Comments on: Goodness Grace(ious)

By: Jean

Jean — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:18:46 +0000

It rained today. Just enough to lay the last of the dust storm… and put out the smoke fires on the surrounding hillsides. We need rain. And soon we will have it as the stormy season comes in ahead of the wet. Oddly… I am looking forward to painting storm clouds and the moodiness of the wet season this year. Will just have to wait and see just how wet it gets. And before long I guess we’ll be complaining. Grin.

By: Jean Burman

Jean Burman — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:11:00 +0000

PS I paint a lot of coconut trees out here! LOL This is the third in a series of island triptychs. They are made from imagination… despite the fact that I am virtually on location. I don’t know… somehow the reality of the scene interests me less than the atmosphere of the place. Yesterday the ocean was a bit turbid… with sediment whipped up by a strong south easterly. The sea is sometimes like that here. But in my mind’s eye… the ocean is always tropical on that one perfect day of the year! Funny ’bout that (((chuckles)))

By: Jean Burman

Jean Burman — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:45:16 +0000

Thanks John! I’ve only done a few classes so far at Reef House but I think it could develop into something. It started almost inadvertently with people casually expressing a wish to (someday) paint. You already know what my response to that was! So I printed up a sign and launched off from there. So far so good! Fingers crossed. LOL

By: John Crowther

John Crowther — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:13:44 +0000

And you’re a born teacher, Jean, I’m sure. Somebody once asked me which I preferred, teaching or “doing,” and I replied that I couldn’t separate them and couldn’t imagine having to give up one or the other.