Reedy Plants

I have been taking egg tempera in the mornings this month.  

The afternoon got very crowded.

While it's tough to get there early- the morning class is 8:45-12:30- but I usually arrive around 9:15. 

I have to say it's nice to get out of class and have a lot of day left.

Doug doesn't care how long I stay- if it isn't too crowded and I feel like it, I stay for part of the afternoon session as well.

But today, as I was painting and enjoying class, I felt weirder and weirder, like I should be outside painting instead! It's true that I haven't been out enough yet this year, but that's because of Other Factors- mostly weather, but schedule stuff too.

Yesterday morning I was going to go paint before Daya's show and dinner with Janae.... and when I woke up the weather said 32/feels like 17.

Nope.

That's a full winter gear mission and I'm not up for it.

Then Aimee texted me and we spent the morning planning a trip in June.

*****

So anyhow I was in class feeling weird.

I left class around 1, stopped home for about 10 minutes to pack and re-pack, and went down to the wildlife reservation.  Temp was ok until the end, then it was COLD.

I'm ready for milder weather.

Here are some nice reedy plants.

They come with challenges, I might paint them again but this was a fun painting to do.

8x10 oil

I brought some Gamblin Radiants out today.

While it is true I have wayyy too much oil paint, I also know that I do actually use it.

Sometimes it's "eventually" but it does happen.

It was good to be out, even briefly.

We have a huge week of rain in the forecast which is a bummer, but maybe the weather people will be wrong!