tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4148372607023833112.post-79316702239663588222008-05-04T21:49:00.003-05:002008-05-04T22:05:16.330-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://jimoberst.com/uploaded_images/8047w-700459.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://jimoberst.com/uploaded_images/8047w-700455.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Last week I attended a 3-day watercolor workshop in Hot Springs Village taught by Ratindra Das and sponsored by Brush Strokes.  I learned some important things about managing paint on wet paper, and I painted four paintings wet on wet on a vertical easel.  However,  I don't favor Ratindra's "flat shapes" painting style, and was unsuccessful replicating it in my paintings.  I've attached a painting of sailboats in a harbor on Maui that I did in the workshop, but it looks a lot like my usual style.<div><br /></div><div>Ratindra also judged the annual Brush Strokes exhibit hanging in the Woodlands auditorium lobby in Hot Springs Village, and I was awarded second place for my painting <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Mountain View Arkansas Barn</span></span>.  This is a rather old painting.  I had planned to exhibit a different painting, but it sold from my <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">This Fair Land</span> exhibit at the Fine Arts Center of Hot Springs in March.</div>Jim Obersthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04855306758625090762noreply@blogger.com