July is the month of friendship! To celebrate International Friendship Day (July 30th), bring your friend to this Masterclass where we paint 2 friends and you'll both enjoy £30 off.. It's Daulat the painter sitting opposite his friend and painting. Who knows what they talked about? Maybe the painter is painting his friend and his friend is painting him... perhaps they're both working on commissions together or separately... or perhaps they're doing something entirely different. Daulat the painter has temporarily looked up (as we must rest our eyes from time to time) and rested his gaze on the nearest living thing, his friend. They're definitely friends - they're in the friend zone of spatial intimacy and enjoying each other's company wordlessly. This is the best feeling - knowing someone so well that you can be in each other's presence and work quietly and separately without necessarily feeling the need to talk, yet the comfort of their warm presence animates the silence. You're alone, but together at the same time in the shared sacred creative flow zone. It's wonderful! It's rare-ish too. Tell me if you have experienced this with a loved one?
For £30 off each, use this code upon checkout: FRIENDS - Book now for July 6 start! This course and upcoming others can be found at https://www.vaishaliprazmariteaching.com
I doubly love this piece as I haven't painted a painter before and I want to honour him as a fellow artist. I want to paint the deep calm in his eyes and the happiness he exudes because he's immersed in practising his art. It's how I feel when I paint, and it's one of the reasons I paint too - painting is who I am, it's what made me me and I can't live without it. We talk about all this and more during The Art of Attention, the small, select group who are currently enjoying my mentoring project. It'll continue in autumn; please email me if you're interested in joining. More here: https://www.vaishaliprazmariteaching.com/bookings-checkout/the-court-of-gayumars-art-of-attention?referral=service_list_widget and here: https://www.miniaturepaintingforum.com/forum/news-and-announcements/the-court-of-gayumars-the-art-of-attention...
We'd love to see it, it already sounds great! There was a Brazilian art movement called Tropicalia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropicália
I’m working on a piece on vellum over board — a neotropical fantasy. It’s the most ambitious thing I’ve ever attempted. The drawing took forever. Gradually painting it in. Learning a lot!
There is nothing as lovely as drawing and painting with friends. Especially hiking in a beautiful place and stopping to sit and sketch…