1:57 PM: i was half thinking i’d prepare a few small linen canvas surfaces in preparation for some plein air, possibly on monday, since tomorrow is trail walk day. but then i felt the urge to continue work on the very lightly painted watercolor 109. so i did. it’s not lightly painted any more!
too heavy handed? let me sit with it for a while, then bring it to the house to see what mikela thinks.
BELOW left: thursdays version, right: todays
BELOW: i made a couple of quick sketches in colored pencil in the doctors waiting room. both of them left before i could complete the drawing, so in in the one on the left, i substituted the head, in profile, of a different figure.
this is currently my favorite ipa, brewed in lafayette, colorado by liquid mechanics brewing
8:28 AM: we did a 12 hour trip to denver yesterday, leaving 6:45 am and returning 6:45 pm, 3 1/2 hours of driving each way. the temperature when we started our drive was 52 F. as we left denver yesterday at 3pm, the temperature was up to 103 F! and when we got home at 6:45, a very comfortable 72F.
we dropped off our loaner car & picked up our repaired one, with a brand new windshield; picked up 3 motion oils and 3 large motion pencil on paper pieces from space gallery for my carbondale show next month; went food & beer shopping (found my favorite ipa) and saw my specialist about shoulder & groin issues. he diagnosed my shoulder as impingement syndrome of the right shoulder. ice & physical therapy.
a very long day! i’ll be back in my studio in an hour or so, and see what happens today and if i start a new watercolor. based upon what my doc said about my shoulder & groin, i may be able to start making some small oils as well as resuming our morning trail walks!
re: hopacity one reviewer gave it 4.03 out of 5 and said: ”Nice fruity aroma that is not too sweet and holds an earthy quality at the same time. Semi-cloudy golden am er with large off-white head. Drinks smoothly with full hop flavor of fruit and a little grass. Has touches of sweetness but avoids going to sweet fruit flavor. Soft bittering from from to back that does not grow in intensity very much. A nice drinking ale. Complex enough to offer thoughts, but not too intense. Pleasing. A couple of these would be nice.”
BELOW: the views of our san luis valley at 7:07am, heading out of crestone/baca for denver.
