The art class met for the last session on Saturday. We’ll break now until mid-September. There were only two students who were able to make it as it’s a holiday weekend here and the others had trips planned or other gatherings. For the first part of class we just sat around and chatted. We do this every week and it’s one of my favorite parts of class. We often chat about personal stuff which is cool because not everyone knows each other well but I think we all like to share a little of whatever is going on. This is a women’s class after all! So great that everyone feels free to be themselves. Anyway in art we’re trying to get to what’s important and interesting to us in terms of what we create.

When we did get to drawing we each did something totally different. We worked large again and, curiously, what had been so energizing the previous couple of weeks seemed a bit daunting, even draining, this time. None of us did stellar work. We weren’t that focused and I didn’t give direction. Often direction really does help but it was good to see just what we would do without it too. On person did a kind of narrative drawing that told the story in a visual way of things she was thinking about. Another felt that her first attempt at a piece simply didn’t work so she stopped and started on something else. My own piece was the beginning of an exploration I will likely continue but in its first expression was way too busy and muddy. I’ll do some new things next time and the director of the center has offered to give us a model which will be great to draw from too.

So—Saturday was just a low-key kind of day. Now we break for summer and, as luck would have it, summer arrived today, right on time! So beautiful to be outside in the warm sunshine today. I pootled around the North End, the Italian area of Boston, with my wonderful daughter and had a great lunch at a tiny little place on Hanover Street. So many visual treats, especially the new park that now stands where that ugly overpass used to be. And tomorrow I’ll get some more soil and plant the last of my tomatoes and a few beans in pots on the patio, maybe even have dinner outside. It’s time to chill a little here!

May 26th, 2008 | Category: Some Good News | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL