In this lesson, Flowers on a Table, Ginger will show you how to paint a beautiful bouquet on a table. The colors will be worth the time to watch.

This is a Premiere YouTube tutorial tonight. This Ginger Cook original painting will be painted on a 12x12 canvas.

This is a PREMIERE show where Ginger and Jon will be answering questions from the chat and just visiting with the studio audience.

We will be on at 5:30 pm central

(6:30 pm Eastern)

https://youtu.be/xEWfxViCYw8

In Palma De Mallorca, Spain, we visited (from the outside), St. Bart's. 

We had quite a "thrill" ride in a little scooter cab on our way to meet Lorraine. 

We met one of our fans from Malta in Civitavecchia.

Okay, it's not a tractor, but we can hope for a scooter painting, can't we?

It seems that all of the ruins have plenty of cats that roam the grounds.

Our final excursion was to Pompeii and was really something to see. Now, I feel that after all of the ruins that we have visited on this trip, I can check them off the list.

We recently heard this story from a member of our Academy, and we feel that we have a solution to help our artistic members face these challenges.

She writes...

I need some encouragement! I went to an arts and crafts festival, and a lady came up to me and was looking at my paintings and invited me to their group of artist club. I went and joined, and when she introduced me, she said she had met at the art fair and that I had these cute little paintings of trucks, etc., kind of like pop art!! I was astounded! She was talking about the rusty truck, red barns, and old English truck. 

They are having a juried show in November, and she told me I would not be able to show any of my tutorials, that it would have to be an original, no copies of other paintings, and no published photographs! And that I had a month of time to come up with an original! I felt like I was being talked down to.....so, I'm going to enter this show and show her!!! 

To be honest, I don't have hardly any originals, most all of them are your tutorials. But I do have this rose that I did. Do I need a different background or more contrast?

OUR HELPFUL SOLUTION IS TO OFFER CHALLENGE PHOTOS

A new thing I am doing for our Red, Blue, and Purple Academy members is a custom photo challenge painting. This will be exclusively for our students which take advantage of our Personal Art Coaching. The students who have done a very good job on my tutorials might be offered a challenge photo. This is to see if you can capitalize on what you learned from the video tutorial and do something similar.

This is a new thing I am doing as I'm trying to accommodate the folks who really want to learn how to paint from their own pictures, which is just about everybody... Jon will make a certificate of accomplishment, too. This will count as one of the four pictures you can send in a month for PAC, but you can send it back and forth as long as we are working with the painting like the other PACs.

Art Hugs,

Ginger

This is an original painting by Sandra Marshall - 20x24

I appreciate your feedback and have made changes to brighten the focal area and add geese in the water. I varied the sizes of tree trunks and gave more attention to the direction of tree reflections. I used acetate to trace the white tree and then invert it for the reflection. Jon would be proud, I think. 

Ginger your PACs are so valuable to me. After working with you for four years, I now have more confidence, especially in the area of painting design. Before sending this painting to you, I felt I should have a larger tree on the right. I also worked to have darks, lights, and foliage to point in the area by the white tree.

Ahh, but I forgot to tell a story. That same day I took photos of the Canadian geese swimming in another area of the pond. I wanted to add them but was concerned it might be too busy or take away from the reflections. I think they work. 

Thank you again for helping me so much on my art journey. 

Sandra Marshall

As of today, Monday, October 17, 2022, EscapeMotions still has their Rebelle 5 Pro software on sale for $10.00 US pricing. This is available for anyone on planet earth, and I would buy it even if you cannot use it right away. This is $150 software for only $10! 

If you want to understand how to mix paints and what happens when mixing certain colors, this is excellent software for this purpose, if nothing else. You can use the paints you have to see what colors you can make. We will have a video showing how to do this very soon, but we wanted to give everyone a reminder that this software is still on sale. I have not seen the ending date of the sale, so act now!

https://www.escapemotions.com/shop

In the image above, I was just playing with some of the primary colors to see what greens I could make and could I make the same color that comes out of a tube of paint. They look pretty good to me! Look for more information about how to use the software. We are looking into possibly setting up a special forum to discuss and share information about this software.

If you have questions, please reach out to use through our Contact Us form.

Are you facing challenges with your artwork? Are you looking for personalized help and advice? You can find help a lot faster with Personal Art Coaching, so this is something that you will want to keep in mind as you navigate your way through the jungle of art. We are also working on a new product that might be of interest to you in the future. 

Please use Contact Us on the new site if you have any questions or if we can help you with the new site.



Thank you, and remember, we are here to help you succeed! Please use the Contact Us form for any questions. Do NOT use Facebook, Messenger, or any other form of communication.

Ginger, Jon, and the Stuffy Staff