Oil Painting

This semester I decided to take advantage of my free audit class at George Fox. I'm taking an oil painting class. We meet two times a week for 3 hours each time. It's been a really great addition to my life. Once the jazz music starts to play, I get in a zone and the painting happens.

This is our first project that is actually due today. I was supposed to paint 4 different pears each from a different time period. The main pear is the early northern renaissance, the far left is the cubist, the middle is very tiny but it's supposed to be an impressionist pear and then the last one is an expressionist pear.

I'm learning that it takes a VERY long time for oil paints to dry. It can take up to a week for one layer to dry enough to add another layer on top of it. I guess for an oil painting to fully dry it takes 6 months to a year!!

So here are some pictures from a retreat I went to with the tilikum staff. The view from the back door was the best so here they are.


Out the back door



At the ski resort




And a HUGE dougnut!

Forbes Christmas

Here are a few pictures from our Christmas in Michigan with the family. We forgot to take pictures of our weekend in Ohio with the Forbes family, but we'll try to get some from the family later to post them.
We've had a great time here seeing family and friends. It's snowed a few days while we've been here.
It's been a great vacation!