My current series of work is moving right along.  I am now adding shadows to create depth to this work:  note how I am using a blue tone for the shadows: this is borrowed from the French Impressionist Painters.  Even before I was an art teacher, I was developing lesson plans.  Once finished with my BA in Fine Art Degree from Moorhead State University, Dave and I spent a summer in Indianapolis.  He had a 3 month officer’s training with the U. S. Army.  For the first time in my life, I did not have to do anything:  3 months wasn’t worth going out to try to find a temporary job, so I began my art career.  I read a great deal about the Impressionists: this was an area I had not fully   explored in my education.  So, I read and observed from books.  I then gave myself some challenges in my paintings:  working for some of the techniques and philosophy of the Impressionists.  The use of color was eye-opening to me.  The lack of black was also of major impact, especially in my watercolor painting.  Those self-imposed lessons are still with me today:  adding blue and purple to my shadows, not merely going darker, to create increased depth in my painting.