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This was done in France when I was teaching a workshop at La Petite Ferme, owned by my friend Jacqueline Tilkin, she had made this farm into the most charming place that had room for 20 people to sleep for bed and breakfast. But, she had painted all her chairs in primary colors, plus green, black, and white. We liked them so much because they were a very shiny enamel. So we took them out into the yard where the sunlight could hit them, found a bunch of vases, jars, and set up a number of still lifes. I have a series of blue, red, green, and black chairs that I painted.

Sheila Parsons has been a professional artist and workshop instructor since 1976. She owns and operates Sheila Parsons� Art-Ventures LLC a travel/study painting company which offers classes all across the USA and in many foreign countries. The daughter of an artist and musician she was always surrounded by art and artists and decided very young that she would be a painter and teacher of painting. She received her masters in art from the prestigious Pratt Institute in New York and has studied since then with the greats in the watercolor field. Her mentor, Milford Zornes NA, AWS, NWS tutored her in both painting and living as a traveling artist teacher. Most of her paintings are done on location or from sketches she has done in the...