Not at all what I thought it would be....
After reading that we were "sketching" today, I went out and excitedly bought a cool set of Prismacolor pencils and a sketch book....
This morning we gathered at 8:30 to head to the Holistic Garden at A&M, armed with cameras and encouraged to both take pictures and to collect plant samples to draw. After returning to our workroom....we used neither! The botanical illustrator who ran the session had us TRACING a collected flower or provided veggie on a plastic picture frame and then copying it on to tracing paper! Botanical illustrators apparently, don't actually draw anything! The only productive part of the morning was the time we spent learning how to shadow drawings to create a 3-D appearance....Unfortunately we only did this for 20 or 30 minutes before being rushed on to the next phase....Where we were given a comprehensive, all-inclusive, complete, unabridged, no stone left unturned, no child left behind, expansive 30 minute workshop in watercolors.
The first (and only) not worth the drive day of what, so far, has been a great workshop....
Tomorrow....at 7AM I journey into laundryland!!!! Its wash day (and with a little luck) I may just have enough clean laundry to make it back to Tampa without doing anymore wash!
Or I may just have to buy new clothes (what a shame....a dirty job - pun intended -but someones gotta do it....
On a sad note it appears the camera has finally passed away. RIP old friend.
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