Hello there my favorite small human beings!!
How are you? How many days are left in the school year at this point? Are you excited about summer? What are you planning to do with your free time?
Last night I finished my final assignment for my Andy Warhol class – it was a term paper. The last time I had to write a term paper was probably 15 years ago. I have not missed it. In the work world you tend to write power point presentations with things in bullet points, or at least that’s how it works in MY work world. I never write whole paragraphs anymore! But I did it, I turned it in, and I am very proud of myself. J So yay!
As mentioned, I went searching for a famous palette knife painter to use in my letter to you this week. I’ve chosen my all time favorite, a guy who is still living and painting right now named Leonid Afremov. He’s kind of famous, but there isn’t a lot of stuff written about him, the way there is on Georgia O’Keeffe or Vincent Van Gogh. Maybe because he’s still making new work!
I hope to be able to paint half as well as he does some day. He was born in Russia, but later moved to Israel, then to the United States, and now he lives in Mexico! I think that’s pretty cool- can you imagine living in countries all over the world? He must speak a lot of languages. He also teaches classes….some of them are on-line, but I don’t really like on-line classes. But maybe someday I can go to Mexico and take a painting class from him – that would be AMAZING!
I love all of the bright, happy colors he uses in his work; in all of his pieces that I like best he has entire rainbows of color – reds and oranges and yellows and blues and purples…but never very much green. I don’t know why, but I do know that just looking at his paintings makes me feel happy, and that is what art should do!
Know that I love you both very much and think that you are awesome.
Hugs and kisses,
Auntie Paula
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