Well the first day back doing the classes in 2010.We had a few less than expected turn up--the snow stopped Sue-who had to catch up with work as she had been unable to get into work because of the snow!
Val missed the bus and she lives out in the sticks so couldn't get here,
Cath got in a muddle with the trains and phone numbers and Sybila had to go into hospital and her partner John didn't want to come without her!
So that left us with 8 students!
Jan has been quite a few times before
and doesn't seem to get any nerves now-we had Linda come for the first time-her hubby Patrick came to me last October for the first time and made such a stunning painting of Forest Pool that he treated Linda to a gift voucher for her birthday!
All the others, Vikki (Jans daughter) Sam, Gemma ,Lin, Elaine and Gary were all with me for the second time!
We had great fun as usual-everyone got stuck in very quickly with their skies--Elaine chose to do hers in Van Dyke brown so it would be different to Garys--and it worked really well too.
Everyone was amazed by how different they all turned out at each stage--all completly different-but all very stormy!
We had a bit of cussing going on under the breath when it came to using the knife to do the waves!! There is a definate technique with it and until you get the pressure in the right place its hard to get the correct result! Linda seemed to pick it up right away -no problems but some of the others found it a bit harder to start with but all got there in the end!
We took along some of the chocolates and mince pies left over from Christmas as well as the usual biscuits -hoping the students would help eat them-Sam loved the maltesers and Bill helped her find all of those out of the tin-and quite a few of the others went as well during the day, I think after a few classes we will have used them all up!
Elaine and Gary were telling me how they had been painting at home-they have been and bought easels, oils and acrylics and have painted lots of different versions of Mystical Moon-including a daytime one which sounded great!
We will see them again for Winter Wonderland on Feb 13th and Mellow Moods on March 27th
We will see Jan, Vicki and Lin for the new painting subject "Grasses" on Feb 20th
Gemma and Sam are coming to the Birches on May 15th.
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Hi Guys
It's Me the one with the red hair trying to sort my waves out? I did eventually sort my waves out. Thanks for the class everyone was BRILL.
Vicki
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