Forest Home Cemetery 7/6/11

I pulled up and saw Angelika's red car and her walking around. So I walked over by her and we walked around and pretty soon Bonnie pulled up.

Neither wanted to go down into the hollow. I ran down and took pictures of the man-made lagoon. Water was dirty brown with stuff floating in it. So we stayed up in the shade by some bright, orange, tiger lillies. Angelika paints acrylics quite large for plein air probably about 16x20? Wisconsin is green in the summer and gray in winter. She painted me sitting down and painting. That was so cool. Then 2 more people showed up so there was 5 of us in total and we all painted in a group. Bonnie painted with water soluble oil pastels, one person painted watercolor abstracts and Sharon painted in oil.

One of the workers riding in the golf car stopped to see what we were doing but didn't approach us, so I waved at him. Some bicyclists rode by. Very peaceful. I like cemeteries.

There was a double bridge going over the lagoon that had a small island in the middle of it. I struggled to paint it but it turned out ok. I used the same paints as last Sunday; yellow, ultramarine blue, burnt sienna & white. There is such a range in the color of green. I like to mix on the canvas. You can get a real nice dark with burnt sienna and ultramarine blue.

There were a few mosquitoes but not enough that you were breathing them in and the insect repellent kept them away quite well. It's been in the 80s the last few days so we hung out in the shade with the mosquitoes.