What a lovely day to join up again for our first easyart session after the summer break. Still hot, & sunny, but plenty of room to spread out into the garden with a couple of tables for 3, & two who stayed inside in the cool, along with two more on zoom. So I was scooting around between all eager artists, who as ever were absorbed in each of their own attempts at painting the really rather tricky subject of the cascade at Sillans-la-Cascade.

Obviously skies & greenery are all O.K. now, but trying to find a way of depicting water falling was hard, & we varied between leaving plain white paper, with thin watery blue/grey rivulets, or using masking fluid, & some who used wax to keep the white flood of water. Then some used a twig to draw in the thin tree branches at the top left of the picture, a really effective way to get spidery lines.

Several versions of the turquoise, translucent water appeared, which is a special colour, & can be achieved with a mix of cerulean blue & lemon yellow- or a turquoise straight from the pan!

Different versions of the sandy surround & the various trees make each person’s painting so individual, & everyone was pleased – up to a point……but maybe I’ll choose something a bit simpler next time- like a sunflower field! This is all experimental, so will be happy to take on other suggestions as we go along, but certainly sunflowers are part of the area & hopefully we’ll try & single flower as well at the end- watch this space.