This summer I have been taking intensive courses at Salem State University as part of my Master's degree program. The two classes are a crafts workshop (finished last week) and a painting intensive. The crafts workshop was fun and we learned a lot of new techniques that I will be incorporating in to my bookbinding and jewelry making as soon as my studio is rebuilt in the next month or so. The painting course has been a revelation. I have learned so much in such a short time. In three classes I have produced five small scale painting, though unfinished, they have each been incredibly important steps to what I hope will become a body of work. Here are a few snapshots of the work I have been doing.
