"part two with Misty"....grab a cup of tea, put your feet up and enjoy

When I filled out my class evaluation for VR

~the day after my workshop~

I had written it with hopes of really

being able to

convey to Kathy how wonderful

Misty had been

~~~~~

I'm going to reuse some of what I wrote

in hopes that many of you can feel

just a tiny bit

of

what I felt in the two days

I spent with Misty

Misty is

talented and warm

extremely genuine

silly

unique and honest

~~~~~

She is immediately approachable

and was "there" for all of us

consistently making us feel that our talents

were reachable

~~~~~

She guides with a passion that opens your heart

and makes you feel awake

and alive

and takes away that

"yes, I think I can be an artist"

and replaces it with

an

"I AM an artist"

attitude

~~~~~

I walked away from class

feeling confident.

Not only in my art

but in my life.

This photo is from one of her demonstrations

which you need to see to believe

as she moves at a speed

that needs its own word

~~~~~

I could say lightning or warp

but honestly

it's "misty speed"

and I've never before seen anything like it

~~~~~

She works with everything wet

mixing and layering

moving and changing

gluing and painting

drawing and detailing

almost always

by using

only her fingers

And this is the beautiful
finished piece
and if we had used a timer
I think it might have said

total time:
30 minutes

The hands of a real artist

At the end of our workshop

I didn't have my art journal with me

for Misty to sign

so I slipped her an old piece of ledger paper

and instead of just signing it

she made me a little piece of

Misty art

that I will cherish forever

after Misty's 30 minute demonstration

I challenged myself to do the same...

NOT EASY PEOPLE

as

I don't work fast

or messy

I like my fingers to be clean

I like things to be perfect

and

faces

are really, really hard

but I will say

I was kind of impressed with myself

when I was finished

~~~~~

BUT

I don't think I'm done

as

now that I'm home

I want to keep playing with this piece

adding more layers and paint

{this is called misty disease}

And here are the photos of my

background pages

and I love them

as

they were much more in my comfort zone

than the faces

~did I mention faces are hard to paint~

~~~~~

she taught techniques for the backgrounds

and landscapes

that

I had never used before

and I'm now in love

with razor blades

~~~~~

{and right this minute

I just pressed the wrong button

and somehow blogger

just ate my last two photos}

~~~~

So I will share

my other background

photos and our class picture

in part three

but I'll leave you with the

words that I had already written

~~~~~

so that was

my wonderful experience

in the hands of an angel

and

even now

I'm still walking

with my head held high

atop of

the confident path

Misty helped me find

~~~~~

and I plan on staying here for

awhile