Beer: (made you look)
Earlier this winter I painted the label art for Lowry's Sugar Maple Ale. (I'm hopelessly behind right now, so this is old news) This specialty brew was created by Excelsior Brewing and debuted in mid March and a portion of each sale goes toward our project to revamp our maple syruping evaporator setup at Lowry Nature Center. Is there any beer left? I have no idea, it was a small batch and selling quick. What I do know is we're still maple syruping at work, and it's a dog and pony show every time we pour from the evaporator. It's a labor of love. Haul sap, cook all day in evaporator, cook all day inside to finish and bottle. What's that smell?! Oh crap, it's boiling over! We will ALL look forward to having an evaporator that doesn't require 3-4 of us and the skill of a synchronized swimming team to pour off. It will still be a labor of love, but less chance of burning someone with boiling sap. We do have 2018 syrup for sale at Lowry Nature Center and proceeds from that will go toward Operation New Evaporator.
Programs:
I'm primarily an oil painter, but I do occasionally paint in watercolor. It's growing on me. Watercolors are a lot easier to travel with than a giant easel full of oil paint.
Coming soon, I will lead a Wildflowers and Watercolors program on Mother's Day at Lowry Nature Center. I really had hoped to paint wildflowers before the program but mother nature is having none of it! We just got a record blizzard here. It'll be awhile before spring does anything, well, spring-like. But I will post updates as I get closer to the program for those who are interested in painting and a spring wildflower walk.
Time to get that in gear before leading a program. However, it's pretty hard to paint outside with watercolor until the weather starts acting a bit more spring-like.
(Cape May warbler study in watercolor)
We'll be feeling sorry for ourselves for awhile here, with about 20 inches of snow. Huh? Spring? Hang in there. It'll happen. Until next time.
-Laurel
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