Storytime

Last weekend, a gang from work went out for the day. There was a mini bus, a sandy lunch with visiting bee, a lovely meal to end the day...and a painting experience. We went to Coronet Bay, a Paint and Sip.  The majority of us were very nervous about our artistic abilities. Most of us claiming none. Yet with the help, tutorage and encouragement from Chris, we all left feeling damn proud of ourselves. Brilliant aren't they? The girls as well. What I learnt most on this day, was to look at things differently. Try to see things from a new perspective. Chris had us turn this page upside down and then begin to copy the image in the empty space. To look not at the picture as a whole, but to see the shapes. The squares, the circles, the lines. I found this totally liberating. And I did run out of space, and my fellow is very out of proportion but I was quite surprised by how close it came to the real deal. Then began the painting. The picture I chose was of a ca...