Two sessions missed. The first one I knew I’d have to skip: on July 31 I was in Georgia at the Colored Pencil Society of America’s 17th Annual International Exhibition and Convention (I had a piece in the exhibition this year – yay!!). I was hoping others would be at Lake Elkhorn to paint, anyway, but I gather (I have my sources!) that that was not the case. Today I’d hoped to get out to paint, but the nasty chest cold I managed to pick up in Georgia (yes, another cold…feeling real crappy and tired of being sick) made me very disinclined to do anything other than stay in bed and whine. Despite that, however, I did get up and go out with my painting gear. Once I arrived at Lake Kittamaqundi, though, the cloud cover was discouraging, delivering a flat, dull light, with weak shadows. I waited through a couple of little spits of raindrops on my windshield until after 10:00, but no one else came to paint, either, so, not being overly inspired, I went home. We’ll do better next week…
