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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Gayle Kabaker is a painter, writer, teacher and visual storyteller Draw With Us Tomorrow — Two Free Portrait Sessions Free, live, and open to everyone — noon and 6pm ET tomorrow Gayle Kabaker Jul 8   READ IN APP   Hi everyone - I hope you’re having a good summer! I’ve been drawing weekly with Chloe Briggs and Drawingisfree.org for a few months. She has been doing these free portrait sessions for years and I can’t believe I didn’t know about until recently. Now - I am hooked, and try to plan my Mondays at noon EST around it. I look at this hour as my weekly drawing class. I’m not worrying about making a good drawing or composition, I am simply practicing. And lo and behold, the more I draw the more every once in a while it actually looks a bit like the person I am drawing. Paint What You Love is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid Paint What You Love is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid Jennifer Orkin Lewis and I are hosting our own version of this, it’ll be a little different than Chloe’s, and we still stay after each session for a little bit if you have questions you’d like to ask us. 2 FREE portrait drawing session TOMORROW! July 9th at noon and 6pm EST. HERE are the links to register AND get the Zoom link. Please let me know if you have any issues. Registration link for Noon EST REGISTER for noon portrait drawing 6pm EST 6pm Portrait drawing Portraits are hard! I taught a workshop here at my place a few weeks ago and I had a model pose for us both days. Day 1 was face only and draw whats around you and Day 2 was face and body and whats around you. I explained that I am not the teacher for how to make an accurate portrait. Yes I can paint portraits and they can be very hard work - often assisted by Photoshop tweeking if I do not need an original painting. What I can teach very well, is how to HAVE FUN drawing and painting faces. Below is our model Christina. Does it look like her? Not enough for anyone who knows her to say - oh that’s Christina! But I know that the more I draw her the more chances they will start to look like her and honestly - my goal is really just to have fun. Examples I showed the group of the same face painted different ways. We had a wonderful few days - and even an unexpected rainstorm that sent us scrambling into my studio and then Peter’s studio didn’t wreck things. It was a wonderful weekend. A few spots are left in my Leland MI workshop on August 17th Aug. 17 A few spots are left for our weeklong France workshop! June 1 - 8, 2027 FRANCE Jennifer and I are teaching a Zoom workshop! Donation based- pay what you can. Can’t make it live? sign up for the video only. Zoom workshop July 25 People, Pools & Landscapes : A Hockney Inspired afternoon A pool, a landscape and what we love about David Hockney. All levels and ages are welcome. Saturday, July 25, 1:00–3:00 PM EST The Zoom link will be sent the day before class. Please check your email. People, Pools & Landscapes: A Hockney-Inspired Afternoon with Gayle & Jennifer This summer, join Gayle and Jennifer for an afternoon inspired by the color, pattern, and light of David Hockney — one of the most influential painters of the modern era, and a long-time touchstone for both of us. Gayle will guide you through painting a figure in or near water: how to simplify a pool into pattern and rhythm, and how a graphic, uncluttered figure can hold its own against a bold, textured background. Jennifer will take you into landscape — saturated color, flattened shadow shapes, and the kind of bold color-blocking that turns a hillside or garden into something almost electric. You’ll come away with two new ways of seeing: one for water and people, one for land and light — and the freedom to bring them together in your own work. All levels welcome. No painting experience necessary, just a willingness to play with color. To read more … As always- I love hearing from you. Hope to ‘see’ you someplace soon. XO Gayle Paint What You Love is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid Paint What You Love is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid You're currently a free subscriber to Paint What You Love. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. Upgrade to paid   Like Comment Restack   © 2026 Gayle Kabaker 13 NORMAN RD, Ashfield MA 01330 Unsubscribe

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​Wednesday, July 8, 2026​ Real, messy hope delivered to your inbox daily, from Good Good Good. Sponsored by In the headlines... 🏙️ Mass evacuations took place in Manhattan after a high-rise was found to be unstable. No injuries have been reported, and the mayor praised “first responders for quickly arriving at the site and ... New Yorkers for reacting calmly and with urgency.” 🇸🇾 Explosions rocked Syria’s capital during French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit. “Nothing can smother the aspiration of Syrian women and men to live in a fully sovereign, safe, pluralistic, and united Syria,” Macron posted on X. ⚡ A new update to Portland, Oregon’s electricity rates will increase bills for data centers and lower bills for residents. Today’s Top Good News Story Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin announce a handshake agreement on a balanced $125.8 billion 2027 budget. 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