Blondheim Art Original landscape painting acrylic Palms

5x7 inches
acrylic on panel
unframed
115.00 includes shipping

Purchase at: www.lindablondheim.com





Painters Tip


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You should research the teacher you will be studying with. Take the time to look up references and testimonials about the teacher.

Remember that a fantastic painter can be a not so great teacher. A moderately good painter can turn out to be a fantastic teacher. You need to be sure that the teacher fits your style of learning and working. Some teachers are not organized and fly by the seat of their pants. That’s fine if you are comfortable with a haphazard approach to learning. If you need to learn from someone who is very organized and thorough, then you will need to find the right teacher for a more organized workshop with good time management. It is all too easy to spend time with a teacher who is sweet and loving but, who doesn’t get much accomplished. You discover that you have had a lot of fun but didn’t learn much.


There are also many workshop teachers who use workshops to sell their paintings. They have a good brand name, spend all their time demoing, showing slides of their work and selling paintings to workshop students. They are not there to teach but rather to promote themselves. There is nothing wrong with selling paintings to students at workshops, but teaching and learning should be the focus.


Be sure to fit your experience level to the right workshop too. You may feel overwhelmed with information if you are with a more advanced group. Beware of workshops which offer Beginning-Advanced levels in the same workshop. These teachers are just trying to bring in numbers. Beginning – intermediate or intermediate – advanced is a better choice. It is nice to have a variety of levels so that students learn from each other but putting the most experienced with beginners is unfair to both.