The first time I got up on Sunday morning it was a 3:40am. Why? To drop Ebby & a friend off at the gas station where she met another friend and her mom. Why? To drive 45 minutes to the Natick Mall. Why? New Direction, their favorite band, was doing a CD signing and only the first 600 people in line got a wristband to get into the signing. They waited in line outside for 3 hours and then inside for another 6 hours...and they did it. They met the "boys", got autographs , gave them handmade trinkets and exchanged a few words and eye contact.
Ebby declared it the best day of her life.
Meanwhile, I went home and sort of fell back to sleep for a couple of hours. By 8:45 I was on the road. I picked up a couple of my painting buddies and drove to my cousin Penny's house for our Bloom True painting group.
There's lots of eye candy at Penny's house... Snowdrops in a Lark Rodrgues vase
Very cool black and white lamp & shade
Penny and her daughter Audrey are quite the talented tandem.
Stained glass window handmade by Pen
Amazing oil painting by Audrey
Collection of hearts displayed on a stone shelf on the stone fireplace
After our house tour, we set up our painting space. I used the fish-eye lens on my OlloClip to get this shot
We watched a few of Flora's lessons, browsed the Bloom True Flickr group, and oh...we painted☺.
Some of Penny's paintings, in various stages:
Here's Lynn, hard at work:
Lynn had 5 canvases with her and she gave one to my mom to work on. Here's the result:
Pretty cool!
Here are a few shots of my canvases:
I was feeling ok about my canvases when we packed up on Sunday, but now that I've been looking at them at home for a couple of days, I'm not so sure. It's all good though because 1. we're using acrylic paints (very forgiving) and 2. this class is about so much more than the painting.
I can't believe we're in the final week of the Bloom True class. Hopefully our little painting group will continue to get together. I'm sure sure we will since my mom is already talking about doing studio tours in June and I think we should have some sort of gallery opening to share our finished paintings this Spring.
On the way home we thought we might fit in a stop at Russell's Garden Center before meeting up with the girls. Alas it was not to be this trip. Instead we picked up four very happy, very thirsty teenage girls.
Yep, a pretty good day for all.
