No art class today. (4/7/2024)

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There was no art class today because in the UK it was polling day and they were using the hall as a polling station. I phoned up the taxi on Monday to cancel today's taxi, and I added a new date on the end (1st August) to make up for the one that was cancelled. This morning I phoned the taxi place up again to remind them that today's taxi was cancelled. I then proceeded to tell him that it will be back to normal next week with a taxi at 1:30pm to take me to the hall and a taxi for 5:00pm to bring me back. But then the guy told me they'd ALL been cancelled and the only one they'd got down was the one in August because I'd booked that up when I'd cancelled the one for the 7th! So then I had to re-book the ones for the 11th, 18th and 25th July! So now I hope he remembers to come next week again! So, because there was no art class today, I was doing some painting at home instead. Today I did some watercolour paintings for the London art course and I did some more to the watercolour fish painting that I started at the Wall Art Class. First I painted a little watercolour painting of some hills and a stream and a little cottage. I wet the whole paper first, then I started with the sky and brought that down nearly to the top of the mountains. Then I used yellow ochre and starting from the bottom painted it up until it reached the sky area. Then I let it dry a bit before I put in the hills in the background, and the stream. Later I put in some darker greens for the nearer hills. The foreground was done in a darker green, with a bit of ochre and some red in here and there to indicate heather. Then I put some cloud shadows in. I painted the front of the cottage in light brown and the roof in a darker brown with a little bit of red in to indicate the sun shining on the roof. The side of the cottage was left as white paper to indicate where the sun was shining on it most. When it was finished I put it in my bedroom to dry. Then I started on my second painting. (Above.) In this one the only initial drawing I did was the horizon line. I had directions on how to do it in my course folder. I painted the sky in first in a VERY light blue, so light you could hardly tell it was there. Then, when that was dry, I painted in the distant hills on the left in a very light pink (I used champagne actually!) When that was dry I painted in the other hills on the right with the same colour but with more pigment and less water to make it look slightly darker. When that was dry I painted in the island which is nearer too in a much darker colour. When that was dry I painted in the lake with a darker version of the sky colour. When that was dry I painted in the rocks and trees. But I've never been very good at trees! When I'd finished that I put it in my bedroom to dry with the other one. Then I had a break and had my dinner and watched some telly. After Hollyoaks I left it on the same side and let my Mum watch Come Dine With Me while I went back into the doing room to paint another layer on the fish painting that I started at art class. When I'd done that I thought I'd done enough for today and I went and had one of my vegan magnum ice lollies and did some Facebook and Twitter (X). Then I did some reading before I came to bed. What have you lot been getting up to today? I hope you are all well. Have a great night.