So this week we had Open Studio instead of a structured session. A few brought in their finished fruit in the basket from the Limited Palette class last week:

Click on the photo to see all of the picture as Gallery option in our website cuts things off sometimes. From left to right the limited palette fruit in baskets are Lisa, Terri, Lynn, Brenda and Cindy. Also Jan, also using the same limited palette created these four ladies! She’d tweaked it a bit since last week so brought it in to show. Also in the fruit in baskets photo the pink “bowl” on the left is an experiment of Lisa’s where she took 3/4 of a 30-egg flat and turned it into papier mache and used a cooked flour / cornstarch / vinegar glue so it is completely biodegradable.

Janice brought in her spring flowers, the flowers are Crystal her dog’s footprints! Brenda is working on a new painting featuring doors. And Kathryn is painting her dog (her husband calls her Carmen Miranda) with a bowl of limes in front of her. She said a lot of her work features her dog!

Jan painted over a painting she wasn’t happy with and plans to do one of her colourful cat portraits on it! Kimmer is hard at work adding an Egret to her collage project that she started in class a few weeks ago. Terri is adding paint to her baking soda & glue relief that Doug taught us. Of course it is Chica!

Doug is working in watercolours on a dog portrait, seems to be a theme this week! Karen is doing another long panel piece! And Kim is working on a landscape.

Joy just joined us again today for the balance of the season and was playing around with coloured pencil and watercolours. Janice is making a shell mobile and Lynn just whipped off this little seascape in less than an hour (much less!)!

Lisa spent the session Zentangling. Here is a more finished Egret by Kimmer and Brenda’s blue / teal door / window painting further along!

So much variety in what everyone chose to work on today during open studio! Great to see!

Next week we plan to have a demo by Brenda involving creating texture with a glue gun! More info to come by email and here soon!