Another Opening

Plenty of sunshine.  Little Wonder and I went out to the Studio this morning.  I took the tape off my sampler and it looks much better.

I had demonstrated the wet on wet painting in class....let it dry and started adding stuff.

Did not like the direction I was going in and tried to make some changes before adding colored pencil.

On a sunny day, the vibe in the Studio is so relaxing with the music playing.  Today it was our friend Chris Wilson.

I'm still not finished, but here's where I stopped working today.  Kind of funky.

For the 100th time I went back to my overpainted flowers.

I quit.

Little Wonder gave up on me and went back to the house.

I did get in Ride #34 before lunch while the temperature was still good.

Gary planted a bunch of mums in front of the house today.  That certainly was an improvement.

I took a short rest with my buddy....

then made another batch of applesauce.

This evening we drove out to Albion for an Art Opening at Marti's on Main.

Three women, who were connected to the College at Brockport, were being featured.

First....Jennifer Hecker.  She is currently in the art department at the college and has shown all over the country.  Glass is her thing.

2nd, Roseanne Mascari.  She is a good friend, fine musician, singer, and has produced so many paintings!

3rd. Jill Gussow.  She used to teach at the college and we have one of her paintings.

Kim, the gallery owner and an artist herself, has had connections with all three.

What a great turnout!

Home before dark.

Night all.

PS

The Buffalo Bills came through again.  Great game.

 

The Grand Opening

It ended up being muggy again.

Gary met his pals for coffee and ran a couple errands while Little Wonder and I got off to our usual slow start.  The applesauce I made yesterday turned out great!

We did go out to the Studio so I could bring in the flowers... as they won't make until the next class.

We have so many veggies from the garden.  Gary will make more sauce tomorrow.

Before lunch I went out to do a little mowing.  Getting a grip on the small pasture now.

Gary worked his butt off around the barns again while LW and I took it easy.

Tonight, a local dentist had a grand opening for his new office space.  It used to be the Senior Center for our town and I spent a lot of time there participating in the chorus and volunteering. I was so impressed with what has been done.  Has to be the Rolls Royce of dental offices.

 A friend's band was playing there and I wanted to grab a couple videos.

There were food trucks and everyone (there were hundreds) could have a meal and a drink.  So generous and so good.  Gary and I had Chicken Kebobs with rice and beans.  I gave him my bread and did not eat the beans so I felt pretty good about it.  Just drank water.

This video is for my friend Hanny, who had been a director at the Senior Center.  I think the first space was her office.

A very special event and so well attended.

Home by 7:30, getting ready to watch the Bills game in their new stadium.

Night all.

 

Samplers

Muggy again and I could feel it.

Another slow start. to the day.  Grabbed a shower and was out in the Studio a little before 10.  Little Wonder was waiting for our guests to arrive.

Anita kept working on her painting from last week

and the rest of the class started on the watercolor sampler.  I showed them mine

and they got started.  First wet on wet....very loose and abstract.

While the sampler's dried, they worked on their flowers and landscapes from the past couple weeks.

Busy Busy and we listened to Chris Wilson's CDs.

I can't wait to see how the samplers are finished.  They can just use paint or add colored pencils, fine marker or......

For several of the students, this was the last class.  A couple will be going to Florida for the winter soon.  5 or 6 will be staying and if there is interest I will add more.

Here is my latest start.  Much bigger.

My friend Alice was here to pick me up before noon as we were going out to lunch.  My first time out and I really made a plan for what I could order.  Picked a chicken salad sandwich on toast with lettuce....had water and stole a couple onion rings from Alice.  Interesting....they are not as bad as French fries.  They gave me chips and pickles but they went home for Gary.

Made a trip to Wegmans for a few things and Gary peeled a ton of apples so I could make more applesauce when I got home.

Took a break and then made dinner.  A Kidney friendly version of Mac and cheese...used Angel hair.  It was very dull and there was enough left for a couple more meals.

Tired.

Night all.

PS

Check out what Scott did to the house today!  Moving right along....