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sketching. We all got to practice using these broad brushes trying to execute

calligraphic type suggestions of penguins. She also showed us how to crumple rice

paper and use the broad brushes to create wonderfully suggestive (Japanese-looking)

mountains, clouds and foregrounds for Antarctic scenes. After we created our

mountain backgrounds, we were to add the calligraphic penguins.

My mountains were not too bad, but the penguins were pretty pathetic. The other

activity today was choosing what in our sketchbooks we wanted MJ to copy for the

wine and cheese party we are having to demonstrate the work we have been doing.

She will make copies of those to be projected and we are each supposed to make

comments about the pictures to the group.

At 4 PM, Kay became the “Big Shew” and her presentation came off wonderfully well.

The pictures themselves were sensational and her commentary was funny, satiric,

pointed, and very well received. Everybody thoroughly enjoyed the show & Lois

heard comments afterward to the effect that Kay’s presentation was “tremendous”.

Patricia and Marco added even more to the entertainment by creating a clever quiz

for some competition between the Albatrosses and Boobies. It was definitely a “ya

hadda be there” experience but it sure had us all laughing uproariously.

At Recap Patricia presented the results of the quiz, which the Albatrosses won by the

slimmest of margins: 91.5% to 90.5%. She and Marco had put the results on a

spreadsheet so that we could even see which questions created which percents. In

other words, where did we all do best and worst? We all had a cackle-fest over that

too - so this was the best Recap as well as the best presentation!

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