In my last post I stated that I was determined to be creative in the following week.  I was completely derailed! First I got one of the worst colds I have ever had, then I backed into a car and had to have my car repaired, and I am working extra shifts this week!  I didn’t get anything done at all until 3 days ago, when I began an art class called Illustrative watercolor.  It is going to be a great class; in the first session the instructor explained things about watercolor pigment that I had never known.  I feel like I’m the only watercolor painter out there who didn’t know that the blues and greens look granular because the pigment is heavy and gets down into the paper, or that alizarin crimson floats on top of other colors and thus works beautifully for glazing, or that adding burnt sienna to green mixtures or blues does amazing things.  I learned more in that one class than in hours spent reading books about the subject.  The only bad thing was doing a still life for our color study in the second half of the class.  I really, really, really do not like doing still life paintings.  Everything in it is inanimate, with no life at all, including the plastic pear.  Next week we are doing a cityscape or landscape, so I’m going to go out and take some photos tomorrow for class.  It’s supposed to be 53 tomorrow! Michigan is having a heat wave!

One of my daughter’s wants me to knit her another slouchy hat.  Pictured here is one I made for the girls, the pattern is Cote-nord cap by Amy Christoffers, from Interweave Knits Winter 2014 magazine.  Very fun to knit, and I love love love the Nature Spun yarn by Brown Sheep that I used.

Hopefully this next week will be better!