Myrna's Classes and My Fish

As you may or may not know my friend Myrna Giesbrecht has written a seven week course called “Discovering Design” that starts at the end of March. The class is almost full but you can check out the details at her website - http://www.myrnagiesbrecht.com - and get on the list for a future one or sign up now. I just edited the lessons including adding a critique of her developing piece with each lesson. You can watch her progress through her own design and hear me put in my two cents worth every week. The workshop is not only fun and doable, it's thorough and comprehensive. Added to that, she will share her personal reviews and insights about YOUR projects. You can trust Myrna to be gentle as always. Discovering Design is loaded with information, projects, and personal help that will help you rev it up a notch; maybe two or three. It'll be an awesome class. Get yourself over there to keep your right brain active and sharp.

So while Myrna has been writing AND arting away in her studio, I have been painting some more and thought you might like to see my Moonlight Gourami so far. This fish is fantastic. You mostly see it as kind of a drab, silvery fish but when it hits certain light, it shimmers and picks up all these colors that make my eyes go nuts. I have to capture it on fabric. The next thing I need to do is work a bit more on the body, blending in the spots on the underside and back and then I am going to use some fabric dye for the background colors. I'll post the next picture tomorrow as I work on that phase of the project.



Size is going to be 24" x 46" when finished. This fish absolutely glows. Hope I can capture that. Happy painting/dyeing/arting everyone.