by Gerry Furgason | Jan 28, 2025 | TEACHING PAINTING CLASSES, Artists and Friends
There has been no need for me to spend untold finances on purchasing first-class world tour tickets because friends and students brought the world to me. When Heidi spoke of living in Africa and her great love for the children there, I stood beside her and saw their...
by Gerry Furgason | Mar 14, 2024 | TEACHING PAINTING CLASSES
In time we were able to move our work area to the first floor student lunchroom, but in the first years that I taught Oil Painting in the Adult and Continuing Education Classes as part of the Jefferson County program at Seneca High School, our classroom was...
by Gerry Furgason | Mar 12, 2024 | TEACHING PAINTING CLASSES
Sometime during the thirty-five years of my being an art instructor to adults, I became teacher, preacher, and psychologist to some of the one hundred and fifty or so individuals I worked with each week. I did not ask to become a confidant or a keeper of their...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | TEACHING PAINTING CLASSES
Before a session with s new oil painting student begins, I explain that each should select a subject, that when finished as a painting, would be nice to hang on a wall at home or in an office. I met Anna Marie at a Senior Citizen Center. Her choice...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | TEACHING PAINTING CLASSES
While pinochle players sat around their card tables at Senior House on Thursday mornings, oil painters were hard at work at easels in a private room. I was a new art teacher at Senior House and was told works would be displayed at an annual art show held...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | TEACHING PAINTING CLASSES
When one of my students mentioned receiving a commission to paint an outhouse, I smiled, not because I knew the work would make an attractive addition to someone’s bathroom wall but because it brought back an episode from my childhood. My sister Jean...
