We are teaching a painting class online - and in-person - this is an hour and a half video tech check and practice for teaching painting.
We had one guest who gave us a lot of advice that pissed me off, but I didn't let on that I was annoyed! His advice was interesting and we will take it to heart - but it was weird - he told me to watch Bob Ross videos to get his "talking points" - but Bob Ross was teaching a formulaic painting and I am going to be teaching painting from a still life as I do it, so to me, these are 2 different things completely.
Mainly my problem today was that I was attacked by the voices telling me I was fucking up... so it was hard for me to have the confidence to actually simply confidently paint - but the painting turned out fine. We are going to be doing this every Monday at 5pm MST.
Mostly I had to become comfortable with talking while painting from a still life. Talking and painting are very difficult - I found today.
The video is "private" on youtube so I published it on my website so you can check it out if you want.
https://joannawhitney.weebly.com/mystery-school-of-art.html
I am going with the theory that visual as a deeply occulted technique used for deep and powerful magick and that it was stolen from the common "man" and made into what it is today - something silly to do that gives you nothing so why bother doing it. I am going to prove that in these classes.