I did one last painting at the end of the fall session of my class. This was based on one of Ron's photos of some very colorful parrots. Most of the class only did the single parrot, but I included the two in the background of the photo because I liked the way they looked in the photo. It was fun to use all of the bright colors.
When the class started up again in the new year, I knew that there would not be a class project for the first class, but I didn't really have any good ideas about what to paint. I looked through recent photos on my iphone, and thought about a couple of them with dramatic clouds, but that sounded a bit difficult. Ron usually brings in a big pile of color copies from old class projects, and one of an old wrecked boat caught my eye. Ron said that he took the photo somewhere on Tomales Bay. I worked fast on this one and finished it well before the end of the class. Whenever I have gone a month or more without painting, I always feel like I need to do a throw-away painting just to get back into the feel of it. This time, although it's not one of my best, at least it's not a throw-away.
