TIPS for TAKING and TEACHING Art Workshops!

Summary

Highlights

• The creator talks about growing their YouTube channel while humorously regretting a T-shirt purchase 😂.
• Experiences from teaching first workshops in Florida with unexpected Disney animators attending 🎨.
• Stories about teaching workshops in extremely hot Oklahoma conditions 🥵.
• Encounters with retired doctors learning classical painting for the first time 👨‍⚕️➡️🎨.
• Funny mishap before a presentation involving coffee and an embarrassing incident 😂.
• Key advice for workshop leaders: communicate well, apologize if needed, and avoid awkward situations 😉.

Key Takeaways

• Whether teaching or taking workshops, setting clear expectations is key 🎨.
• Always maintain a sense of humor and be prepared for unexpected moments 😂.
• Effective communication is essential for a successful workshop experience 📢.
• Stay humble and continue learning, even as a teacher 🌟.
• Creating a supportive and positive environment enhances the learning experience 🤗.

Overview

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Channel Update The creator introduces the video with an update about their channel's growth. They've gained 10 to 20 new subscribers in less than eight months, prompting them to feel the need to grow alongside their channel. In an attempt to reflect this growth, the creator humorously shares their recent purchase from Poshmark: a $15 H&M t-shirt, joking about the possible history of the shirt. The introduction ends with them expressing some regret about the purchase after seeing it on camera.
• 00:30 - 02:00: Imagination Painting and Underpainting The chapter titled 'Imagination Painting and Underpainting' discusses the early stages of creating a painting from imagination. The speaker describes the process of starting an underpainting and mentions being inspired by Bouguereau's style. The painting is being developed as an illustration, emphasizing the imaginative aspect of the drawing.
• 02:00 - 04:30: First Workshop Experience In this chapter titled 'First Workshop Experience', the author reflects on their creative journey, specifically focusing on a personal project - a book they may never complete and paintings they continuously work on. The narrator introduces a new character that they are developing through their art. They express frustration over a mistake made on an eye during the painting process, acknowledging its imperfections but choosing to embrace the flaw as part of the creative process. The chapter emphasizes perseverance and the acceptance of imperfections in artistic endeavors.
• 04:30 - 06:30: Teaching in Oklahoma The chapter titled 'Teaching in Oklahoma' opens with a conversational introduction where the speaker conveys a sense of humility by admitting that there is no possibility of impressing anyone, given the prominence of Alex Fedesia in their world. The speaker expresses a laid-back attitude, suggesting they will focus on their own interests ('work on this eye') while allowing other matters to settle on their own ('let it swim over there'). They hint at an introspective thought process ('thinking something') while acknowledging the disruptive environment ('knock into everything'). The speaker reflects on their intention to discuss the topic of teaching workshops, setting the stage for the content that follows in the chapter.
• 06:30 - 08:00: Lessons Learned from Teaching Workshops The chapter begins with a reflection on the speaker's experiences in teaching workshops, emphasizing an informal approach over strict chronology. The speaker reminisces about their first workshop, which took place at the Creolde Art Center.
• 08:00 - 10:30: Experiences at GCA The speaker recounts their experiences living in various places, including Winter Park, Florida, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York City, and briefly in Italy. They currently reside near Winter Park, Florida.
• 10:30 - 14:30: Still Life Painting Competition The narrator returns to Florida, near the location of their first art workshop at Crealde Arts Center. They reflect on the nervousness they felt during their first workshop, pointing out that as a young adult (21-22 years old), they stood out in an environment predominantly filled with adults. The situation was challenging, presenting a unique dynamic due to their age and the setting.
• 14:30 - 19:30: Snow College Workshops The chapter titled 'Snow College Workshops' focuses on an event in Central Florida, coinciding with a significant shift in Disney's operations. It was a period when Disney opted to either cut or entirely eliminate its animation department, or parts of it. The discussion acknowledges that the facts might not be entirely accurate, due to the timing of events in question.
• 19:30 - 25:00: Embarrassing Workshop Story The chapter titled 'Embarrassing Workshop Story' narrates an incident where the narrator, who was relatively unknown and had no reputation at the time, unexpectedly ended up conducting a workshop attended by several background artists from Disney. These artists had lost their jobs and somehow found their way to the narrator's little painting class, despite the narrator not being well-known in the industry. The narrator speculates that perhaps their participation was due to connections through community theater, specifically mentioning a production.
• 25:00 - 27:20: Conclusion and Channel Support In this workshop, the speaker felt both impressed and intimidated. Despite initial nerves, the experience was positive, largely due to a friendly young artist from Disney who made an effort to make the speaker feel comfortable. This artist, though still in his 20s, took the speaker, who was only 21 or 22 at the time, out to lunch. Their conversation helped ease the speaker's anxiety during the workshop.

TIPS for TAKING and TEACHING Art Workshops! Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 welcome to this new video you know i uh well  my channel has just grown exponentially i've   put on anywhere from 10 to 20 new subscribers in  a little under eight months and so i feel like i   need to grow with my channel and that's why  i went to poshmark.com and splurged on this   amazing h m t-shirt fifteen dollars god knows  who died in it and uh yeah now i'm looking   at it on cam and i'm regretting every  part of that decision [Music] all right
• 00:30 - 01:00 so yeah let's just let's just get  into this so here is a painting   well it's a painting it's an underpainting i've  just started i'm doing this from imagination   i'm kind of looking at some bugaro paintings  to kind of bring some bugaro ness into it and   we'll see if that helps but the drawing is from  imagination it's going to be an illustration for
• 01:00 - 01:30 the book that i will never finish writing or or or  making paintings for but it's what keeps me going   and so this is another little character from  that i think and i totally messed up this eye   here when i did the reinforcement and then the  underpainting in it then i tried to fix it and   it looks just awful it's kind of swimming  off to the left but i'm not to the left but   but i'm going to just keep going with it because  it is what it is and i'm not what am i going to
• 01:30 - 02:00 do like try to impress you all you know i'm in  a world we're all in the world with alex fedesia   there's no impressing anyone at this point so it  is what it is i'll just let it swim over there   and uh i'll work on this eye and uh you know  i don't know i want to talk about some things   some stuff and i was kind of thinking something   as i knock into everything i was thinking the  thing i could talk about is teaching workshops
• 02:00 - 02:30 you know i'd like to you know i don't know that  i'm going to stick to any kind of chronology here   or order as i talk about my experience  teaching workshops or my thoughts   with workshops but it would be kind  of fun for me to take a moment and   think about the first workshop i ever taught  and i got to think about what that would be i think it was at creole day creality  creality art center or art school crealde
• 02:30 - 03:00 in winter park florida not too far  from where i live now here's my address and i grew up in central florida i lived  in connecticut and rhode island for years   and years new york city um as well in italy  have you heard i lived in italy briefly uh
• 03:00 - 03:30 but now i'm back in florida very near to where   my first workshop took place at crealde  arts arts center i think is the name of it but i was incredibly nervous again my first  workshop at least the first i can remember   and you know you walk in there and i was like  21 22 years old and these art centers are mostly   you know they mostly consist of adults  so i had to be the youngest person there   certainly and here's the thing that made it  even weirder or crazier or more challenging
• 03:30 - 04:00 this you know again central  florida and it was right at a time   you could probably figure out when this  was based on what i'm about to say so   my facts my facts could be a little off okay  but it was right at a time when disney uh either cut or eliminated its animation  department or at least a portion of it
• 04:00 - 04:30 certainly uh the artists that were doing  background painting and traditional media   a bunch of them got fired right at this time  and a number of them ended up in my workshop   somehow i don't know i don't know how that could  have come about i had no reputation at the time   nobody knew who i wasn't like i was like well  known around town i did some community theater   so maybe they knew me from two weeks with the  queen but uh yeah i wasn't known at all i just had   this little painting class and somehow these these  artists from disney a number of them ended up in
• 04:30 - 05:00 in this workshop which i was obviously incredibly  and blown away by and certainly intimidated   uh but it basically went well and there was this  one guy who was an artist from disney and i don't   remember his name but he was super friendly  he really made me feel at ease he was a young   young guy too but you know me being 21 22  everybody was older but he had to be in his   20s still and he took me out to lunch and  we taught and i talked and you know it was
• 05:00 - 05:30 a really positive experience i think my next  actual workshop was after i got done studying   in new york and i was contacted by a little  uh sort of academy or classical art school   in oklahoma and they they asked me if i wanted  to teach a workshop and i was like heck yeah   heck yeah i was working for minimum wage at the  time i needed i needed all the help i could get   so i said yes and i went to this workshop  and uh it was at the woman who ran the uh
• 05:30 - 06:00 little group i was at her house her name was  leslie she's great i love you leslie i've been   talking to you in years but you were great and  so i would never say anything um negative about   that experience but it was run out of her house at  the time eventually she got a place like a school   building but uh you know it was oklahoma in  the summer so it was eight gajillion degrees
• 06:00 - 06:30 and she had this um air conditioning unit in her  garage which was where it was and there had to   be like more than 20 like 30 i don't even know  there was like so many people we had two models   in this garage and then and then all the all  the students it was so many people and it was an   inferno it was so ungodly hot and i just remember  just like sweat stinging my eyes trying to teach
• 06:30 - 07:00 and uh and leslie was so nice and you know  i remember being sort of apologetic for the   heat and i was like that's fine and everybody's so  nice like one thing i learned about oklahoma is uh the sheer fear of imminent death by  tornado um and also that oklahomans   oklahoma oklahoma and indians they're  really really really really really nice
• 07:00 - 07:30 like the sweetest people and very welcoming and i  loved every minute i spent out there which i did   end up spending several years out there but this  particular workshop was a hot box and so i black i   blocked out many of the memories but i do remember  actually this one guy i hope he doesn't watch it he was nice but it was a little surreal  um it was my first experience teaching
• 07:30 - 08:00 a retired medical doctor now it's strangely common to have students or artists wanting to get good  at classical painting that have a background in   the medical field i don't know exactly why  but i've had a disproportionate number of
• 08:00 - 08:30 former doctors enter into my classes or my  workshops which i find kind of interesting   you know they come out of this profession highly  respected highly revered in fact this guy i think   he ran it like a wing like an entire wing of the  hospital so talk about like big time he was a very   impressive person like when you talk to him in  that capacity you're like holy crap and i'm like   an idiot so i'm talking to him i'm like i don't in  what world should i be talking to you but you know
• 08:30 - 09:00 somehow i'm teaching this class and he's in  there and so i remember he wanted to like kind of i don't know he wanted to hang out he was like in  his 60s or something and it was like really young   and so he was like hey let me uh let me show  you around oklahoma tonight let me show you   the real oklahoma the oklahoma the tourists  don't see you know and so i was like okay and so we started driving  well i drove to his house
• 09:00 - 09:30 and i had a rental car by the  way so i had this rental car   and i parked it at his house and then he showed  me around his house and it was really nice house   and uh kind of house you get when  you run a wing of a hospital you know   and so it was really nice and then um he  was like let me let me show you around town   and so we go out and we get in his car you know  in his car this was kind of new at the time you   know because this was years ago he had like the  the cam where you could see behind behind you
• 09:30 - 10:00 uh where you're backing up and now that's like  in every car right but like at the time again i   was like oh that's really cool you know and  he starts backing up and i was like my god   my rental car is full view it's like just his rear  view camera is trained completely on the nose of   my rental car he's backing up and i'm like well  my god he's got all these mirrors and he's got   this screen here he's not going to hit it i mean  he's not going to hit and he hit it oh he hit it
• 10:00 - 10:30 like right into it like he was trying trying to  hit it but i don't think he was trying because he   seemed genuinely surprised and shocked by his his  uh mistake we went out and he was like ah you know   you can't even see it the dent which i could see  clearly with my own eyes because it was huge and   all the blood drained out of my face and he spent  the next 10 minutes telling me that there's no way   in the world anyone would notice it it wasn't a  big deal but of course i was freaked out because
• 10:30 - 11:00 i didn't have any money at the time again i  was working minimum wage this workshop was my   big break and here i am this doctor runs into my  car so we get in his car again i don't know why i   had no confidence at the time so i just went along  with whatever he said and we went around oklahoma we went down a street and there were  some houses and he was like look at those   and then we went to an area where there were  like these stores and businesses and he's like
• 11:00 - 11:30 check that out and i was like cool so anyway  that that went uh uneventfully but the workshop   was really interesting i think at that time  i was trying to impart some basic knowledge   things i learned as a student and some of those  things include you know fairly simple things   and and if you go into a workshop like  this and you think like what can i   do in a week that will be actually useful you know  to these people that are paying like in my mind a   lot of money to have this time with you and for me  it's just some sometimes it's just basic practices
• 11:30 - 12:00 you know some things that will just make it easier  and you can replicate uh you know on your own   and and some of that is lighting the model using  the one light blocking out other lights trying   to figure out where other shadows double shadows  are coming from you know setting up your drawing   to where you can sort of see your subject  and see your drawing you know in clear view   in a way that is easier to kind of see mistakes  so that's you know that's a big part of it
• 12:00 - 12:30 uh and and people can definitely  take that uh with them then i think to you know just that drawing  process and demoing that drawing process   that was very hard to demo at  this particular workshop because i was covered in sweat just this like insane  sheen and anyone trying to look at me demo was   having difficulty focusing because the glare just  bouncing off of my shiny face but yeah you try to
• 12:30 - 13:00 just sort of show the basic process and here's  the thing and and this is a mistake i don't know   if i made this mistake in this workshop but i made  this mistake so often early on when i was teaching   was that i would i would try  to over complicate things   to just seem smarter than i am you know  to seem like i really deserve to be there   you know i was very insecure and so i would make i  would use terms and expressions that maybe didn't
• 13:00 - 13:30 commun communicate the idea as clearly as it i  should have but it was it was more from my own   ego or my lack of confidence that i did things  like that and so if i have a piece of advice or   something that i would recommend avoiding is don't  do that you're not going to impress anyone at all   you're probably going to misuse the word which  is a big sign of a narcissist so don't do that
• 13:30 - 14:00 try to make it as understandable as possible if  it is a complicated concept like trying to explain   the way a highlight works on a surface you  know try to put it in the most common terms   humanly possible now there are some people  who come into your workshop and they'll know   this stuff they followed your blog post they  watched your videos whatever it is and they   they're kind of you can see and and  you get this from talking to them that   they're sort of on the same page and  so you can kind of skip certain things
• 14:00 - 14:30 other people don't even really have  experience mixing paint that's fine you know i'm kind of going into this eye here  i want to go up to this brow form here and i   want to sort of get some different colors going  because i'm doing this from imagination and sort   of vaguely referring to other paintings that don't  quite match with it i'm getting more monochromatic   and generic so i want to get a little bit i want  to kind of move to a different area and sort of   get a little bit of a different hue pattern going  here and so i'm going to go a little bit more
• 14:30 - 15:00 yellow with a little bit more ochre in the mix  and see if i can get something kind of going here   i don't i'm not excited about these  results right now but i'm being patient   i think it's going to get where i  want it to go and i'm kind of going   the scenic route here kind of building  up these forms around it i'm a little   bit more likely to do that and cautious when i  am working at least partially from imagination
• 15:00 - 15:30 but i think it's going to be the kind of thing  that sort of pulls together or snaps together once   there's some accents once there's some sharper  edges in there the next series of workshops i did   was that uh and this kind of over  overlapped oklahoma i was teaching at gca   in the core program and uh so i was doing  workshops there i did a lot of workshops there   in fact i think before i think i did a summer  workshop there before i started in the core
• 15:30 - 16:00 program maybe i might have been a class that i  was doing i can't really remember um but then i   started doing workshops there and uh oh my gosh  that those were fun um they're really stressful   i mean they were the most stressful workshops at  gca because it's a very competitive environment   it was very competitive environment maybe  now it's not maybe not super chill um but uh   there's this feeling like you know you would  have a lot of people that would be from the
• 16:00 - 16:30 core program people that studied full-time would  be in your workshop and they were like you know   oftentimes better than you were you know you're  trying to do a demo and teach and then there's   people in the room that are like just  blowing you out of the water it just sort of   you know messes with your confidence but it's  a good environment it's good and i'll tell you   teaching there and i'll talk about my experience  teaching there at some point in the future um   teaching in the core program because there's  uh there's lots to say but i will say that
• 16:30 - 17:00 teaching there makes you a far better artist and  teacher because you've got when you say something   you can't slide like you're gonna get a lot of  people that push back and are like is that really   true and you're like i don't know i had probably  my worst experience teaching a workshop there   you know i try to like everybody wants as much  time as they can have with you and you've got to   try to figure out how to give them that give them  something useful but then like extract yourself in   the situation and get the next person and there's  a woman there i start to pick up on her being
• 17:00 - 17:30 really pissed because i i'm not spending enough  time with her and so i just noticed her like   she looked at this right like she's sitting  on a bench you know she's like there's some   people easels and there's a bench that's right  and then i i would come up to her and i'd come   up to her and she'd be like like turn her head  away from me and uh so i could tell she was mad   i'd be like what's going on are you okay like  is everything all right and she'll be like
• 17:30 - 18:00 and then finally at some point i kind of snapped  which is not common for me i think on like the   third day and i was like listen i understand  you don't like the workshop or whatever   but i just you got you can't be so disrespectful  because other people paid money and this is   impacting everyone in the room she was being so  open about it and she was trying to like start
• 18:00 - 18:30 like a thing like a walkout but everybody else was  fine in the workshop except for her anyway 99.9   of experience is positive you have that one and  it's you know it's the it's the lesson in life i   guess it's just like social media navigating that  space you scroll past all the positive comments   and then one person's like that eye looks weird  and you're like my god i hate painting and then   you like almost delete your account so there were  a lot of workshops i did at gca and uh most of
• 18:30 - 19:00 them i taught while i was a teacher there and one  of them this was still when it was mid mid midtown   it was uh it's during the summer so  regular core classes weren't going on   and i was doing this workshop in the  one room and then in the next room   well there were three rooms in a row uh in  in midtown manhattan and there are huge rooms   and so there was like this middle room and then  a giant cast hall or there's this first room
• 19:00 - 19:30 a giant cast hall in the middle and then  a figure painting room on the far end   and in that far end room they were  doing a still life painting competition   and this was sort of a semi-annual  kind of kind of deal and the 10 best   still life artists that applied to be in  the competition were in this competition   and there was some pretty big names in it um at  the time i guess i guess some of them are still
• 19:30 - 20:00 pretty big names um and i so i was teaching in  the one room i was teaching my little portrait   painting class and you know what i actually  just recently found the image of the demo   i did in this portrait painting class the  week of the story competition here it is   i painted i did this drawing and then i did this  little form painting of an eye a lot like what i'm   painting here and this is actually the painting  i did from this workshop um and so yeah like uh
• 20:00 - 20:30 during our breaks in my workshop we could go  over and kind of like peek at the still life   competition and then when they took breaks you  could kind of go in and look at what everybody   was painting and uh and they worked all week the  exact time frame that my class was going on so   we got to see these still lives unfold and uh so  mike michael klein was there uh mike klein and uh   he was painting and uh mike's up mike's well you  know we don't hang out or you know it's funny i   always talk about these people and i'm like oh  they're a friend of mine we don't stay in touch
• 20:30 - 21:00 and i'm starting to feel like i'm not good at  friendships but mike and i go way back and uh   and so i like mike a lot and i think he's a  fantastic painter uh specifically uh his still   lives are amazing and i like his style and justin  wood was there and uh justin was still a student   at the time at gc i think i don't know i don't  know but anyway he was there painting and then
• 21:00 - 21:30 the one the only cesar santos was there anyway  so at the end of the week they do the judging   you know and this is overlapping with the end of  my workshop and i don't remember who was the judge   there were several i think tony sir and i  was the judge from suggested donation and uh   and so yeah mike klein won first place and um  i loved his painting uh it was aesthetically
• 21:30 - 22:00 amazing and just really well done and so he went  first place and then uh justin one second i think   and then uh and then cesar one third they  announced the prizes and the people are going up   and shaking hands and i went to the bathroom you  know and it was just me in there and then cezar   came in he was so mad um i don't know if he hit  anything like the the paper towel holder i thought
• 22:00 - 22:30 maybe he did i feel like there was like violence  happening around me i was trying to pee you know   and i feel so vulnerable and there was like a  whirlwind of anger around me and he was like   cursing and he was saying how it was a charity  case i was a little rattled i was trying to   zip up and get out of there as quickly as i could  but it was an interesting thing to sort of witness   it was a little bit like he used to make these  videos a long time ago where he'd be like in the
• 22:30 - 23:00 gym with his shirt off like and he'd be like sort  of like yelling and like super amped up and like   do like a million jumping jacks or something and  you can see the people in the background like what   the crap is this guy doing but it was that like  it was that energy that he did in these shirtless   exercise videos he's a really really talented  painter no he's not going to see this but no   issue with him he's just really  really unhappy that he didn't win
• 23:00 - 23:30 wow mike's painting was definitely the best he's  definitely the best i don't even remember justin's   but justin's a great painter so i can only imagine  it deserved it i remember cesar is having a lot of   stuff in it there's a lot of stuff well painted  a lot of stuff a lot of stuff a lot of anger   cesar santos and around the same time i think this  overlapped and then went on for years after this
• 23:30 - 24:00 really went on until up to like covid when this  kind of ended another venue i taught workshops in   was uh at snow college in ephraim utah and uh  that was just a wonderful experience and it was   great because i will say that i had so many repeat  students year after year in such a warm incredible   community it was honestly the best workshop  environment workshop experience uh i think   i'd ever had and at that point i kind of knew how  to do it in a way that was um effective i think
• 24:00 - 24:30 or most useful to the people going uh to the  workshop basically what i explained before   you figure out like what can you give the people  taking the workshop in those five days how can you   break up your time the only criticism i have there  is they overstuffed the classes i'd have like   8 20 people but a lot like oklahoma people  in utah are like the nicest people imaginable   their whole format and way of teaching a workshop  you know compared to the other ones where
• 24:30 - 25:00 it's like you know it's it's it tends to be sort  of your workshop you know and uh the week is a you   know sort of build as this week sort of studying  with you and to whatever degree it was like that   at snow college but it was part of this event they  have called summer snow which i highly recommend   um really really really recommend it um i did it i  did it maybe four times no three times four times   i can't remember and i will tell you this the  organizers there is a guy brad taggart um adam
• 25:00 - 25:30 larson and and the two of them i think still put  it on they're fantastic if you are anywhere near   uh eve from utah snow college and they bring  in different instructors all the time and i   i couldn't recommend it more highly in terms  of just the experience there and that seemed   you know and i got to know the students there  and everybody had a wonderful time always there
• 25:30 - 26:00 and those uh individuals brad and adam are awesome  and then there's scott allred who i became friends   with he i think i don't know if he runs the  painting department or the figure department   i can't remember his exact title but he was sort  of perfectly affiliated with running snow but he   and i hung out a lot because we both like star  wars we both named scott there's like a real i   don't know if you know this about scots but when  we see each other you know not scott peterson   um but they would have this whole event and so  there would be like five workshops basically going
• 26:00 - 26:30 on five or six maybe and you know you'd  have these breakout groups and every   every day one of the teachers it must have been  five because every day over the course of the   week one of the teachers would have to do a  giant presentation during lunch in their big   auditorium room and uh i don't know how many  it sits i'm so bad at guessing this it could   have been like 200 it might have been 4 000. i  don't know it was a big room and you had to do
• 26:30 - 27:00 like a um slideshow presentation and you know show  your artwork and and kind of talk about your life   your experience making art and you know your  students that were in your class were in the   auditorium but so were all the people at the whole  event so it was like filled with people it was   really crowded and uh and pretty intimidating  i'm gonna tell you my most embarrassing
• 27:00 - 27:30 workshop story in just a  moment but let me get this iris in so there's this one year
• 27:30 - 28:00 at a snow college i don't even know why i'm  telling you this story um so we were about to break for lunch one day and it  happened to be my day to do the presentation in
• 28:00 - 28:30 that big auditorium right so i had to go in there  and you know everyone at the event was going to   pile in you know all the seats would be filled the  stairs up to the seats people would be standing   along uh those uh stair and be on the sort  of wings of the uh not stage but the desk or   whatever in front of the big screen that the  slideshow's happening so everybody's there   and we're about to go uh in for my presentation  we have about like five minutes left
• 28:30 - 29:00 uh in the morning session and uh you know i  drink a lot of coffee i uh i like a good cup of   coffee um i can't call it cup of joe  i just can't i can't i can't do it   so yeah the uh the dark side  of drinking a lot of coffee is   frequent urination it's just a part of  uh a part of the coffee addict's life   and normally i handle that just fine i  just get up and i go to the bathroom and
• 29:00 - 29:30 there's no real problem unfortunately  i also battle another form of addiction   and that is to my phone yes i know many  of us suffer from it i can't look away   especially social media so moments before  i had to go in and do my presentation   i went to the bathroom and like an idiot got  out my phone and i decided to scroll through
• 29:30 - 30:00 instagram and then i finished going the bathroom  i put my phone in my pocket and i go to zip up   and sure enough yes indeed i peed all over my leg  like completely all the way down to my shoe i uh   went over and i scrounged around for some paper  towels and tried to blot it was clear that it   would take more than that so then i tried friction  i tried like vigorously rubbing so that the heat   would would make the water the urine go  away and obviously that didn't didn't work
• 30:00 - 30:30 and so i i only had one choice i went to the sink  and i turned on the water and i just splashed it   like all over myself like up up high all the  way down the other leg down like my entire front   i needed it to be so wet that urine  couldn't be the explanation like a   pipe must have burst he must  have fell in into a manhole   and then i just walked in the room and i gave my  presentation and that was that and i was just wet
• 30:30 - 31:00 nobody nobody said anything and i remained wet  for a while and i'm sure i smelled like a toilet   for the rest of the afternoon while i critiqued  so anyone out there who is present for this   that distinctly recalls the smell of  ammonia that is what happened well you know
• 31:00 - 31:30 i think teaching workshops  i think taking workshops   is worthwhile i think if you're  someone taking a workshop you know i think it's uh just important you go in with certain expectations  you know and i think that's generally true most   most the artists i work with in workshops  go in there knowing what what it is and   are realistic about what they can get out of  it just but i would mostly pay attention to   the process the order in which that artist does  things make sure you really take note of that
• 31:30 - 32:00 try to see figure out their conceptual framework  you know a lot of artists will sort of explain it   you know i would hope and it's  what i i always try to do um   and make sure you come away knowing  what they're thinking about right   i can only assume you're studying with  an artist whose work you really love
• 32:00 - 32:30 so really try to understand are they looking at  shapes abstractly are they bringing that mode of   thought into the painting is that why so-and-so's  brushwork looks the way it does and they have   these beautiful like facets because they're  staying sort of interested in the sort of flat   abstract nature of these shapes are they like me  are they really in this form mode where the first   thought is i want it to look 3d that doesn't mean  you're going to always know what to do with your   marks after the workshop workshops are so short  and over like that but you can at least know
• 32:30 - 33:00 where my mind was you can know the order in which  i did things and you can kind of replicate that on   your own uh and so i think that getting a basic  sense focusing on what their thought process is   and then uh remembering and recording their  sequence the order in which they did things   is gives you a really simple thing to kind  of follow and continue to build on later on
• 33:00 - 33:30 [Music]   you know another thing some other things i would  talk about from the point of view of teaching   workshops if you're somebody who's doing it  apologize a lot if you're running behind as   you're critiquing just apologize to the point of  being annoying it's less annoying overall than the   people in the class thinking that you don't care  or that you're just sort of blowing them off   also i know this is common sense don't take  long lunches especially if you're going out with
• 33:30 - 34:00 a small group of the students don't go out with  them for a long time and come in a half hour late   listen i've been held hostage before where  i couldn't get back because i'm not the one   that drove and i was trying to be polite and so  i've been put in that situation where it happens   and it doesn't feel good and people don't like  it people don't like it when you do that and uh   and so definitely avoid that always be on time i  know it's such common sense but you have no idea
• 34:00 - 34:30 how often i've witnessed that also don't touch  your students ever ever don't ever touch them   in any way it's never okay this is especially  true if you're doing a color workshop and   you need to test color don't put color swatches  on a student's arm don't put a little piece of   paint on them and then lick it off don't  do that i've never done it i'm aware of   that kind of thing happening don't do it it's  creepy it's weird don't do it don't ever do it
• 34:30 - 35:00 when i look over the camera this shirt is  just what am i wearing this is like offensive   i'm going to get flagged this video is going  to be like i have a like a advisory warning seriously why am i wearing this   like microphone can't be like the  fabric won't support it all right
• 35:00 - 35:30 hold on i want this eye to be good i'm going to  stop talking about workshops i have said nothing   useful i'm an idiot let's just paint this eye  the truth is i haven't been able to make a good   video in a while i've been having to like stop  recording all of them because i've just been   spewing i haven't been feeling well and so my i've  been like breaking up in cold sweats and then um i   also just haven't been able to formulate thoughts  so whatever this video is i'm going with it
• 35:30 - 36:00 all right let's put in the pupil
• 36:00 - 36:30 i'm going to zoom in on the painting itself here
• 36:30 - 37:00 all right i'm gonna leave this here  i think it's fine it's a good start
• 37:00 - 37:30 i like the eye and i think the  painting will just be wonderful   anyway i don't know what this video was thank you  for sticking with me this long for what can only   amount to a lot of nonsense about workshops but if  you like my channel and you want to support what i
• 37:30 - 38:00 do here and you want to see better tutorials check  me out at patreon.com or you can go to my website   scottwellfineart.com or if nothing else just  like this video and subscribe to the channel   and in return i promise to never wear this  shirt again i'll see you in the next video
• 38:00 - 38:30 you