Strawberries and Devonshire Cream
This is a little sketch done in Prismacolor pencil and watercolor on Zerkall Frankfurt Cream paper. The paper sounds good enough to eat, doesn't it? It is not watercolor paper, and it does buckle, but I kind of like it anyway.I did this at my second annual Terrace Inn Afternoon Tea. Twenty-one ladies attended and they all brought their watercolor journals and small paint kits. Their paintings were wonderful! We spent the afternoon in the beautiful dining room (linen tablecloths and watercolors do mix after all) painting in our journals, compairing supplies, and catching up. We painted a little before we started eating and then everyone painted between bites.
The very fact that the Inn lets us paint at the tables set with linen says it all. The whole staff is gracious, accommodating, and creative.
I love the idea of getting past, present, and future students together, and it's so much fun to discover new techniques, find out where to pick up new materials, and just to share some time with people with sketchbooks in common.
Thanks to all who attended!!! I'm looking forward to next year already.