Painting demo at the Ann Arbor Art Center's Paint the Town Event

The annual wine fundraiser (formerly Wine Fest) is now held downtown at the Art Center, giving attendees a chance to tour the building and still dance, drink and bid at the live auction under a tent at back of the Center. I was asked to demo my process in the 3rd floor studio space during the event. Strategic positioning next to the cheese table was a plus.
Additionally, I offered to donate the completed painting for the live auction. Here, step by step, is the painting in progress:

Just beginning

Winsor Yellow

Permanent Rose

Burnt Sienna

Almost finished

Purchased at the auction by Anita L.L. Thank you SO much, Anita!!

Feather bowling – CCS graduation

A trip to the Cadieux Cafe with some of the College for Creative Studies graduating seniors was a blast this past week. Belgian mussels and feather bowling are the draw. I took some lessons from Dave Chow and even had a small stroke of beginner's luck.

Those would be mine, closest to the feather

Then it was back to Detroit for the annual CCS student show on Friday night. It's a very big event where the students strut their stuff. Each graduate has half a wall (not enough) to display and sell their best work and everyone dresses to the nines. Here are a few highlights from some of the students in my Fall and Winter classes.

William Hanagan

Anneka Goss

Robbie Trevino

Marinko Milosevski

Jeremy Lassila