Day 6

     I had a long skinny little canvas so I thought I’d try painting a long skinny little kitten. Here is my first attempt"


And then I did too much <sigh>


So next I tried doing a water color kitty, this time on water color paper:
And another:

Day 5

     On Day 5 I took my crazy cat and started covering him over with leftover paint.  In the process I noticed that his eyes still remained, peeking out from underneath the paint. This I thought was cool, so I scratched in some whiskers and thus became my painting of a jungle cat.  Amazing how a looser painting can reinvent itself!

Jungle Cat

Day 4

Here is my art work on day 4: 

A crazy 1 eyed cat. Did I mention it's harder than it looks? So here's my attempt at rehabilitating my cat:

Things weren't getting better so I reminded myself that the goal was only to paint a painting a day; I didn't need to like the painting.......

Day 3

Here is another cat attempt done at home:


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Day 2

     Also at art class we experimented with painting acrylic like water colors by painting cats.  It's harder than it looks and somewhat unpredictable to know how the paint will flow and blend.....

30 Day Painting Challenge

For the month of June I painted a painting a day.  My first day challenge was met easily as I did it in art class.

June 1

Our wonderful teacher, Kathy Taylor, from Studio 6020, taught us how to make an acrylic painting resemble an oil painting this effect was enhanced by rubbing the finished painting with cold wax.

I’m a Mushroom

In June we travels back to Nicaragua to see Tessa.  This time we took Joel with us.  It was a great to see Tessa and we had a wonderful time, though Joel was not a fan of the jungle climate or its bugs.  We brought home souvenirs to remember our trip an give as presents.  We brought home:

Coffee

Rum

and Hammocks.

And I also brought home a very nasty and painful fungus* that has attacked my hands and feet.  It was so painful that I was hobbling to walk and I hobbled myself to the dermatologist who then prescribed me an anti fungal.  He said that I should take care of the problem, but that if may take 2 weeks before I feel any relief.  (Augh!)  I’m beginning to think that Joel was right about the jungle.

*By way of full disclosure, the dermatologist said that this fungus is everywhere and that I could have picked it up anywhere, but really, if one is going to have to suffer a painful, burning fungus, at least one should be able to say one got it in an exotic locale, so I say I got it while visiting Nicaragua.