Muses Have Lunch at the Verandah!

We had lunch at the Cafe Verandah on Thursday afternoon to celebrate my birthday.  Lots of delicious food and then delicious chocolate desserts prepared by Rosie and Rose at my house following lunch.

Muses Cut Up! ...Wycinanki

Patty

 Rose

 Rosie

 Theresa

 Barb

We celebrated the holiday season by creating Wycinanki's!  Wycinanki is the paper cutting craft of Poland.  The designs are created by folding the paper and cutting out the shapes from 2 layers of paper with an x-acto knife- you end up with a symmetrically balanced design.  The Polish like to do what they call the "tree of life" so we decided to adapt this idea and do Christmas trees.  We had a lot of fun.

Patty's Yupo Painting

This is a painting created by Patty.  It was painted on YUPO paper - a new synthetic surface that was created for the printing industry.  Many artists enjoy painting on YUPO today because of the beautiful way the paint mixes on the surface of the paper because it is not  absorbed into the paper and lays on the top.  This is a lovely painting and beautifully demonstrates the possibilities of painting on YUPO.

PAINTING PEONIES

Theresa

Barb

Patty

Rose

Rosie

We did a lesson one Thursday afternoon on pouring paint so we all painted from the same drawing - as you can see - they all turned out very differently!  We had a lot of fun!

IN THE CLOUDS

We had a lesson in painting clouds one Thursday afternoon from Michelle on how to paint clouds.  We projected a photograph on the computer monitor and proceded!  I don't know which painting belongs to which person, so will label them next Thursday when they are here to identify them.  This was a lot of fun and we should do clouds more often!

THE FINAL CRYSTAL BOWL PAINTINGS

 

Rose

Barb

Rosie

Theresa

Patty

These are the final paintings of the crystal bowl project which was a lesson in lifting paint. We used the tutorial developed by Watercolor Workshop member Susan Roper. Thanks again, Susan, it was a great lesson. Our bowls were beautifully painted and everyone thought they learned a lot with this lesson.

TIMED VISUAL EXERCISE IN OIL - "TURNING LEAF" PAINTING

                                               Michelle                                                    

Rosie

Theresa

                                        

Barb

Rose

Yesterday, The Muses did a very interesting exercise in oil. We set up a still life in the middle of the room that looked pretty good from any angle and then covered it up. We had 2 wine glasses (different), and Turning Leaf wine bottle and 4 corks. After setting up our oil paint...s, etc., we uncovered the still life and stared at it for 10 minutes, trying to memorize the details, the spatial relationships, the shapes, and the colors the best we could. When the 10 minutes were up, we covered the still life and began the painting. We painted for 1 hour before we uncovered the still life. It was amazing how well everyone did. I am posting the WIP paintings after 1 hour.  The finished paintings will be posted when completed.