Painting Outdoors

I'm so sorry those dumpsters are in the way. I keep trying to find a way to block them from view.

 

This visit was a chance to show one of my sister's the paintings I'd been working on the last few Months. She'd seen photos but that's just not the same experience as seeing the texture and everything in person.

Excuse the extra pictures here. I just haven't figured out how to remove them yet.

It seems that every time I get used to the way things work the tech people change them.

I hope that everything is running smoothly for you. I'd like your reading experience to be a pleasant one.

 Sometimes get togethers are just to visit, sometimes we paint our own things, occasionally we choose a project and as this time, sometimes we just evaluate the results.

The important thing is to encourage each other and keep the creativity coming.

My Art on Masks and a Social Distanced Painting Play Day in the Garden

 I don't often get in these pictures because I'm usually the one shooting them. That's me in the turquoise mask. I designed this mask especially to go with it, a blue, and a purple dress that I have.

You may remember it a few posts back as one of the paintings I did to use for scarf and necktie designs. 

For the mask I reduced the image and mirror imaged it. Can you see the similarities in the design now.

This mask was made from a landscape painting that I did back in the 1980's or 90's when I was teaching that Bob Ross style big brush painting. What we like about using it on a mask is that one
of the trees goes over the nose and gives you somewhere to focus when talking to the other person.

Now, back to the fun.

Because it was a windy day we didn't worry about putting the tables quite as far apart as we could have but there is more than room enough to do that here.

Some of us were doing bird houses and I was trying to get a small painting of  Iris done before the Iris stop blooming.