Art Soup, Boots and Just Hangin'

So!  I absolutely love hanging with other artists.  I traveled to Patris' Studio and Gallery for "Pop Up Friday and Art Soup Luncheon" recently and it was a wonderful, artful day of sketching, meeting new people, getting together with some past friends and having a great conversation about the art of marketing ourselves as artists to eventual sales of our creations.

That's me in the white coat.  Our model was a young girl, Beth, in blue jeans and boots.  She fidgeted a little but was fun to sketch in that her skin is wrinkle free, she still has that rounded jaw of a  youngster with eyelashes to match.  Here's a couple of examples of what I did:

 Patris has a fulll kitchen in the gallery, so she put on a big pot of broth in the morning.  Sherm brought chicken, somebody brought corn, we had some lemon grass and garlic for spices, I brought yellow squash and zuchinni and a feast was had with breads and some garlic toast that were also contributed.  Mmmmm, such a nice day:   to enjoy the aroma of soup cooking, the sound of Tony Bennett singing in the background, doing what we love to do without the disturbances of everyday life for just a moment in time.

I end with a view of our model, Beth so you can compare it with what I did.  In critiquing each others work, we painters agreed that our work may not end up looking like the person modeling, but surely somewhere in the world there is a person that looks like our work.