Our Last "Outing" for 2009

Our Watercolor Journaling Group had their last paint out today.... Next, we will be painting and doing our journal pages indoors during the winter months.

It turned out to be a glorious Fall day.... we drove out to West Marin and enjoyed the town of Point Reyes. This happens to be one of my favorite places. I tried to capture a great old Victorian Building on the Main Street. It has wonderful gingerbread.... I sat in front of a small hardware store (borrowing one of their chairs for sale) and enjoyed a cup of coffee from Toby's Feed Barn. There was a steady stream of tourists walking by my spot... very few noticed me. I am getting more and more comfortable doing pages in public these days.

I was treated to lunch by my Artist friends, how very nice!

When I got home and was finishing up my pages, I decided to use the beautiful leaf I that I had picked from a grape vine behind one of the stores. The leaves were a wonderful and brilliant rusty scarlet red. I also decided to use the card from the Station House Cafe. It was a great serendipity to discover that the colors were almost identical between the building's trim and my page with the leaf and the card.

This is the first page of a journal that my daughter, Kate, gave me last year. It has textured watercolor paper (cold press) on one side of each page and smooth (hot press) on the other. This way, you can paint on one side of the book and write easily with a pen on the other side. I have been eager to try it but needed to complete my Moleskin before diving into another journal.

I hope the leaf keeps its brilliant colors.... if not, I have already painted another one on my October 2nd journal page.