Day 3 - Brenda Swenson Workshop.

This is a vignette (I think that's how it is spelled)...no paint in the corners, and it must touch top, bottom and sides... yikes... too many rules for me to keep up with.

I really botched the pine cone drawing, I got so lost it was beyond fixing, but I painted it anyway... it looks like a pine cone if you get far enough away from it. I like how the leaves turned out. I picked them from the trees in Cheap Joe's yard here at the Studio.

Oct11Art

Moved to the bathroom counter and got a bit better picture of my page today. I still have problems with glasses and perspective... guess I need to do Brenda's 75 drawings a day challenge.

Tuesday - Brenda Swenson Workshop

Painting outside the box, I used watercolor paper for this one. The TomBow pen that didn't move at all on my mixed media paper ran like crazy on this paper. The more I messed with this the worse it got, I thought, but it got a pretty nice critique from Brenda... so it's growing on me.

Oct10Art

Sorry this looks so 'yellow' those pesky twisty light bulbs the gubmint is forcing us to use cast a horrid yellow light on everything. I am exhausted from a day of drawing and seeing and learning... this is a great class and I'm really enjoying it.

The staff at Cheap Joe's were SO NICE, helping everyone lug their 'stuff' in and just being helpful all day today... it helped make this a workshop experience unlike any other I've attended.  I will definitely be taking a workshop with Cheap Joe in the future... someone said they were treating us like royalty... and that's exactly what they did.

Brenda Swenson laughing and chatting during a break today. She did a great job, in spite of suffering from jet lag on her trip from California to North Carolina.

Oct09Art

Took me about five hours to drive to Boone, nice trip, great weather and good roads. Debo still hasn't arrived yet... hopefully, she'll be here soon.
Not as much color here yet, more here in Boone than I saw on the way here... the mountains are beautiful, unfortunately no pull off points where I could stop to take pictures.

Michael's Birthday Card

Did this marsh painting for a friend's birthday card. It finally arrived so now I can post it online, I didn't want to publish it before my friend got it. It's on a 4x6 piece of watercolor paper 300 lbs.

Oct08Art

Beau taking a nap, and me taking a break from packing and doing laundry.  All the art supplies (except this journal) are loaded in the car, my suitcase and dopp kit will get loaded up tomorrow morning.  I'm planning to head north after breakfast.  Tonight hockey, exhibition game, season starts next Friday.  I don't know if I'll be able to post every day next week, but I try to.  I'm looking forward to the trip and to spending a week doing art all day long.

Oct07Art

We went to staples tonight and got Ron a web camera, then we downloaded skype and tested a video chat, so that we can chat with each other while I'm in NC next week... I know we're late to the party on this... but it is really cool and I'm looking forward to using this instead of a plain phone call.
Got a rolling cart to make it easier to lug all my art supplies around.

Oct06Art

We have these gorgeous hibiscus planted on the walkways at my office, they are all different colors, but I like the yellow ones the best... maybe because yellow is my favorite color.

Oct05Art

Very sad to hear about Steve Jobs tonight.... it will be interesting to see if Apple can continue to be an innovative powerhouse now that their founder is gone. 
My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.

Oct04Art

Packing up at work, while I'm in NC next week, they will be moving me to a new location. Same floor, just down the hall from where I am now. So I'm packing all my stuff into boxes, and labeling everything so hopefully it'll all be there for me when I get back. I'm also packing up all my painting gear for my trip... I need a pack horse for all this 'stuff'... and that doesn't even include my clothes, computer, iPad, and camera bag and extra lenses.

Oct03Art

We don't actually have any leaves like this in Charleston... but I'm hoping to see some in NC next week.

Oct02Art

Football season... we had football weather this weekend, nice warm days and cool nights. Fall is one of my favorite times of year. We don't have much color in the trees yet, but I'm definitely enjoying the cool weather... we even turned the A/C on low LOL.

Oct01Art

My nails are very thin, once they reach a certain length they are doomed. When I was a little girl I used to clip my grandmother's nails and toe nails for her. Her nails were very thick, I thought when I got old like her mine would be like hers.... hasn't happened so I guess it never will.