Sunday's Art Class and Making An Art Connection AND Happy Thanksgiving AND Happy Animal Wednesday

Sunday was a fun day, even though I was a bit tired out from the night before when we went to the Concert in SF. (see previous post).

But the rains had stopped and the roads were clear so driving to Lincoln was a piece of cake (using GPS...that godsend device that now gets me everywhere without getting lost).

The theme for the art class was Thanksgiving. Terry had a few photos for us to use as guides

and I had fun doing them all.

My "worried looking turkey" joins me here in wishing you a

Happy Thanksgiving!

He was most fun to do.

 These candles in the fall leaves are okay...I tried to give a little light shining off the tops of them in yellow.

 The horn of plenty was a first quick painting with little effort and a few swift strokes of color.

 This second candle picture was done on a light weight paper that I realized late was there to protect the watercolor pages under them. So it warped. But I almost like this one better than the first on the better paper.

And then I did another one. I just work fast. Some people spent the whole time on just one or two paintings, but I just kept pumping them out. Maybe next time I will learn to spend more time on just one and see what I can produce that way.

 This man worked on his two the the entire three hours. And his turkey shows great detail. I was very impressed with is work.

 After class on the way home I stopped in Davis to do a little retail therapy shopping. I came across this tiny shop called Lilies. The owner, Dina Furman, seen below, was most gracious. I noticed she had a lot of art on the walls. She also had an accent and I asked her where she was from. She is Israeli. I happened to be wearing the necklace Mim made of the map of Israel and Dina noticed it and liked it a lot. She said she'd love to sell such necklaces in her shop. So I connected her up with Mim. How sweet is that?!  She said she is also interested in seeing my art so I gave her my blog URLs. Who knows it could be a new selling venue for me too!

I bought a real cute sweater there to wear to Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday! I will look smashing!

Dina in her shop.

The dress she is standing by is full of beads and just adorable!

And so was she!