Water Color

The last time I even tried to paint anything was in elementary school, and it was forced. Since then I have learned that I have the ability to be an artist, although not in the normal medium. If you give me clay, I can throw you a pot. If you give me glass, I can make a beautiful stained glass window. If you give me a pencil and paper, you probably will have no idea what I tried to draw.

Knowing this about myself, I was surprised that Amy asked if I wanted to come to a water color class. Nothing big, just a class at the local community center. I agreed, slightly reluctantly.

My first class was on Thursday, Amy of course was there, as well as another girl friend Keely. One more of our coworkers will be coming to the class, but wasnt able to make it. Other than the three of us, there was one other woman, and the teacher.

Our teacher was darling, her name is Betty Lou, and she fits the picture you probably have in your head to a T. She is small, with short blond hair that looks like it is a helmet around her head. During this class she had us paint two different pictures.

For the first picture we picked out a fruit, both Amy and I did a pear, and Keely got an apple. She taught us how to draw, and then we did this neat process called Friskett. Friskett is alot like rubber cement, and protected the picture from the water color we were going to use in the background. We also Frisketted checkers on the table cloth our fruit was on. We did the darker back colors. Then we had to get the Friskett off the paper. It would peel off, sometimes with the paper... Then we painted the lighter colors of the fruit and decorated the checkers.

Here is my beautiful pear. Which at least it looks like a pear. Apparently Keely's apple looks more like a pomegranite...
















While we were waiting for certain parts of our fruits to dry we also were painting a sunset scene. We did a sun setting over water. We drew out our horizon, and then our sun. Then we painted everything over the horizon yellow, and then put the Friskett over the sun. The teacher explained to us that we should have some reflection of the sun in the water. So we painted little bit of yellow in the water, and Frisketted that too. We painted the sky with reds and yellows and the ocean with blues and greens.

We decided that we needed to take our pictures and frame them for one of our bosses, Jed. So we purchased a black frame and put it in his office. He is pretty proud of it.

Amy's is the best, of course. She has been doing painting for a long time. Although, Keelys and mine are pretty aweseome. It seems weird that Keely has bananas in her water. I have gold fish, and they seem to be pushing my horizon up. Regardless I am proud of my skills.