Pandemic Painting

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

We believe artists are perhaps some of the most adaptable humans on the planet. The recent upset of everything we knew put a fine point on this. Every artist/instructor we know lost their ability to meet with students and teach in person. Our galleries were closed and exhibition openings were cancelled. However, it will take more than an international pandemic to stop the great creative engine of the human spirit. That much we have seen.

Many of the artist/instructors we know had new teaching venues and webinars up and running within the first weeks or month of the social and economic shutdown. While most of us already had an internet gallery or sales presence online, we found that setting up a professional teaching site which is truly interactive was another mountain to climb. We all grabbed the tools on hand, finding that the best platform for interactive online teaching for us turned out to be the same one the world has turned to for just about everything else - Zoom.

We took things …