I’m Your Puppet

Paul Klee "Gespenst eines Genies [Ghost of a Genius]" 1922
Paul Klee “Gespenst eines Genies [Ghost of a Genius]” 1922

Used to be we had two painting sessions, “Fall” and “Spring” for lack of better descriptors. And then the Creative Workshop of the Memorial Art Gallery divided the Spring session in two which I guess you could call pre Easter and post Easter. They keep dropping weeks too so the Fall session starts later and finishes earlier and the Spring session doesn’t start until mid January and of course the price keeps inching up. But I try to block all that out.

I show up to confront painting issues and our painting teacher, Fred Lipp, is always ready to ratchet it up a notch. I know that I am a better painter than I was ten years ago and I know I have a long way to go. If I felt that Fred was not able to help me get better I would not be taking his class each week. The situation is pretty clear for me and the price is worth it. The interesting thing about all this is how Fred is always there like Sly Stone to take you higher.

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  1. I thought the courses were shorter… I hadn’t been paying attention to the length of them. Guess we’ll just have to paint faster and hope for the best

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