Showing posts with label day seven. Show all posts
Showing posts with label day seven. Show all posts

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Day Seven of Twelve Days in Guatemala

We painted the scene I showed you last post. Mine needs lots of work, if I was going to improve it, which I probably won't. The boats are too large and I don't have my middle tone green painted in yet, but the light was changing so fast. I needed binoculars to see it well from where I was standing, across the little bay. Not one of my favorites. So, just good practice!
"Across the Inlet at Hotel Atitlan" - 9" x 12" oil on canvasboard
After lunch we watched Kaye paint some garden flowers, some joined in, others watched. I watched anytime I could, cause I learn best that way. This is the group watching and painting in the gardens.

And this is the painting I did of some potted plants. I liked this one! It came out OK, because the sun cooperated a little more.
"Hotel Atitlan Plants" - 9" x 12" oil on canvasboard
The good thing about this place is I could get on the internet, finally. It is crazy when you are away from your peeps! Hurricane Gustav was going on, and I started to wonder about the trip home...with all that weather in the way. The Democratic National Convention was going on and Obama gave his speech which I got to see and hear, so I didn't feel so isolated anymore. Lots going on in the world is harder to take if you are in a third world country, but CNN in English was on every place that had a TV.

Adventures in Pyrography

 Last year about this time, I purchased a cheapo woodburning set and some little wood pieces and tried my hand at woodburning.  I made a few...