T Stands for a Rainy Day & an Attempt to Paint

   Happy T everyone,

       We gather at hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth blog to share a post with a drink related photo You are most welcome to join us. A wonderful group of talented and friendly artists and crafters

   I heard the soft rain as I was waking up this morning, and it continues off and on. A pleasant spring like day-I love it.

 Sunday was amazing, by afternoon we were in the 60's f with light winds and full sunshine. I was just getting ready to suggest that Larry go throw a fish line in off the deck, and our good friends (near the woods house) dropped in for a visit. So the guys went fishing and us girls chatted and caught up. A nice afternoon.

  I have been drinking cups of decaf coffee with whipped cream. The whip cream on top that melts into the coffee makes me smile haha

and today (Monday) when I  made up a fresh pot for me I remembered these lovely cups that I don't use often. I bought this set in the '70s in North Carolina. I loved this artist-and she electric fired her pottery (opposed to gas fired) which made her pieces very light.

   I did finish up the spinning for the pretty blue merino and silk blend. I had a difficult time with this one with all the different textures and bits of wools and silks-but it will be fine for my saori style weaving project. This goes into my bag of spun Yellowstone Park inspired colors.

  I did not meet my goal for the project of finishing setting my loom and the threading by end of February so that goal continues for March.

 Friday early evening a bit before darkness there were these bright yellow spots on the lake from some sort of reflection. I finally figured it out that it was from the almost full moon being so bright. I wanted to try and paint that.

  Today (Monday) since it was raining I wanted attempt this.  I thought I would just try painting with no influences from Your Tube videos etc-but I think I will look for some inspiration on how to paint water and skies.

    I almost did not share my piece as this may just be too "primitive" but I actually like it. As those yellow spots in the water were really amazing to see and figure out where they came from.

    The sky should have been a bit lighter. Since there are houses and docks across the lake for my view I added in dabs of brown to seperate sky from water.  (so don't laugh to hard 😀 when you see the painting)

   This is the pad of paper that came with my acrylic paints-I forgot to take a photo of the paints I was using-not allot of color choices and when I tried to lighten the blues they got more grey.

     I wanted to play around a bit first before I decide if I want to learn more about painting and pick up more colors.

    Finished piece before glueing into my journal

Taking photos and then looking at this-I for sure needed more contrast of blues between the water and sky-I do want to learn to paint water better. It was just before dark when I saw this scene.

   That's it for me this week.  

We just finished our main 2 pm meal a bit ago, so need toclean up the kitchen and then I am going to bake up a batch of cookies that I mixed up this morning. This is the one with no flour-I used mostly almond butter and a little cashew butter, dark keto choco chips, yellow raisins, quick oats, keto sugars and some spices.  I will update this post with a photo of cookies to share

Happy T