Still quite wiped out, but here are some thoughts...
We all had a very challenging week.
The class was about light and painting from life. It was about really striving for accuracy in your forms. It was about teaching your eyes to "see".
We painted each day for about 6 hours - 3 hours per model. We had two wonderful models - Les and Cindy who held their poses all week with amazing professionalism.
We painted under natural north light coming from two high windows on each side of the classroom's north wall - no other illumination.
Bill lectured and did some work on a demo throughout the week. Bill went from student to student through the day - repeatedly giving advice and instructions.
We all learned "The Painter's Dance" as we struggled to manipulate hue, value and chroma on the fly - stepping back and looking, mixing a color to match an area that we saw, moving forward and making 1-3 strokes, stepping back and looking, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat...
The first day, I stuck to monochrome and really tried to get the forms right. I was physically standing closer to the model than I have ever been (lightbulb!) - the light modelled the form perfectly.
Here are our models, Les and Cindy from my position - Cindy's eyes were closed in this shot, but were open in the pose.