Thank you Jennifer!

A big Thank You to Jennifer for organizing & writing the agenda for our meeting today! I love painting at our Coop! My first painting at the Coop...Champagne Wardrobe!

It has been amazing painting at the Coop lately...such fun and so easy to stay focused and really accomplish a lot! At home there are so many distractions, but at the studio, it is just paint, paint, schmooze a bit with the other chicks and paint some more!! Attaching paintings I've worked on the last few days at our studio...

Getting Acclimated!!

It has been a challenge to get adjusted to painting in a new environment. We have spent the first two weeks cleaning and organizing our Coop and then, for those of us who are totally indecisive, trying to figure out where to paint...front room or back , near the air conditioner or not, by the east or west window...too many choices...overwhelming for some reason. Finally parked myself somewhere, began to paint in earnest and loved having a space to create with friends/ fellow painters.

The above photos are inspirations for future paintings. The mergansers above were one day visitors to our backyard lake...migrated in and were swiftly gone. Hope everyone will bring many photos and pages from favorite magazines to The Coop to form a "library" of sorts to inspire us all. I recently painted some flowers inspired by such a torn page and attach it here. The "flower pot" is made of burlap and the whole project was great fun! Looking forward to mingling ideas and "knowledge??"at The Coop.

"Goldfinch in Orange" by Jennifer Ferris

"Goldfinch in Orange"

by Jennifer Ferris

Mixed Media on board

3.5" x 3.5"

SOLD

Color Theory DVD

Kim and Jennifer painted at The Coop today, and had a visit from Jane.  Mary Jane also stopped by to say hello.  Jane had lunch at the new bakery Breadtime just down the street and said it was fabulous.

While painting, Kim and Jennifer discussed looking in to a color theory DVD for a group viewing.  Please post a comment if you are interested, if you have any suggestions on a color theory DVD, or any other DVD topics.  Setting up our own little “workshops” like this is only one of many advantages of painting as a group.  I am sure we will continue to discover many more!

Painted Door

Many thanks to Jane for painting the door!!!  It looks great!!!

Moving Day

Our move-in day finally arrived on March 1st, 2012 and we all worked to make The Coop our new "home" for painting with friends.