I Did Art Stuff

I actually got out a pencil and watercolor paper today and sketched a rose (this rose) twice. 

I need to figure out a place here where I can work. Do I try in the basement?? That would be good for not worrying about getting paint or anything on the carpet, but I don't trust that it would be a safe space. Plus I'd like natural light and the basement is a bit dark. After Abi leaves this summer, maybe I'll move all the boys in one room and the girls into another, and I'll get the third bedroom for art? Or I could try to make better use of my work areas in the music room, launry room, or bedroom. Hmm, think think think... 

I also watched this beginner's guide video by "Paint Coach" - fundamentals: drawing, color, value, composition, edges. I'm going to take his advice to just start doing little exercises to figure thing and test things out. I have lots of photos that I can use for small landscape studies, he said to do things that you can get done in 1-3 sittings. I also liked his suggestion of painting the whole canvas a darker color so you're not starting on white and feeling like everything will be a darker value. Good tips. 

Hyrum headed back up to Rexburg, he'll be attending school during the spring & summer semester. 

You're a total catch Hyrum. We get to have Wes hang out with us here a little longer. He's doing FSY next month. 

Sophi is anxious to earn money to ger her phone fixed, so I said I'd teach her how to make sourdough and she and Lily can do that. I posted on the neighborhood group me that my girls are selling bread and they already got rave reviews from the bread I've been giving out and they got 3 orders tonight. Then I taught Sophi how to make it. 

One of the loaves tonight that I let Sophi score looked pretty bad in my opinion and I was a little embarrassed by it. I think I'll pass the sourdough training over to Lily though so I don't have to know or worry about it. I'll still be cooking too and aiming to give out a free loaf everyday. Today gave one to Donna Kay after Kathy O and I went over there for a visit.

For date night tonight I suggested we leave between 5-6 so we could finish eating around 7 and have two hours for whatever at the rec center. But Corey was trying to get past something at work, so ended up being 7, and so I again suggested that we just go to someplace quick like Costa Vida so we'd have time to go to the gym. So we did, food was fine, at the gym to play racquetball but Corey wasn't feeling it. After he endured 25 min of racquetball and me goofing off in the Cross Fit room for a minute, I decided to have mercy/give up and we went home. He apologized for not "feeling it". I said it's ok, cause as evidenced by this whole past week, sometimes I'm not feeling it either. So wasn't much of a workout. I'll prob go early in the morning before soccer games start at 9.