When the weather turned, we moved to my house

Cozier space and we could heat it well! Here is Susie’s start on some water lilies.

Win making progress on the sunflowers

Holly’s pumpkins – and another beautiful palette

Holly’s magnolia flowers – and look at her palette, like a painting in itself.

Win gets started on the sunflowers

Susie’s blue and white pots and lemons – a really ambitious painting!

September 2011 – Shannon’s Rose making progress

September 2011 – at the Fairfax Community Church

We first met at my church here in Fairfax. Huge room, big tables. This isn’t the first day, but one of the first weeks.
Win, Shannon, Susie and Leslie J.

The Beginning – August 2011

This is Shannon Brown’s painting the first time she came to paint with me. It was she who really got me going with leading/teaching watercolor. I had terrible deer in the headlights about it, and she encouraged me. And I couldn’t be more grateful. She came over for a couple of hours, we decided the paper she’d drawn these roses on was too small, so I got her a piece of my 22″x30″ 300lb Arches, we set up the Artograph and she re-drew it. Then we painted together. That was August of last year (2011). I then made plans for the group to start in mid-September, after the Sausalito festival was over.