Class with Lura Schwarz Smith

 Today and yesterday was spent learning how to paint faces, flowers, landscapes and most anything else you'd want to paint, from a fabulous teacher by the name of Lura Schwarz Smith.  If you are a quilter, you probably know who she is.  If you haven't heard of her yet, check out her website,  http://www.lura-art.com/  The class was sponsored by my guild, Almond Country Quilt Guild.  Thanks to Sheila for getting the class organized and making it easy for us to learn from a wonderful teacher.

It was a busy two days as we did a series of drawing exercises and  learning the importance of value.  "Value does all the work and color gets all the credit," Lura reminded us.  Below are some photos of some of the students hard at work, dabbling with all the wonderful 'substances' that Lura brought for us to try out.  We played with Tsukineko inks, Prismacolor pencils, Fabrico and Sakura markers, among other drawing tools.

Laura gives advice to Ginny on her beautiful work in progress.

Lura at the drawing board.

She really was a very giving, positive teacher.  At times I was frustrated with my drawing, but if you aren't frustrated, you probably aren't really learning anything new.  She was great at making us feel confident we would get it.