Dori DeCamillis

In last Friday's Without a Net Creativity Workshop, among other projects, we messed around with watercolor. Here are a few examples of students' projects. See the full story (Curiouser and Curiouser) about the class on withoutanet.blog. 

Unrelated to the photo above, my good friend Kerry Madden-Lunsford just had this wonderful article published in the Los Angeles Times. I enjoyed it so much I just had to share. It's about her visit to a local prison to teach children's book writing to inmates.  Kerry's Article

Eileen Cohn Here are some gorgeous paintings finished by Red Dot students this week. I'm so proud for my talented, hardworking, fun, and delightful friends. The two shoe paintings were not an assignment, just a coincidence.  Bev Spahn Dale Turnbough Nancy Lewis Jack Branch (age 84)

Summer is a theme in some of the most recent finished paintings in my oil paintings classes.  Joyce White (above) took a not-so-perfect photograph and made magic happen. Marcia Amason will be having her own solo show at Red Dot opening in September. Becky Haines has been doing some lovely reflective still lives based on her own photographs. Glenda Weathers is experimenting with simplifying more complicated scenes. This was her first try and she really nailed it.

I finished and sold this painting recently. No title or meaning yet. Stay tuned. There are a couple spots left in my Without a Net creativity workshop, Saturday, April 29. Here is a link to all the details. 

This Saturday I am hosting my first Without a Net Workshop at Red Dot Gallery. I am pleased to offer this work to others, and if all goes well I hope to offer it in different venues. A short description is below, and a longer one is here . In the same vein, check out my new post on WithoutaNet.Blog .  Here is  a short description:  In the spirit of my artistic explorations in my own paintings, Without a Net workshop will offer participants creative exercises in various artistic media that explore personal mind states and perspectives in a judgment-free setting. With humor and self-acceptance as touchstones, participants will explore their own mind states, both light and shadowy, to engender courage, promote self-honesty, and acknowledge the universality of human frailty. The practices will fuel creative thinking while helping to develop resilience and equanimity. The group setting enhances a collective, unifying experience that facilitates growth and under...

Annabelle DeCamillis and I designed this year's poster for our neighborhood open house which was held last night. It was fun seeing it all over town. The winner of our drawing for a free class was Norah Lunsford!

Marcia Amason Here is a small selection of paintings completed at Red Dot by my lovely students over the past several months.  Joyce White Lisa Martin Deeana Crider Beverley Phillips Charla Cardin Nadine Leplantenier Louise Parsons Eileen Cohn Casey Lancaster

Cloty El Zein Enjoy some images of Red Dot student work created in the last two months. Glenda Weathers Kristin Martin Lisa Martin Pat Conrad Mary Compton Clare Maddry Casey Lancaster Alba Pinto Joyce White

Kay Lindsey Enjoy images of oil paintings completed by Red Dot students over the past two months. Jeanne Alexander Eileen Cohn Natalie Smith Louise Parsons Karen Foote Peggy (hard to remember Czech last name) Kristin Martin Beverley Phillips Ann Vaphiades

To celebrate the upcoming Mud Dabblers exhibit at Red Dot Gallery here are some photos of fun stuff in the clay studio. Hake Brushes Hanging Tools Reclaim Clay buckets Sponges Carving tools Water buckets