And first homework: an exercise of drawing

from the right side of the brain - Shirl's is on the right.

Starting with the easy flower and looking at the possibility of doing complicated horses...

at the table in the kitchen with magic light of the late afternoon

with all the tools of her trade - pencils from Glasgow, sharpener from Florence, eraser from Croatia, and nice long ruler from Utrecht,

Along with the notebook in which she has been writing since November 10, 2011 and the calligraphy pen she uses.

and an amazing result when you turn it right side up! 

Shirl's first masterpiece

in her Drawing Class - seeing the dark and the light

Just one pic of rowing on the Charles

Rowan concentrating on throwing the sack

on a beautiful Sunday afternoon on the lawn by the Charles River in Cambridge in the Fall

And Rowan discovers another kind of cat

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