Gloucester Arts and Crafts School-Day 1

We arrived at Gloucester for the 2 day summer school after an early start on Monday.
Bill had the car loaded and double checked we had not forgotten anything-there was loads of stuff-good job we were only staying overnight-we only had room for a small overnight bag between us by the time we had all the art stuff in the car!
We soon had the classroom set up suitably for the class-and one by one the student came in--Derek was the only chap -he had 8 ladies for painting companions! We had a last minute cancellation-one lady was poorly so couldn't attend.
So with all 9 students ready to start painting my way we got on with it!
The room we had was already used as an art classroom so it was well splattered with paint over the floor and walls-there was also a couple of sinks which made life easy when it came to washing brushes!
Bill set up my stands with pictures outside the room and we had the cards displayed as well-- they went down really well-
The summer school has been running for 27 years and there was all sorts of things going on there from wood turning to water colours, basket making to ceramics.e went to the large dining room for morning coffee and delicious cake, then back for a 2 course lunch and then afternoon tea so the we had plenty of breaks.
People were popping in from time to time to see how the students were getting on and were all amazed at how quick the paintings were coming along!
Derek managed to get some freckles when we did the splattering, but overall everyone kept themselves quite clean!
The results as usual were quite stunning-everyone enjoyed the experience and couldnt wait for the next days class!
As we were finished before time we got the encaustic art equipment out for everyone to have a go-they loved it and did some lovely pics with it.