Container day!

Look what came on the container! My Easter box, complete with Easter bonnet! Thanks Mom! 

It was then, of course, time for tea....

Sunset

This was my view as I finished work and stepped outside tonight.

Easter 2015

Art Club

I've been enjoying art club on Sunday afternoons, learning about pastels at the moment...

This waterfall is unfinished as I could only attend half the class. I think my rocks look like half a mango that has been diced and turned inside out.

This waterfall I completed, although it was technically challenging. I was happier with the rocks though. 

I enjoyed learning about colour use in this lesson about trees and foliage. Who knew that dark blue is the first thing you use to draw a tree? It gives the brown that is overlaid a more realistic look. Then grey, orange and black are used for the shadows and highlights. 

I love sunsets and bright colours and was pleased with the outcome. 

These clouds were fun to play with. It reminds me of 'Eileen's song' by Burlap to Cashmere: 

'You have one wing, I have another
Seeking shelter like sister and brother
Through the winter and through the summer
Like one angel, we'll fly far away'

This was a Kandinski style lesson, such fun with bright, saturated colours!

Step out of the boat

Northern Lights: 'It will flame out' Gerard Manley Hopkins poem

Cape Town

For I know...

A gift of wall art by Jen - my favourite verse!

Thanksgiving on the Africa Mercy

Arrival in Madagascar

A water display by one of the tugs to welcome us into port.