I did this in my final 2 classes in Adult Foundation Drawing at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

This pic was done with Oil Pastels (which I hated at first) from a magazine reference, probably National Geographic.

Blue Lagoon in Oil Pastels

Actually, I hate exceptional customer service, and that is what I’m greeted with at my comic book store of choice, Heroes World, located just north of Toronto.

Every time I go in, the staff actually acts as if they enjoy being there and sharing their enthusiam with clients - go figure.  This “treat your customer well” philosophy might be great for business, but it kinda sucks for me, because I never seem to leave the store without purchases.  Why are they making it so easy for me to buy?

I’m not a Super Hero genre fan, yet last week I left the store with “Superman, Red Son“.  Today I left with the collected series from 1 - 14 of “The Immortal IRON FIST“.

I don’t like great customer service - no, I mean it.

If you happen to be in Toronto, please do check out Heroes World.

I made a couple of signigficant discoveries last night in class -

1. Working with colour showed me just how little I know about colour.

Our teacher introduced coloured chalk last night; not a pretty picture (pardon the pun)

2. I don’t like charcoal.

I inhaled way too much charcoal dust in class.  I’m going to stick with pencil for the time being!

At long last, I had my 1st art class last night at the Art Gallery of Ontario Gallery School, or the Anne Tanenbaum Gallery School.

I was thrilled to be sketching a white cone and 2 white spheres on white foamcore with charcoal - no, really I was thrilled.

I can’t wait until next week’s class.

I start art classes today at the Art Gallery of Ontario.  I’ll probably begin shading spheres and cubes.

Gotta crawl before you can walk or run I suppose.