Evee

Went to the second of Joe's classes today! His painting was in a similar vein as last week's, but with a tree-lined country road instead of a river, distant hills with distant trees, and trees and hedges in the foreground. My original sketch turned out not too badly - Joe was actually quite complimentary about it - but everything went pear-shaped when I began to paint!

Well, I got the sky looking OK, then the road - maybe the colour wasn't quite right - and the green wash across the middle distance...... but the big trouble started with the trees!

Joe had demonstrated the technique very clearly, but it all went wrong for me. My brain tells me I know what to do but somehow, between my brain and the hand holding the paint brush the message gets garbled and the brush won't do what I intend it should do!!

These are Joe's trees, as you can tell!

I tried to rescue it and succeeded up to a point, but it looks like a big paint scribble to me. Joe told me though - very kindly, I thought - that I was a long way from being bottom of the class, and that with practice I would improve! Yes, Joe, lots of practice necessary! Hmmm!

Again I took photos of each stage of the development, so will have to study them well and see if I can come up with anything better than I have done up to now! I so want to be able to do this well! It's like learning a foreign language for me! I not only want to speak the language but I want my accent to be right too! Do you know what I mean?

I had to laugh to myself today though, as several other folk produced their cameras too ..... mainly just to photograph the finished piece! I must have started a trend!!!

Anyway I must make time for practice! Not tonight though! It's bedtime!

Talk again soon.