My workshop piece at this moment....

 I've a good start on my piece but a very long way to go...  The title of the workshop was "Cottages Galore" but the main focus was creating perspective and depth with fabric, color, stitching and embellishment.  There were five in the class and we were all to bring a picture of a cottage or house and there was a variety including my little victorian cottage, Holly's English cottage, Cindy's contemporary home, Doreen's family ranch style, and Becky's southwestern adobe cottage.

Getting the cottage to silk as a watercolor was a very involved day-long process. Our photos were put into the computer and photoshop made them into a line drawing which we  then transferred  to watercolor paper and painted ... The   watercolor was scanned into the computer and printed on silk. It took the entire day and part of the evening.

I picked a little house only a block from my favorite thrift store. It is surrounded by  commercial buildings and faces a parking lot.  It is obviously a rental as it has no garden and junk everywhere... But every time we pass it I always comment on how I love that little house and am delighted to give it the garden it deserves.

At this point I'm still working on the sky and have decided I need to add more darker patches to anchor the lower left. Of course that means picking out the patches I already have there...

In the last hour of the last day Judith was showing us how she does trees and the little tree you see is just basted there so I could remember the technique.

It needs to be removed and made MUCH larger to be in the proper perspective,  The path is hard to see now and will not stand out until it is embellished and beaded.

This will all take a while as it is too large a piece to tote along as is my usual practice.  Almost everything I've worked on in the last 18 months has been 7-9" and this piece is about 12 x 15"

My knowledge of Mexican food is about at the Taco Bell level.  So when Holly said she was bringing ingredients to make mojitos I expected something like a burrito....  NOT and boy are they good!!!