A giggle

So the Burlingame Plein Air Painters were out in force to paint the tall ships docked at Redwood City Harbor. Great day of painting.

Mine was a laugh.

I realized afterwards that I had inadvertently painted a complete illusion. Since I paint sitting down, I was peering first over, then under and sometimes through the fence at the end of a pier. Not the best way to view the subject. The end result was that I fooled myself into seeing more deck layers of the two ships than actually existed, while I thought I was painting what I "saw"!

What a joke.

Rained out again

We got effectively rained out of our outing in Golden Gate Park at the windmill. A couple made it between the showers, but not me. I met some others in San Mateo's Central Park and did a 10 minute ink sketch in the Japanese Garden instead. Then it drizzled!