Workshop Woes

[Julianne Lowman]

Here's another question for you pro's and used-to-be-newbies. How does one feel comfortable signing up for workshops by professional (and in my eyes exhalted) artists? At what point do you attend one of these events and actually admit you think you know enough to take up air space with other artists in such workshops? It may take me 4 hours to do somethig it takes someone else with the proper training 20 minutes, and yet I might actually be pretty good, but until I attend I'll never know. At what point is it appropriate to show yourself in the daylight?

My real fear is that now that I'm actually getting paid to paint portraits, I'll have some instructor who really knows what art is, tell me I'd be a better pancake flipper at IHOP!