Late Thursday thoughts

Well, it is late Thursday, and I have had another most pleasant day with my painting group. There are 6 of us that meet every Thursday to paint and help each other with our problems. We get a lot of work done, and have developed deep friendships with our painting times.
I am presently working on a full watercolor sheet of a forest scene. I'm having a little trouble incorporating sunlit areas in with the rest of the dark foliage. I can't decide whether to leave the areas sunblasted with very little detail, or to just make the painting very light in the sunny areas. When I finish it, I will photograph it and put in my next entry.
Currently most of my friends are really involved with the coming election. Mixed with this is the latest report on how many Iraquis killed in the war so far--800,000. I have a poster I painted very early on in this conflict, I will pull it out and add the new data and will photo it and put it in the next blog also. I have never produced a poster about a subject like this before--think I have been able to disconnect myself with world events until now. Must be my increasing age!! makes me more reverent about life.Allene

Well, finally----

Yes, well finally I am back. Sorry for the long interval of silence. Life interferes with painting and art.
I have hung 20 paintings in the Arts of Snohomish Gallery for a featured show. We had a lovely reception, too bad you weren't there! The show continues until November 2. I tried a new way of finishing my watercolors--mounting them on canvas with Golden soft gel, spraying the surface with a UV protective acrylic varnish, and painting the edge of the canvas with a paint. I really like the appearance of these, no glass between the picture and the viewer. I will definitely do this again.
The art show attendees really liked the look of these also. And, yippee, no frame needed.
I'll put a few of my paintings in this blog so you can see that my favorite subjects are from nature.