Hey Evan here, hope your having an awesome day,
Back in 2005 I made a journey to the woods of upstate New York. I wanted to learn realistic portrait painting techniques with the master portrait painting artist, Daniel Greene. He’d done portrait paintings of public icons for the last 50 years. He himself was an icon to the portrait painting community.
Despite these attractive characteristics, I was deeply conflicted about picking up and moving to the middle of no where to study with him. Not to mention, I spent my savings on the deposit for the three week summer art workshop.
I arrived at a huge barn in posh green countryside. He had turned the entire barn into his portrait oil painting factory. It felt like 130 degrees inside, and if the industrial sized fan was on, you’d go deaf from the drone like humming. The black wood interior made it sucked all light away, beside for the strip of Northern facing sky lights 100 feet up.
I arrived with a knot in my stomach from spending ALL of my money on this single summer art workshop.
I had signed up for all 3 weeks, which I was excited about until…. they described that each week is a repetition of the last, so you really just bought one week and then time in front of the model for 2 weeks. After I signed the check I nearly vomited with self destruction.
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