I loved a palette knife floral that Ann Feldman did a couple of months ago and asked her when she would be teaching another class for palette knife. She didn't have any until Spring she said, but would do a special one if I could get enough people. So I rounded up artist friends and all nine of us had a great day with Ann.
Ann did a landscape demo first thing in the morning and gave us a photo as a reference for our painting after the demo.
This week I touched up my two oil paintings I had done with Ann in her workshop.
Below is my landscape using the reference. We drew a rough outline in paint with a small brush first, then started our painting with the palette knife.
10" x 8" on canvas sheet.
After lunch, Ann and I set-up three still life florals for the artists to choose from. I had brought all the vases and flowers to use for the still life. Ann did another demo and then we started painting our own florals from whichever set-up we chose.
My choice to paint.
10" x 8" on Canvas sheet.
As far as the weather...considering the dilemma in Buffalo, New York we are extremely lucky in Chicago. Here are a couple of photos of our first little dusting of snow. One at night when it was first falling, and one the nest day from my kitchen window.
The back yard (click on photo to see more clearly)
And finally here is my new fish tank on the chalk painted(and loaded with three coats of hand-applied wax!)table.
Real plants and two fish. A Fancy-Tail Goldfish and a small Koi.
Did you know you should only put one inch of fish for each gallon of water? So I have about 6" of fish in a ten gallon tank. In a year I will need a 20 gallon tank!
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