It’s been a busy and productive week. Most of Monday was spent watercolor painting for my homework assignment of “waves”,  and I was pleased with this, my second try that day of seeing what could happen when you just throw paint at a wet sheet of paper and see what happens when you let it blend itself (with a little help tipping and spraying more water.) I won’t be showing you the first try!!! After that first part dries, you add the finishing touches. I see a few places that could use a little more finishing, but my instructor was happy with it, so I guess it is done!

Tues in class we started working on architectural forms and I painted the shed and horse that are the basis for my quilt “Cloudy With A Chance of Rain” (See Gallery here on the website) I used the same reference photo for the shed, but added a different horse. OK, but nothing to write home about! Thursday in class I started this castle from a photo I took in Wales. I can’t remember the name of the castle, but it didn’t have all this foliage around it. That is purely the result of using the aformentioned throwing paint method. Way more yellow got into the sky than I would have liked, but it’s OK, part of the fun of this technique! Yesterday at home, I developed the foreground.

Not too much work this week on the quilt. I’m not happy with some of the grass fabrics, so it may be time for some shopping!