All Right Gov'!

AS in 'All Right Governor!'  British Cockney 'cheeky talk' on the weekly market stand when you buy a pound of potatoes or a punnet of something or other juicy.

 I am certainly not talking about Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Governator must be stre$$$ing right now with CA being in the Poorhouse.

Haven't posted a portrait sketch in a while. This is a head study from teaching demo this week at LAAFA...I think it turned out o.k...limited palette. I think it  has a little 'tude!

Let me know what you think.

This will be for sale on Ebay next week...

I am happy to say my class demos are selling on Ebay. The purchaser of last week's demo said she was surprised I would want to sell it. As in, it was nice!!!  Not a throwaway.  Hurry, I might change my mind...

Check out this week's class demo for sale

http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=johanna+spinks&_sacat=See-All-Categories

But actually, I am kinda liking the idea.  Feels good.

Class demos for sale on Ebay

After quite a bit of thought, I have decided to put more of my class DEMOS for sale on Ebay.

Unlike my portrait commissions and gallery pieces, which take MANY weeks to execute, these are super fast studies and VERY affordable, priced deliberately so. 

A chance maybe for people who weren't able to take class from me recently, around a wretched economy, to purchase a study piece that they might find useful. Or students who just liked something I did in class while watching me paint it.

There are also other people out there who might just like 'em and it fits their budget, period! That's nice too.

I should point out, these are not finished pieces, that seems pretty obvious,  but ALL done in a single demo session for students at LAAFA, CAI, or my own private classes and workshops around Los Angeles over the last few years.

Ebay link: http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=johanna+spinks&_sacat=See-All-Categories

Apres Gnat Bite...

Yes, this little girl really did climb into that boat and sit and look at the waterfall in the middle of  howling winds.

What are the chances of that? Catch it while you can - and quickly.

The benefits of a regular life painting discipline meeting the huge challenges of en plein air painting. One has to work quickly and not under the best of circumstances.

This sketch was done amid heavy winds, I had to hold down my sun hat and pochade box to continue, and swarms of gnats which stuck like molasses to my sun-screened arms.

A crowd also gathered to watch in those quiet mountains. There were a lot of distractions one way and another including the amazing mountain waterfall vista which seemed just too magnificent to even contemplate painting.

I was glad for those boats in the foreground. Almost like a still life. I just kept saying to myself "Just put down what you see"....and then you can go for a nice lunch! Which I did..splattered gnats and all. Washed them off with a nice Rose wine.