Todays Class-Tropical Sunset

We had 2 newbies in class today and also Hannah who had been once before.
Tropical Sunset uses both oil and acrylic paint and it proved to be an interesting painting subject.
To start we did some under painting using acrylic paint,put the canvas outside in the sunshine for a few minutes to dry and then covered that with some white oil paint medium.
Then came the interesting part-putting some colour into the painting-
Each painting gives the artist the chance for their own personality to come out in their picture.You soon find out who is the boldest and who is the more subtle ones!
Pattie lives over the road from us and was painting for the first time-she seemed quite calm and not very nervous at all, Paul had travelled from Shrewsbury as had Hannah and her Nan.
Hannah had been once before to do the Forest Pool painting.
Everyone one laughed when I said we had to turn the paintings upside down to do the reflections of the palm trees , but soon realised it was the easiest way of doing them!
We are seeing them all again soon, Pattie and Paul are coming to do the Birch Trees and Hannah is coming to paint Mellow Moods with either her mum or her Nan.