Crashing Class to Paint

The journey to LaGuardia High School takes 35-40 minutes.

I gave it an hour to account for any train weirdness.

4 stops later, when I was switching to the E/F, everything was at a standstill.

Not good.

Unauthorized person on the tracks.

That takes a while.

Like a LONG while.

So I switched over to the 7, and that had signal problems.

I was SO UPSET, I did NOT want to miss parent observation!!

I was late but did see most of the Horton class.

But I couldn’t paint, there was no time. Even losing 15 minutes is too much.

So I enjoyed watching Daya’s Horton class, and then she had rehearsal.

Some of the other kids went to ms Foote’s class, so I decided to go there, too, and paint.

I love Ms Foote.

She didn’t mind at all that I went in to paint, and she also thinks I should come back after Daya is gone to paint.

Here is the painting, 5x7 mostly gouache with some pastel…

I was thinking about the size of the figures on the page, it’s zoomed out a little too… but the main thing I did differently was snap a picture of the pose I wanted..

I think I’ll do this from now on when I am allowed to take photos; sometimes I’m not allowed.

This panel was gray-toned but no clear gesso, and i can’t decide if I prefer a smoother surface or not

But it worked out really well and is a good strategy, as much as I don’t like using any kind of photo reference for these things.

Here are some pics of Daya.