Second Day -- Lots of Frustrations

Marla #2

I went down to my studio with a good attitude. I began by looking at yesterday's work and made the adjusted described in the previous post.

Then I started the second lesson. It involved a barn and lots of tall grasses in the foreground.  I wasn't crazy about the original image, so I adjusted it to lower the horizon line and, thereby, bring down the grasses.  I was very unhappy with my lopsided rooflines and the foreground grasses/water/reflections are a real mess.  Given that I wasn't crazy about Marla's (though they are much more interesting than mine), I think I'm going to just let this one pass.

The second part of the lesson calls for repainting a rural scene with building from another photo reference.  I will try that tomorrow.  She provided alternate reference images, but they didn't print well for me because of running low on ink....which required a trip to the store, yada, yada, yada.

Luckily I did the painting in the morning.  The afternoon was spent in Dahlonega working with our new church's new data management system, Realm.  The conference call was less helpful than I expected.  I came home with the job of setting up groups/roles/responsibilities.  I also wanted to have a go at creating a member directory.  Taking a look at it, I see that neither of these tasks are going to be easy.  Adding to that the inability I have to use the uuism network on my Mac, I am an extremely frustrated lady!