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>We’re going on vacation!

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These are from my class yesterday but my mind wasn’t really into it…

The hubby, dog and I are going to Florida Sunday for a week’s vacation in Gulf County where dogs are permitted on the beach all the time… I can’t wait to eat the fresh seafood (Tennessee, as you may be aware, is landlocked), and walk along the beaches, explore the water, take photos of sunsets, and etc. I also look forward to testing my hand at some plein air watercolor paintings and will try my first acrylics, too, in that low-pressure environment, I think.

I have a few books from the library to bring down on acrylic painting, and have learned quite a lot on how to set them up from others in the class who often paint in acrylics instead of watercolors.

Don’t get me wrong, watercolors are nice but I think I’m too rigid to feel too comfortable with them and may have more success with acrylics. From what I understand they are more forgiving. Besides, I have that starter set from my kit. Might as well use it, right?

Well, off I go… wish me luck!

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>Margot’s Opus

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A lovely woman I paint with on Thursdays, Margot Baeder, has been painting this European Abbey for several weeks now. She has attended to every single detail possible in this painting and we all celebrated when, yesterday, she declared it was completed. It is breathtakingly beautiful and just sitting near her as she worked on it, I learned a lot. I hope someday that I can paint like that!

She painted this in acrylics.