ART RETREAT in ESTES PARK, CO - Day Two

Friday was a day of Yoga on the Shuffleboard Court, Rainbow Mandalas, Shrimp Tacos, and Clothing Memories.

The morning started off sunny and beautiful -- and stayed that way all day!

After an early morning yoga session and breakfast, we all met with our coffee on the covered deck of the main house for our Morning Gathering . . . 

Kristi

Connie

simple breakfast setup in the kitc

Pushpa

After our morning meeting, we walked down to the Art Studio in the barn.  Our project for today would be Rainbow Mandalas . . . 

Pat demonstrated constructing the mandala, and talked about (and demonstrated) mingling paint, mixing paint on the paper, wet-in-wet;  warm/ cool color temperature, and painting a warm-to-cool color kaleidoscope mandala, rather than a color wheel mandala.

Then, it was time for everyone to start on her own mandala . . .

We had all the doors open on this beautiful day!

Rainbow Mandala Mingling in progress

Time to take our Lunch Break . . . 

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Mo in the kitchen, whipping up some yummy shrimp tacos for us

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Then, back to work . . . 

Pushpa

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Maggie's findings for her collages

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Lisa

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Pat demonstrating the Flower of Life

Ta Da !

I guess that means our work is done here for the day . . . 

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We met on the deck again in the evening, to show our Rainbow Mandalas . . . 

painting by Kristi

painting by Jane

paintings by Cheri

painting by Maggie

Maggie

drink some wine . . . and water . . . lots of water!

painting by Cathy

Cathy

painting by Connie

Connie and Cheri

painting by Pushpa

Pushpa

painting by Lisa

 . . . and to share all our wonderful Clothing Memory stories . . . 

Lisa

and to enjoy the unbeatable view of the Rocky Mountains . . . 

A lovely end to a busy, fun, creative, beautiful, and productive day . . . 

ART RETREAT in ESTES PARK, CO - Day One

Our 3rd annual Painted Prism Art Retreat in Estes Park, was a great success. We had a wonderful group of women for 4 days, July 12-16, 2018.  Our time in Estes seemed to fly by!

The entrance gate to Aspen Falls -- our Estes Park home for 4 days.

Cathy, Connie, and Cheri came a day early, with me, and helped set up.

Everyone arrived by Thursday afternoon. It was rainy and chilly, but still beautiful. And, after our Mexican Welcome Dinner and Introduction in the Main House, we walked down to the Art Studio in the Barn, and kicked off the retreat with a Musical Chairs Painting Game . . . 

After Pat explained the game, everyone sat down and started painting (with music playing in the background.)

After painting for 10 minutes, Pat told everyone to "stop, put down your brush, get up, move to your right, sit down again, pick up that brush, and start painting on that painting."

About halfway through the game, an elk strolled by to see what we were doing . . . 

After changing seats and paintings about 6 times, everyone was asked to finish the painting in front of her . . . 

They were all so engrossed in their paintings that they hardly noticed the elk walking by.

It was fun to see all the collaborations on one board -- and it was a great way to relax and loosen up at the start of our retreat!

As we walked back to our cabins and rooms, we were all looking forward to the next day!

Upcoming WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP at Vallecito Lake

Please join me for my August workshop at Vallecito Lake, near Durango, CO:

This will be a 3-day workshop again this year, but I've moved it up to August, rather than September.  The Willson's garden will be even more fun to draw and paint in August, and it should be a bit warmer, too!

The cost of the workshop is $285.  If you're interested in signing up, contact me at: thepaintedprism@gmail.com

Our morning gathering in the Willson's lovely living room

Drawing in our sketchbooks, from real life

What a lovely way to spend a day!

Critique and sharing at the end of each day . . . with wine, of course!