Judith Mason

We received this from Barbara Moore:Judith Mason Cr e a t i v i t y Workshop
I know that I don’t have to explain who Judith Mason is…...do I?
I have long admired her art, and so was delighted to be able to attend a creativity workshop with her. It was the first time I had met her and found her to be charming, and so supportive of us amateurs. In fact one of the things she particularly said was
that she has come to value amateur artists and support their efforts.
Judith based the creativity workshop on a princess-and-the-frog fairytale—brought up to date with appropriate feminism, where upon visualizing a married life with responsibilities, lots of kids and a chauvinist husband, the otherwise ecologically correct princess dines that night on frog’s legs and preserves her independence!
We were given four tasks, using simple drawing or pastels or painting...anything we liked.
1. Draw a four panel cartoon of the story.
2. Decorate a paper plate with a ”salad” of drawn butterfly wings—taken from a variety of butterflies on a printout provided by Judith.
3. Draw the frog prince morphing from frog to handsome prince in three stages.
4. Draw the princess in her beloved nature environment, using birds, bees, butterflies etc, but humanize her and de-Disney her.
We did all of this in about three hours, and finished off with our own meal of “frogs’ legs” (delicious Woolworths mini chicken kebabs) and champagne (that’s why we had to bring a wine glass!).Our homework is to create a painting of the princess…..should be fun. It was a great left brain morning.Judith is not feeling well, and her drawing workshop will move to September, maybe at AGM.