My friend Sue and I scheduled a 'play date' for one day a couple of weeks ago. The play date was to spend sometime together drawing or painting whatever we wanted to work on and lunch.
I had found some wonderful coloring pencils at the Hilo art supply store and was anxious to start using them and see how I liked them.
We have been having rain and more rain, but on the day of our play date it was glorious, sunny and cool, so we set up on her very inviting large back lanai with a view of a wonderful stand of bamboo, lots of flowers and many butterflies flitting about.
The fun "mossy" Mr Lava Man at the base of the back lanai steps.
I first started walking around the yard to take photos and see if there was anything in the yard I wanted to draw... Although I finally found inspiration in the kitchen, the walk in Sue's yard is always fun as you never know what you're going to find.
Sue has very good luck with nasturtiums in her yard...they always look so pretty!
She keeps little glass jars, little pitchers and vases all over the house filled with them.
A red passion flower bloom on top of the arbor
Sue is working on a series of little cards she is painting and sharing with a friend in Colorado.
I decided to do a little still life with the items I found in her kitchen. The avo, the bowl of limes and a little bottle filled with nasties that she kept on her kitchen window sill.
My "props" - An avo, a bowl of limes and one of several little jars with nasties she keeps on her kitchen window sill.
Sue, hard at work and "Bamboo Beanie Baby", her siamese cat on the back lanai.
The start of my drawing.........I love the pencils! They are called Woodless Colour Pencils by Koh-I-Noor. One of the things I like best about them is how you can blend in the colors to get shadings.
Lunch was served after her daughter Cindy (who lives next door) came to join us. Sue had made wonderful tuna salad sandwiches with pickles, served a dish of delicious olives and I'm afraid we cut up the avo I was using as a prop to eat with our sandwiches....it was very buttery and onolicious!
Going to Sue's is always an adventure and I had a very good time....oh, yes.... I did finished the drawing at home a couple of days later.
I forgot to get Sue's secret for the delicious tuna salad.