Hi there everyone 😃
It was Saturday a couple of weeks ago and the forecast was a shocker ... heavy rain all day ... not only was the forecast a shocker it was spot on ... it was definitely not a gardening day?
I decided I was going to make the most of it and started off by getting my favourite ginger cake in the oven, before getting the dining table set up for a watercolour session ...
We’d been waiting for the right time to crack on with the next of the projects from our January Art Class in a Box and it seemed like the perfect opportunity.
This was the project I was most looking forward to completing ... and was the one that had really driven me to buying the kit ... the winter flower wreath ...
I was really drawn to the colours ... though I have to say that what I ended up with wasn’t quite as planned.
We traced the design onto our paper and, as we hadn’t done any florals before, we started off with a bit of a practice ...
It’s only our third attempt at water colours and already we’ve learned that how ever things look early on you need to stick with it ... as it’s only when you’ve finished you can really see how you’ve done ... if it doesn’t look quite right there are ways and means of pulling it back ...
The roses were a bit tricky and the colour of the petunias wasn’t quite right ... a bit too red ... but once we started to put the leaves in it did start to come together ...
As was Martin ... who had been really frustrated with his first petunia and was almost on the edge of packing in or starting again ...
We just have one project left to complete ... the duck ... which looks pretty tricky, but who knows ... we’ve done all right so far.
I have to say it is the most relaxing way to spend an afternoon ... we just got all set up, stopped and started the YouTube tutorial and took our time.
We have had another play since ... working through a few Youtube tutorials ...
We’d definitely made the best of a bleak and miserable day and there was still ginger cake to be sampled 😜
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Well done to you both & the art in a box sounds really good & a great way to spend a wet afternoon. Take care & hugs.
ReplyDeleteThank you ... it really is a relaxing pastime. We were hoping to do a bit more whilst we were away last week in Yorkshire as the weather forecast was for lots of rain ... but we didn’t get chance, we were out and about every day, which was lovely and has given plenty to blog about over the next few weeks 😃
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