We started Thursday morning all of us making the two hour journey from Atlanta. Once there, we all walked around the property picking out places that we might want to paint. Everyone scattered out to paint all over and tried to hide from the raindrops. We were pretty successful at that and produced some great paintings. There will be a slideshow of them for you to see the finished works.
Dinner brought out the food and it was wonderful. Diana had planned chili which was perfect for the cool fall evening. We had a great time telling stories before settling in for the evening. The moon just didn't cooperate!
Everyone made concrete leaves as a special event and they turned out great. They were especially neat because Sallie had brought some pigments that she had gotten on a painting trip to France. We put the pigments on the leaves before putting the concrete on them to make them look like fall had just been dusted into them. We had angel trumpet leaves, napa cabbage and ornamental cabbage leaves, but you can use any heavily veined leaves. Once you see them you'll get even more ideas of things that you can do with this process. 
Friday morning we were a little late getting up... thought we'd be up alot earlier than 7:30. The coffee and smell of Sallie's breakfast casserole and other goodies gradually got the sleepy heads up. While we were getting things together to paint the new arrivals started coming in.
We began setting up our easels where we wanted to paint and got started. Some of them chose to paint in the studio with setups they had made from all over the house. We overcame a rainy day on Friday and produced wonderful paintings from the front porch, the back porch, under the porch, the bedroom windows, and the shed beside the storage barn. Tracie and Judy were studio painters...
Rena and Diana were back porch painters ...
Sallie and Sally were painting outside under cover
We all had a wonderful dinner Friday evening and toasted those that couldn't come.
