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Each week for a year, I'm sending a handwritten note on a handmade card to a friend or family member. Track my progress here:
Week 1: Sylvia
Week 2: Andrew
Week 3: Brenda, Kelby
Week 4: Brenda
Week 5: Neil
Week 6: Erin
Week 7: Tom and Darcy
Week 8: Tom
Week 9: Lynn
Week 10: Approximately 60 holiday cards
Week 11: Antonio
Week 12: Six thank you notes
Week 13: Cole
Week 14: Chrisy
Week 15: Tonya
Week 16: Sylvia
Week 17: Steve
Week 18: Melanie
October 14, 2010 at 11:39 
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October 27, 2009 at 16:08 Last week marked my final acrylic painting class with a local artist. This Friday I start with a new instructor and a new approach. We'll see how that goes. I'm not sure I'm really cut out to be a painter, but hey, I'll give it one more try.
For my last assignment, I tried to recreate some of the sunflowers I saw in a field by my home. Hmmm, looked a little bit like the lollipop flowers little children draw. I wish I'd made the stems bend and given it more of a sense of movement. The perspective is skewed in the foreground. I did like my sky and all the shades of green I managed to introduce in my foliage.
We spent about an hour in class doing a quick landscape. I liked this one, despite it's unfinished look. The sunflowers were painted on canvas. This is just a piece of poster board and eventually I may cut it up and make cards from the bits and pieces. Sorry about the flash bloom in the center. When I turned off my flash, it was too blurry.
acrylic painting in Learning to paint 