Greetings from the mountains of West Texas

chispas wrote

on 28 Jan 2011 5:51 PM

I am a retired analyst from the Jungian dream work school returning to painting after a 45 year absence. I was going to be a art therapist, actually attending school at University of Caifornia, Santa Cruz with one of the founders of the Gestalt Inst. in San Francisco, Janie Rhyne.

I started out at the Academy of Art in San Francisco before it got famous and expensive in the early 60s using the GI Bill. Eventually I ended up in Santa Cruz and my degree aspirations drifted to family therapy, out of the mundane need to earn a living and support a family.

Now retired from family therapy after 35 years, I write music reference books, conduct a dream forum where people can discover the meaning of their dreams - now I want to paint again before the muse is buried.

Forty-five years is a long time to be away from painting - Liqitex is the only acrylic paint  can remember - so I need to catch up with what is new. So, forgive my ignorance with the new technology. I will be asking a few questions.

Happy Trails

valeriemalley wrote

on 28 Jan 2011 7:08 PM

Welcome, chispas, I think you will find artist daily both welcoming and helpful.  Forty-five years is a goodly passage of time, but looking back I'm sure it seems as if it has flown by. 

Liquitex is the paint I use mainly, but I've learned from others on-site of new acrylic paints in the market now that have an extended drying time -  Attelier (SP), I think is one Golden may be another.  And Windsor Newton has a line 'Windsor Newton Artists Acrylics', which boasts no colour shift from painting colour to drying colour, we are just starting to get them in Canada.

Look around the site and enjoy.