Today I am painting with the Buckhorn Artists'
Group at St Matthew's Church.
Once we arrived we were greeted with the news that the boiler had quit during the night and that there was no heat in the building.
Fortunately, the temperature didn't drop below freezing overnight and there was still some heat remaining in the building but, there was also no water available so we couldn't use the washrooms.
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We had brought new paintings to hang on the wall to replace the ones that were there since the Covid 19 shut downs had started.
After the paintings were hung most of us decided to tough it out and stay to paint or draw for the day.
In the meantime we talked about what we had stored in our two cupboards at the church so I pulled everything out and we sorted through all the reference paintings we had from various artists who had instructed us over the years.
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We sorted the paintings, drawings and kept the works from each artist together and returned them to the first cupboard.
Next we sorted through all the reference material, booklets and tear sheets from magazines and decided to put some of them in a file in the cupboard.
The old guest books dated back to our first show called "Among Friends" held on the Victoria Day weekend in May 1989. One of our members wanted to keep them and create an archive for our group.
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After everything was put into the second cupboard, I pulled out these pieces that I had started a number of years ago (see post on 30 November 2017) and decided to get at least the background painted into them.
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I wet the background area with water and brushed in French ultramarine blue to give the impression of sky behind the laundry.
I will post each of these pieces at a later date as more work on them is completed.
