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This is the picture which we were to paint. You're given a choice of paintings to choose from, and this is the one that Cathy choose for us. It was a good choice.
Now that I think of it, that may not be correct, because everyone in the studio (and I'd say there were 30 - 50 of us) painted the same picture.
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Cathy. She's the one who started this whole evening. She liked this painting. I think it should be called "self portrait."
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Sue getting ready. The Art Party people provide wine glasses, or I suppose others, for your beverage of choice, which you bring.
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Left is Karen, right in front is Becky, and behind her Marianne.
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Jean and her box of Franzia Chillable Red. Quite good.
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Each of us got a tray of paint. the professional painters told us how to mix our paints, and how to use them.
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We all started with a blank canvas. Each canvas had three pencil lines on it which represented the bridge, and the edge of the lilly pond.
We could see on the big screen what she painted on the small canvas in back.
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The three lines represent the bridge and the edge of the lilly pond.
The instructors wanted us to have fun with it, be like a five year old, paint freely, and let them guide us.
That was more difficult for some of us than others . . until we adopted the mantra "we don't care. We just don't care." You'd have to have been there, but we know. Thank you Marianne.
The other thing our instructors told us was if we brought a camera, take a picture of our progression throughout the evening.
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And so we begin.
Lilly Pads.
They tell us how to mix our paint, which of the three brushes to use, what kind of stroke to use.
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Textures.
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Cathy giving me the thumbs up.
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At last. It starts to take shape, and we begin to see possibilities.
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My finished product.
It took us about three hours.
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