The return of the Bunny

Brian 'Bunny' Batista
3 days ago
2 min read

Happy May the 4th be with you. There is a NEW HOPE for this empire as things are starting up agin this week. Looking forward to an amazing month of May. Below is what is covered in this Clean Slate issue:

Art Adventure
Blooms and Brushes
This week and beyond
Egg Tempera workshop
Bobbi's masterclass
Summer camps

ART ADVENTURE:

A whirlwind adventure, short and sweet. I had a sliver of time on my Paris adventure. I managed to fill the well and bring back inspiration to share with you too. I hit the Petite Palace, Musee D'Orsay and the newly repaired Notre Damn while eating croissants, baguettes, cheeses and cafe. A typical adventure in Paris. Unfortunately May 1st was a civic holiday and all the gallery's etc. were closed, so I lost a day to explore to unplanned occurrence but it was so nice out (28 degrees) I did outside stuff and visited Notre Damn and the tower instead.

The Musee D' Orsay had an exhibition of Norwegian artist Christian Krohg whose work I had never seen before and was pleasantly surprised by his "dutch" angled action scenes on the cold ocean and a few startling portraits. I managed to get on a flight to be back home in time to attend the ...

BLOOMS & BRUSHES WORKSHOP

What an amazing, beautiful and good smelling time. Jet lagged and surviving on coffee, it was a pleasant way to reintegrate into Calgary for me. From Galina Hughes we learned how to prepare and arrange seasonal cut flowers. After creating our own bouquet, which we got to take home afterwards, Elena Bushan taught up the principles and techniques to paint the flower arrangements we made. I learned quite a few things that I'm excited to integrate into my own painting, and maybe i'll do more flowers in the future this summer as well. You really cant go wrong with a session like this. We are collecting names and emails for a waitlist to see if there is enough interest to run it one more time, possibly. Below are some pics I snapped at the special session.

THIS WEEK & BEYOND

Everything is back to the regular weekly schedule this week, including ALL the private class sessions. I will continue to book the Thursday night Portrait sessions for May.

Mondays:

9:30 - 12:30 RISE & DRAW

2- 4:30 DIRECTED STUDIES

Private Sessions

7 - 10 LONG POSE (9 month pregnant model May 5)

Tuesdays:

Private Sessions

6:30 -9 PAINTING STUDIO

Wednesdays:

Private Sessions

6:30 - 9:30 SHORT POSE hosted by Luke Church

Thursdays: