Tuesday - Day NINE - the beginning of CRUNCH TIME

Sadly, I am beginning to see the dark, dank bottom of the well.  I am trying to avoid the thought that this is all coming to an end, but it is true.  I only have two more days to paint and one of them involves a lot of photography time (taking photos for the class page on my website).  The day is brilliant, and the water is sparkling so much that you can hardly look at it.  This is a photo of the Emerald Isle leaving for Charlevoix and a Dragon Kite flying over the beach (a painting just CRYING to be painted)

Yesterday afternoon I decided to commit to testing the watercolor paper from the book that I made in Sally's class last session.  Turns out it is desperately hard to use - has to be soaked first, pigment sits on top of the paper, must use wet-on-wet technique, etc.  I gave it the old college try in my standard style.  Not so hot.  So I just whipped through some quick paintings (5 X 7's) doing what the paper would allow me to do and everyone said that were great.  So much for my tight "greeting-card" style.  So today they "took away" my little brushes and made me paint with big brushes on wet paper.  I think I like the result, but "we will know more later".