Finished and Sold

This is Callie.

"Callie" acrylic on canvas 12 x 12
copyright Adele Castillo AllRightsReserved

I began this painting in one of my Paint Along workshops.  That's where students come in and we generally paint the same image. I demonstrate and students copy my technique to get started, but after the initial layers are done, and some valuable technique and color mixing information is shared, students move along with their own interpretation.

Callie's Mom offered her as subject matter for the group that weekend.  She loved it so much, she offered to purchase it.  So Callie was finished up and went home this past week.  

Thank you, Callie's Mom! 

Painting and Teaching

"By Learning you will Teach, 

           by Teaching you will Learn."  

                                                                attributed to Latin proverb and to Phil Collins lyrics. 

Painting in Progress

I've been told I was probably a dog in another life.  If such things are true, it's probably so.  According to Animal Wisdom, I am Coyote.  (ok, that's not exactly what I had hoped - Wolf was what I imagined.)  In this life, I am woman, painter and also, teacher.  

Trying to paint AND teach is challenging.  I manage to do both.  Some will argue you can't do both and do either well.  There is some truth to that.  Only in the sense that you can't be in both places at once.  In my case, it means that I don't paint as often as I like.  

Monday night class

Which is why, in May, for the first time in 4 years, I'm taking a month off from teaching to concentrate on painting.  I'm looking forward to it - chomping at the bit, actually, for May to come NOW.  Not that I don't love teaching or my students.  I DO...beyond description.  But it's time for me to paint.  

New Works and Sold

"Smiling"
6 x 6 acrylic on wood panel 

"Puppy Butts Two"
4 x 4 acrylic on wood panel

Thank you to recent buyers who have purchased a few of my smaller paintings.  These little ones found homes in the last couple of months.  

"Scotty" 4 x 4 acrylic on wood panel

In addition, I have two more small pieces in the Puppy Butts series ready for sale.  These are each 

5 x 5 inch acrylic on canvas.  

"Puppy Butt Three"

"Puppy Butt Four"

More work still on the easels will completed and posted soon.  

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