Everything Worked Out Fine!

The last time we heard the dreaded word 'propagation' it was followed by the words 12-72 hours. OK, fine, but we had a 64,000 newsletter mailing scheduled in 24 hours.

Oopsie.

Just one of the 'minor' incidents that happen around the Wicki-Zoo :) I found a propagation map and you could watch as servers all over the world changed from a red dot to a green checkmark. Yeah, I know. Could have panicked and pulled a prima-donna world-class fit, but the calmer, gentler Wicki found something to entertain herself with.

This time it just took an hour or so, but it was still fun to watch those little green checkmarks change almost instantaneously!


Hmmm. Tech-head Geek or Artist? Artist or Savant? Savant or Obsessive Compulsive? I'd better sign-out for today before this gets ugly :)



xxoo
Wicki
multi-talented banquet entertainer

Temporary web outage

Oops. We did a major server change 6 weeks ago, and managed to move all our files without any disruption.

However, when we cancelled our little testing plan today, someone (not me, I'm sure :) missed changing a DNS address. SO, it is happening now.

Should only take a few hours at most for it to 'propagate' around the world.

Sorry for any inconvenience!

Vicki

Why Some Artists Almost Always

Create Great Paintings:

• ...they have learned color chemistry 
  
  • how certain colors 'hold hands' 

• ...they can 'find the painting' in a view of the landscape
  
  • ...or how to remember when the tide comes in

• ...they spend time and effort setting up a still life
  
  • ...knowing how to balance the eye flow

• ...they concentrate on the lighting
  
  • ...how minute changes can alter the drama of a painting

• ...they understand the impact of background variations
  
  • ...getting a totally different look using the same pigments on different colored ground

• ...they practice painting the parts
  
  • ...if you can paint an apple, you can paint a face
   

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Thea in Sorolla's House

A MyArtTutor Star Student sees Sorolla up close and personal!

 "The Horse's Bath"
© 1909 Sorolla

I was introduced to Sorolla's work through Timothy C. Tyler (one of MyArtTutors). Impressed by his loose style when looking in a book, but then I realized that the size was monstrous to be that casual...80.7 inches x 98.5 inches...6 x 8 FEET. Now, that is impressive, and that ain't all, scooby-do.

He painted it from life! On the beach! Now that requires one heck of a pochade box and tripod...hahaha! Known as the 'Master of Light' you can see why when you visit his website. Wonder how he got that horse to stand still?

Quotes attributed to Sorolla:

"I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.”

"The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.”

The complete works by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida

Thea has studied with 3 of our tutors...Timothy C. Tyler, Urania Christy Tarbet, and Margaret Evans. She's been painting for a relatively short time, mostly in acrylics. In the past several months Thea has been experiencing oil and soft pastels.

"Thea's Rose"
©2010 Thea

soft pastel on Black Canson 

She is a new fan of soft pastels, and above is Thea's first pastel effort...a rose from Urania's Class #6001 "Floral Still Life.

"Black Rock Cottage"

©2010 Thea

soft pastel on Ampersand PastelBord

Her first pastel landscape was created for Margaret's "Glencoe" Class #4001 (above)

"Pots"
©2010 Thea

Acrylic on canvas

And a stunning variation of Tim's class #1001, "Still Life" executed in acrylic.

Way to go Thea!

Wow. Where does the time go?

OPS "Pastel Panorama" 2010

Best of Show winner Julie Mayser

Vicki Ross, Director MyAT

presenting award sponsored by Urania Christy Tarbet and MyArtTutor

Team MyAT has been polishing, tweaking, writing copy, working on classes. Some of us have taken advantage of the beautiful NWArkansas fall by painting outside one day a week for the past EIGHT! We had such great weather.

There are three classes available to START NOW at MyArtTutor.com. Global ~ Online ~ Interactive. Study with privacy and repeat the classes until you are confident. Our technology allows you to re-visit the workshop indefinitely, and watch it change as new students interact.

Several of us attended the Ozark Pastel Society annual show last weekend:

Judge Todd Williams and Vicki Ross

MyAT CEO, Ron Klein and Vicki Ross

Here are some pretty pictures:

"Thea's Rock"

pastel demo by Vicki Ross

"The gang"

strong winds forced us behind a building

Beautiful Arkansas Tree

tree study by Vicki Ross

Klein/Ross on location

Ross, Klein, Ross, Tyler, Leonard 

Old Building

© Timothy C. Tyler