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Empty your mind of all that you know so you really listen to your instructor.
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Mari, I cannot possibly underscore how salient this statment is to me. I cannot begin to tell you how many workshops I have attended, where the students argue with treasured advice, excuse their many reasons for not wanting to do the work, or who have some odd agenda that fails to include learning. This may be a bit off track, but here are the two main things:
1. Don't sign up for a workshop with someone who doesn't paint better than you.
2. Now that you are in the workshop, listen and try what you are taught. You might not decide it is something that you will stay with, but give it a try. The other students are there to listen to the instructor, not to you. If they were, they'd have signed up for
your workshop instead.