Today we began our trek down the middle of California headed to the Society of Decorative Painter's conference in Anaheim. We chose to only drive 400 miles today in order to be "fresh" for the trip over the grapevine and into the LA traffic. It might not be too bad because of the holiday, or it might be worse, we'll see.
I am planning to blog daily activities and photos from the convention center as I am able. The internet service at the Hilton is $12.95 per 24 hours, which is verging on highway robbery, so I don't care to support it. I do have a dial up number, so we'll see.
Just so you don't get bored this week, here are a couple of entertaining videos to watch. The first one is of Robert Genn taking an afternoon off to do a landscape on his birthday. Nice music accompanies it, and do note that he puts in the background after the main elements. He is using acrylics; video goes for about five minutes. His writings are quite interesting as well.
http://clicks.robertgenn.com/persistence-creativity.php
To entertain you further, spend about 3 minutes and watch a clever fellow doing portrait work with ketchup and french fries at McDonalds. There are just sooooo many clever artist's in the world! God never short changes His people on creativity, you just have to recognize and expand it. As the fellow says, "paint is much friendlier to use, but it is just a matter of working with the product to get the feel for it." Now I do believe I've said that a few times myself!! You'll never look at those french fries the same way again.... Enjoy.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1gvGDsIYrrQ
I am planning to blog daily activities and photos from the convention center as I am able. The internet service at the Hilton is $12.95 per 24 hours, which is verging on highway robbery, so I don't care to support it. I do have a dial up number, so we'll see.
Just so you don't get bored this week, here are a couple of entertaining videos to watch. The first one is of Robert Genn taking an afternoon off to do a landscape on his birthday. Nice music accompanies it, and do note that he puts in the background after the main elements. He is using acrylics; video goes for about five minutes. His writings are quite interesting as well.
http://clicks.robertgenn.com/persistence-creativity.php
To entertain you further, spend about 3 minutes and watch a clever fellow doing portrait work with ketchup and french fries at McDonalds. There are just sooooo many clever artist's in the world! God never short changes His people on creativity, you just have to recognize and expand it. As the fellow says, "paint is much friendlier to use, but it is just a matter of working with the product to get the feel for it." Now I do believe I've said that a few times myself!! You'll never look at those french fries the same way again.... Enjoy.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1gvGDsIYrrQ
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