Everyone learned to carve their own rubber stamps today. Despite the challenge of stamping onto the textured watercolor paper in our journals, the designs were beautiful. I was really impressed (pun intended) with the work. After lunch, Jessica did a lesson on drawing and coloring adobe houses and chili peppers. I worked a bit more...
After a slightly nerve wracking morning dealing with a dead battery in the rental car... I spent most of the day in the classroom. Before lunch, we worked on learning how to paint Santa Fe skies. I, of course, added a little story about a red balloon and a flock of birds. After lunch, I...
New meaning to Hump Day? And so we started... A slight typo, but perhaps more accurate.There were thirty of us and we plunged into the basics of drawing, by examining our tools and our lunch. :-) We took a short field trip to explore the neighborhood. I was asked how I did the gray...
It's after midnight and I am exhausted beyond belief. It was the most fabulous day- the sun came out and the day was so beautiful. We spent the morning at the Old Pecos Ruins. "Does this ladder make my butt look fat?" Christine Halaburka used the Kachina from my Tangles of...
A much better holiday for today (is Friday the 13th a holiday yet?) I got a quick visit to a Trader Joe's today! Yes, my first. I have to go back and explore. What a cool place... Murals and cool chalkboard art everywhere... The crow is 3-D! And I love the graphics on...
Slept very late, had a lovely lunch with Jessica- each of us talking nonstop... Checked out the amazing Community Center where we will have our classes. And got a brief tour of Santa Fe in the pouring rain. Another rainbow. :-) I finished a journal page I had quickly roughed in last night. The couple...
