The ACH invited me to do a workshop for them this past January at one of their monthly meetings. I find it to be a bit of a challenge to focus on a good painting (in this case I was doing a portrait of my wife) while at the same time doing my best to offer knowledge that would be beneficial to those listening. In doing so you are using two compeletly different parts of the brain. But the harder part that night was trying to find a pallette to use. The location of this workshop was far from right around the corner so once I was there, there was no going back. I was pretty sure I had everything in tow only to realize that although I had my paints, I had nothing to put them on. Fortunately I'm not one to toss something aside even when I may not need it again so in the trunk of my car I found the cardboard piece I used for the design of the wood pallette I work on regularly (to quote Violet in "A Series of Unfortunate Events", "There's always something"). It actually was not too bad to work with. The paints seeped into the cardboard a bit and made for some dry brush action, but everyone got the jist of what I was doing and seemed to enjoy my pain and suffering!! Below are some pics that kept me laughing for a while. Enjoy!