Grasses class Feb 20th

'Grasses' was a new class subject today and to be honest I thought it would be a quite easy one to do.
But as it turned out it was not to prove as easy as thought!

I think because the original LOOKS quite simple I thought it would be simple to paint!

We had a mixture of people painting today from Pauline and Chris who had been to me over 20 times- through to first timers Wendy and Ann who had travelled from Coventry and stayed at the local Travel Lodge just up the road and our dear friend Lin ( who took the original photo I painted this scene from)
Liz and Vikki couldn't make it due to work commitments and Bev phoned this morning to say she wasn't well so we were down to 9 students.

When everyone arrived it was lovely to hear everyone making friends and having a good chin wag while having a cuppa--one of the students Lin W who was back fro her 3rd time said it was better than having a spa day-it was sooo relaxing!

We used acrylic paint on 12in x 24in chunky box canvas.

Courtney is just 10 years old and came with her nan Alison to the Mystical Moon class last Dec--
she made a beautiful job of today's painting-once I got her to stop blending the colour to much.

We work wet into wet but if you blend the new colour too much into the old colour it will just disappear!
We had some very good sky and water the first time round--great bases for the second coat.The second coat goes on much easier and stays workable for longer.

We had some beautiful results--Lin P remarked that it was relaxing (though taxing at times !!) but good because you didn't think of anything else all the time you were in class.
Chris ( who always adds his own personal touch to his paintings) added a lovely volcano to his painting-which I didn't get chance to get a close up photo of !
He also bought along his ''paint your own'' mug that he had off us for a Christmas pressie-he made a cracking job of personalising it --again I failed to get a photo of it--please bring it next time Chris!

All in all a great day was had by everyone-fantastic results were achieved all round--and we will be seeing everyone again soon!