Seriously? Snow? Down here? Sure, it didn't seem so out of bounds for there to be fresh snow up at altitude. It's obviously a cooler, wetter spring than the one we had last year. I could even accept that Boulder was going to see a few flakes, being smushed right up to the mountains. But way out here, on the eastern edge of the county? I didn't believe it would happen. I thought Weather Channel was pulling my leg. Yet when I looked outside, right before bed, my car and my lawn were covered in white. My trees are bent way over, but I'm not going outside to shake them off. I'm done for the night.
We ran around a little today. I tagged along when the Mr needed to go price out materials for a fence at Lowe's, so I could buy Floetrol and Elmer's Glue-All in gallon sizes. If I'm going to keep doing this painting stuff (hint: I am), they had the best prices and the biggest quantities. I'm kinda done with Wal-Mart not having what I need. We had to run to Boulder, and stopped at the best pho place in the county, satisfying the craving I've been trying to fight for days. And we tried to pick up barley products for our cloudy fish pond, but the expert on site at the plant nursery talked us into upgrading the filter setup first. (Now we plan to put a home-built under gravel filter in it. How long will that take to accomplish?)
I closed out my day thinking I was ready to step up from illustration board to canvas. I started on a tiny 5x7 canvas that I had floating around for years, so if I made mistakes, I wasn't wasting a big one. Yeah, I made mistakes. Lots of them. My new pouring medium mixture was too thin, for one. The first attempt with highlighter colors was almost completely green, and the cells exploded and the paint ran right off into the tray. So I scraped it all off and tried again. This time the paint came out really well, but as I was picking it up to move it to a drying rack, it slipped and I stuck my thumb in it when I caught it. I scraped it again, and set it aside to dry off. I switched instead to a black canvas with primary colors in a swipe. I messed up badly the first time on that too, and scraped for a third time. I tried a different method, and told myself if it didn't work this time, I would just walk away. I came up with something I like, mostly. I might paint a figure on it after the swiped cells dry. Now I am hoping that it is level enough not to slide off the canvas into the tray while I sleep.
If I'd have believed it would snow, I probably wouldn't have left geraniums on the porch.
Best pho around. Best.
Things that look like faces #24150: the drip catcher from the first few paintings.
Attempt 1: paints too thin, cells broke, paint just slid right off the canvas.
Attempt 2: I liked it, but it was still a little thin, and I dropped it and wrecked it. Scraped and mourned.
After a mistake on the black canvas, I tried again, this time pouring puddles onto a base coat, then swiping out from the center.
Older daughter says it looks like a prog rock band's album cover. She's not wrong.
I feel like I see two sinister faces in profile, looking left.
I didn't believe it would snow, but yet, here it is.
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