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You can't see it but there is a huge grin 

on my face. Spring has come early,

it's 28 deg and I have bare arms!!!

Ooh, I'm loving lettin the skin hang out,

not in a rude way but a kinda lettin it breathe 

sorta way.

I've been playing on a few desks this week.

This is my dining table where I drew up 

a backdrop for my Little Misses' class speech today.

They had to write a story about the Aussie Outback

and this is of a naughty emu who stole someones Akubra hat.

 

It's yellow because I took the photo last night and forgot

to turn on the flash.  It's not finished in this photo

but Little Miss took it this morning and I forgot to take another photo first (oops). The other picture I drew was of a dunny (outdoor loo for those who don't know) and yes, I forgot to take a photo of that too.

This is the mess I'm making on one of my other desks.

You can see my bottle of clear gel medium, that's what I mix 

with the paint to form the glaze that I used in class today.

I'm winning the war with my painting, so what more

 could I ask for.  I wasn't happy with the fish painting last

 week.  I did my homework yesterday, that involved

 spattering over the rocks.  It's easy to spatter in a large

 classroom but you try in a small little room filled with

 junk and  other paintings. I covered the floor with

 plastic and  half the things around it, loaded up

 my fan brush with  sloshy paint and had to be

 careful not to just  swoosh it like in class but

 be more dainty (ha that's a joke for me)

 and just lightly shake. Obviously that was just too

 much for my little blonde brain to comprehend as

 when I gently shook the brush the paint went upwards 

all over me instead of downwards onto the canvas. 

Just proves that gently is not my style.

After a lot of swearing and getting splattered

(a piece of advice, keep your mouth closed when doing

 this as it don't taste nice!!!), I got some on the canvas.

Here is where I left my canvas before class this morning.

Still a bit blah!

But then my teacher showed me how to glaze

and this is the under glazing so far.

 It is really starting to look like they are under the water.

 Here you can see the swirls in the actual glaze.

You paint the glaze on and then use a plastic comb

 to give  the direction wanted. In this case the

 swirling water. The light is shining on this 

picture so it looks more white than it is.

There's no class next week, so I might

 get some more of my inking done.

That's my fun for the week, sorry it's so long Julia, 

please don't yell at me :)

How about you go to Julia's Stamping Ground

and see what everyone has on their desks

this beautiful, sunny, warm wednesday.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes last week.