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I have been enjoying this small weekly acrylic painting online class in my Robert Bateman 110 lb, recycled paper sketchbook. The challenge has been how fast the paint is soaked up and dries on paper as well as having a limited range of colours and not the colours used. Doing these practice and learning paintings in a sketch book takes out the preciousness. You can see how the paper has buckled with the wet paint. At some point, I will put heavy weights on this book to try and smooth out some of the buckling. Top left: #9 A Walk In The Yarrow, #10 Blueberry Field In Autumn, #11 Cedar Waxwing, #12 Clifftop Resident
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These small 6" x 6" paintings are from a weekly acrylic painting challenge I signed up for with gift money from my Mom (thanks!) and am enjoying the challenge. It is certainly different painting in a sketchbook versus a canvas and using different colours. I painted these while in Mexico so even the rate of drying was different. This year long challenge will keep me painting in acrylic and continue learning. From top right - #5 "Purple Martin", #6 "Last Rays", #7 "Snowy Sunrise", #8 "Hare E Popper"
We were invited to Norva's beautiful home (Thank you!!) for what is my last Mexico group plein air. It has been a wonderful season with many new art friends coming and leaving. My oil painting supplies are packed and there would not be enough time for an oil painting to dry so I went with my small sketchbook of Mexico memories to add a couple more. The view of the lagoon with it's moving water hyacinth was mesmerizing. It almost completed moved to give a clear view of the water with little islands floating by. I had time to do a quick sketch of the new view from where I was sitting. The first photo below was of the lagoon when we arrived, the second was about half way through our time and my sketch and photo are of the view as we were leaving. I was sitting low on the opposite side of the beautiful pool when it was almost cleared, simply amazing! Our groups works in progress is on the bottom right. Again, interesting and varied views by this smaller group. People have headed home and the weekly art group is getting smaller. We were lucky enough to get rides from Amy and Marg so the oil painters could bring their equipment. I love the photo below of Amy painting the scene before her! It was interesting painting the boat in the distance as the boat and dock interested me. The boat kept floating and moving and turning around as it was not tied onto the dock as I had thought.  Waiting Panga
8" x 10" plein air, oil on canvas pad #20004425 Nine of us met at 8:30 am to paint in this beautiful little restaurant. It had a lot of interesting things tucked in nooks and crannies and the artists soon found what interested them. Looking at the variety of subjects, you'd think we weren't at the same place. Below is the photo of the paintings in progress taken before people had to leave or decided to order breakfast. It was a wonderful morning and we were all home before lunch with full bellies! I loved this surprise hanging in the outdoor dining area and decided that was my subject.  "Delightful Surprise"
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