Friday I went on an overnight retreat with some lovely artist friends.
We stayed at St. Francis of the Woods Spiritual Renewal Center.
Just far enough away from the city that we left it's noise behind without having a long drive.
Perfect.
The weather was as lovely as the company, and soon after arriving we were all outside lounging in the warm sun.
I love being with these creative people...they notice everything.
This weed, with it's pretty little hearts, was pointed out by one of them.
It's easy to miss little things.
In the evening, while this fabulous dinner...
...was cooking, one of the painters in our group led us through a paint mixing exercise and we made our own color wheels.
She was a good teacher, we had a lot of fun, and we all learned new things.
I did not learn how to mix red-orange, though.
I couldn't get the red-orange right for the life of me.
But when I got home and drew the Inchie for April 9th...
...I couldn't get it right then, either!