Oddly productive day

Mothers Day so of course I am doing no motherly thing not having one (or grandmothers or aunts or mother-in-law) or being one so I've been pulling creeping charlie (the evil bee fatigueing plant) and working on my homework. Or not working on it but working on something.

A red bartlett pear on a crocheted hot pad made by Joan's cousin in law (Mike's cousin). I am stopping now on this one so I don't wreck it. The pear is about 10 layers of paint. From yesterday's exercise in mixing paint I knew to mix napthol red and phthalo blue-red to get the right red, and to use phthalo blue-green and white to get the turquoise color.

This was painted on a green undercoated board.

The homework was to work on ellipses and I didn't really do that but did a graphite drawing of my mom's china cups. I think this might be too complicated for my current skill level and this might be it. I'll work on something with one ellipse.

Last, I gesso'd some boards white and will paint them a color to see what comes of that idea.