Thanks to Jay Strotkamp for all the photos below! 

Some of the artists at Mary Linda and Jay Strotkamp's garden party. If you're wondering why Jacob has a neck brace on, he'd just had surgery and this was the first week he'd been able to paint in quite a while -- which he says was better than any other therapy!

Paulette, Jane, and Lezanne at the party.

Jane Fulton once again with one of her masterpieces. 

Camille Przewodek painting some palm trees. It's amazing how much energy she has since she taught a workshop the week after the show as well!

I'm not sure who this is, but I hope the tide was going out!

I wouldn't be able to tell who this is from this view, except that the painting style is so distinct it could be no one else but Marcia Burt. I just lover her paintings -- especially her incredible designs. Few artists can get such good edges with acrylics painting outdoors!

Here's Arturo Tello painting Billyo O'Donnell, painting me, painting Calvin Liang. Calvin was the only rational one, since he chose something interesting to paint -- a palm tree.

Morgan Samuel Price

Here I am chatting with my friend Mary Linda (whom is kind enough to let me stay with her and her husband, Jay) and Calvin Liang in the background. I was so excited that Calvin was going to be in the show that I stalked him all week, stealing as many of his secrets as I could! Unfortunately, he said that he could only tell them to me in Chinese, so it will be a while before I can get them translated. One interesting thing I learned in talking with Calvin was how he was trained in China. Apparently a lot of the Chinese schools back then were set up on the Russian model, with the students working for a long time on plaster casts in charcoal, then after they'd reached a certain level onto the human figure in charcoal, and then, only after they'd mastered the basics, onto full color and paint. When I saw so many good Chinese artists, I suspected as much, since it is very similar to the program I went through at the American Academy of Art. Unfortunately, like my own school, Calvin told me that such a program no longer exists at his school in China, having been replaced by more modern styles. 

Carole Cook painting some palm trees.

Albert Handell in his trademark orange suspenders.

Morgan Samuel Price doing a beauty!

Not everyone in the park is interested in painting. This man, for example seems to have found an enormous potato chip lying on the beach and is trying to get it home on his bicycle. 

My good friend Saim Caglayan signing his Quick Draw. Amazing what he can do in just two hours! Just think what his hourly wage must be! 

Ray Roberts and Peggi Krol-Roberts painting a model in the Park. You've got to check out their website, they are truly awesome!

Here's a photo Bob Wierma took of me painting the day after the show was over.