No boat travel.
When I held the acrylic painting demo / class a few days ago, the younger crowd had prior commitments and could not attend. I invited them over to the boat today to have a painting session. We had just enough room around the table in the salon to spread our work out and get creative.
I gave the girls two choices for paintings - the one with the palm tree I did with the adults or one with a sunset.
Ella made the decision and chose the sunset picture because it had the palm fronds as well as being colorful. Our session latest for about two hours.
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| Evelyn describing the next step in the painting process. |
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| Working on the background ... |
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| Adding sun and palm fronds ... |
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| Anna May's great painting ... Complete with signature! |
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| Ella - adding the palm fronds |
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| Ella's beautifully finished painting! |
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| Jasmine ready to add the silhouetted palm trees. |
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| Jasmine's amazing art work! |
Everyone was afraid that trying to add the grass over the water would ruin their pictures, so we decided to stop while ahead of the game. When the girls left, they all appeared satisfied with their finished works. I thought they all did a marvelous job painting! They were well-mannered and all, very graciously, offered to assist with clean up. What a great group of girls!
After putting away the paint supplies and getting the boat back to its more normal state, Clark and I went for a stroll around the marina. We found several folks to talk to along the way, so it turned into a rather long stroll that ended with us joining in the discussions at docktails.
Later, after hearing the local weather and news, we walked over to Beverly and Dave's boat, "Amalie". Beverly's brother, Richard, and sister-in-law, Adrienne, are visiting from Beaufort, NC. Richard is well known for his chocolate martinis, so he played bartender. In addition to Clark and me, Mel and Ann, and Lisa and Ken joined the party. Somehow the conversation segued into story and joke telling. Of course, we heard some Mel classics and laughed hysterically. Somehow they never get old no matter how many times we hear them!
We got back to our boat around 8:30 or so after drinking chocolate martinis for nearly two hours. (Clark drank only water of course.) Cautiously, I managed to get off their boat and back to ours. Since we had not eaten dinner before we went visiting, I then set to and made something for us to eat. I put together a shrimp and broccoli over rice dinner that didn't require too much focused attention.
A while later we got warnings of bad weather approaching. When it arrived, it brought lots of rain and dangerously close lightening. As we watched the old movie, "The Apartment", starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Ray Walston, and Fred McMurray, the satellite television suddenly came up with an error message. Apparently, the cloud cover was such that we could no longer get a satellite signal. When we finally got the signal back, more than an hour later, the movie had the credits rolling. Ah well! Time for bed!
Bill Forrestall posted the following video on the thunderstorm ...
https://www.facebook.com/bill.forrestall/videos/10221898016705766/?t=4
Great job painting with the kids! Annika would have loved to join the fun.
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