Yesterday, I participated in part I of a two part art class taught by Anneli Pendley.  Anneli is a local artist involved with the Redlands Conservancy.  As part of their fundraiser, she graciously offered the class to interested parties. There were six of us in all, and the day turned out to be fun as well as educational.  We went from learning basic color theory to drawing with chalk. I have never worked with chalk, so it was  a great learning experience for me. Anneli also served a wonderful lunch which we ate out on her sunny patio.   Here is a photo of our little group:

And here are the two drawings I completed:

They are both of local canyons with orange trees to the front.

I attended a Photograph and Image Editing workshop today at the RAA. Our instructor was Lisa Mozzini-McDill. It turned out to be an informative class since I was never really aware of the optimum conditions for taking photos – I always thought more light the better. And, also learing about image editing techniques – I usually did the Ctrl-L, fix the brightness thing. As an example, I took a painting my sister did of me when I was a teenager. We took photos of our artwork, downloaded it onto our PC’s and went at it. Here are some examples of image enhancements and adjustments(the upper left photo is the original):

And here are a couple of shots of our instructor and fellow students taking photos of artwork: