Useless - Sketch for Scavenger Hunt and APS meeting

I have been signing in on wetcanvas.com and replying on the threads for the Scavenger Hunts, I preview them and then hit "Preview" again instead of "Submit Reply" and closing the window. Later, maybe only a minute later, I realize my mistake when my post doesn't show up and have to go start over. Very irritating. Do you remember the old saying? "If you don't have time to do something right, what makes you think you have time to do it over?" I usually make this mistake when I am in a hurry and have spent a while writing a long post and commenting on the sketches. Such a waste of time. Sigh.......

So, I'm pretty useless .. actually that is the item I sketched last night! Number 2 on the list, the most useless gadget we have.

Actually it may not be the most useless, but we rarely use the DVD player.

We had our Austin Pastel Society meeting today. It was such a beautiful day and Jeanette Cuevas was our presenter of a demo. She is a great artist and so sharing with her information and techniques. She does a watercolor under painting on watercolor paper.

Jeanette and the interested artists.

Jeanette working on the painting.

The demo painting. You can see her style of using hatching and letting the under painting show through. She will have the rest of the Work In Progress, WIP, on her blog and the finished painting on her blog when she gets back home.. Be sure and check out her great paintings on her website. She will be having a workshop with this technique in Rockport, Texas, on November 3, 4 and 5. Maybe you can go, there are a couple of spaces left.

And here is a beautiful sky as I was getting in the car to come home. Nifty, eh?

It is about 40-45 miles to the meeting each way. It is at Tres Amigos Restaurant. (the Highway 360, Lakeway location) They have a very nice room for us there and the wait-staff is always great. Good food, too. Our next regular meeting is in January. November and December are put together into the Christmas Party the first week in December. Hope to see you there sometime. Pastelists are a great bunch of artists. We always have fun and they have been a great inspiration and encouragement to me.

More information about the Austin Pastel Society on the website.