Slow on the uptake

Well, so far, I'm not doing that great, I have missed 2 days this last week, of course I still have today, I'm heading out to get started. Saturday my friends and I went to a PAAWM scheduled paint out, that's Plein Air Artists of West Michigan, I don't get to very many, but I guess I'm a member. It was cold, and we missed the critique, but all in all, it was nice, I'm thinking that I should have taken my pastels instead of the watercolors. I put alcohol in the water, but it wasn't enough to keep it from freezing on the palette and a bit on the paper, of course at this point in my life, the watercolors seem to call my name, I used to paint strictly with pastels, but somewhere along the line, my brain switched me to the watercolor. It could be because I went to so many watercolor workshops, for many years, during the pastel years, I belonged to the SWMWS, which is the South West Michigan Watercolor Society, I was only working in Pastels, I know, strange, but then I've always been different. Anyway, here are my 2 small watercolors that were painted on Saturday, the first one is just in the beginning stages, my water was freezing so I started a different view.