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Day 2 of art camp for keeners or 'Advanced Individual Studies' at Fleming College's Haliburton School of the Arts.

Starting at 9am each day, we have a 'lecture' for about an hour or more. Today, it circled around naming exhibitions and keeping bios up to date and accurate. In the afternoon at 1pm there is another presentation, usually part of the assignment for the week. This year, we are interviewing each other and being interviewed to practice the necessary skill of talking about our art.

There are 16 of us this year, as usual. Someone is always strolling around the two studio rooms talking to a fellow artist about their work . We learn from each other as well as from John Leonard our 'instructor'. By the end of the long day, most are exhausted. Today I was at the studio from 8am until 7:30 pm. But the time flies!

The Convocation Hall show is shaping up as new paintings are completed then wired and hung. There will also be a second show consisting of an artistic skills challenge: In an non objective small work composed of approx 16 shapes, paint in 2 areas by value in low intensity and include 1 luminous shape within one of the areas. To many, this is a challenge in progress--Due Friday.

Tomorrow I will be starting the second larger painting and for a change will be working my same style but on a white textured background instead of the black. Let's see what happens!