sample piece†and there’s usually not much room for “straying from the pathâ€. With every step I wanted to “run outside the box†and run …and run and run but found myself resisting. It was really strange. I think I felt intimidated. It’s only now as I look back I wonder … What the heck?? Why was I so self aware? Was there a part of me that was afraid of being “outed†… that I was IN FACT a professional artist? Huh? Am I on my way to therapy on this one?
Probably not 😉 But I did learn “it’s not easy being green“. Hope you have a rainbow connected kind of day! – Michele
