Painting class

On Friday I had half a day of work. The other half was a team activity for the tech writing team! Yay for half days of work and fun activities!

Our team activity was painting class. Painting, and art in general, is not something I'm good at or prefer to spend too much time on. But I was up for trying something new!

We caught a cab from the office and headed out to an art gallery in Sydney's inner west. The gallery was really cool, and there was afternoon tea waiting for us when we arrived.

There was also an art gallery dog, who was super friendly.

Our first art endeavor was painting with bamboo sticks and black paint. While this might sound simplistic, it was right at my skill level.

Some instruction on how to be in touch with the left side of our brains and paint with confidence

I had a few successes.

And one really disturbing miss.

Not a grenade - it's supposed to be a turtle

We also did some watercolor painting toward the end of the day.

Susan with her amazing painting of Coit Tower

Mine is the giraffe at the far bottom

We lined up for a final group shot with all of our collective artwork.

And then it was time for the weekend!

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