Todays Class"African Dream"

I decided to take 3 different paintings to the class today. All using the same colours, all on the same theme.
All very contemporary paintings,I wanted to see how everyone would interpret what they saw, and boy was it interesting!!!!.
After having 2 last minute cancellations and having just 5 in class I couldn't wait to get started on African Dream.
Only one student-Colette wanted to do the painting on an 'upright' canvas-everyone else wanted to do the landscape one .
While we were painting Bill framed Oliver's and Colette's Summer Day painting from the last class.
It was such an interesting class to do--acrylic is sooo different to oil to use-and everyone who attended today had used oil with me.
Everyone interpreted the paintings differently today. Mandy got her first coat of paint on her canvas and it looked brilliant, didn't really need a second coat!
Everyone else let their first coat dry and then built up the layers afterwards.This was the time to take out the brush strokes, and add more definition of distant hills etc!
After we all sat down, having a cup of tea and coffee, away from the pics we all were able to pick up different things in the paintings-for example-Mandy didn't need to do anymore to her painting-it was great as it was!
Jan's needed a little water in front of it(sent Bill home for the special interference paint to do the water-good job its only a few hundreds yards away from the room!)
Barbra made a beautiful job of her painting but we all felt a little water in the front of her painting would enhance it also-so she added some too!!
Then after sitting down and looking at his pic--Oliver wanted some water in the foreground too.
They all used the gold and red interference paint and what a difference it made, shame it dosent show up in the paintings-they all look a lot redder than in real life.
Unfortunatly none of the pictures show up as good in the photos as they really are!
Its always the way with the red and orange paint, it just dosent photograph well!!
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Had a lovely suprise when I got back after the class--''Acacia Tree'' has sold!
Bill had given it the final coat of varnish this morning, so it will be ready to post on Tuesday Morning for delivery on Wdnesday.
All of my paintings get 3 coats of varnish to protect them.
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