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Visited Kennedy Space Center today with my brother-in-law John.

Today there were three different rockets on launch pads, the Artemis Moon Rocket, a SpaceX Rocket that will take satellites into space tomorrow, and a SpaceX Rocket that will launch 4 people into space on Saturday. We could see them in the distance but couldn’t get any closer.

Saturn 5/Apollo Rocket lying on its side in stages. It’s huge.

Space Shuttle Atlantis

Hubble Telescope replica

Redstone Rocket that took Allen Shepherd into space. For me it was surprisingly small.

Got my painting back from Michael’s. They did a great job. If you have an account there you regularly get emails advertising 70% off custom frames. This was just over $100 for an 18″ x 18″ painting.

Did a little work on the linen. Need to do a good job on it.

Folds in linen are difficult for me so I drew some folds with pencil as a guide. I think if I can get the linen right this might end up being a good painting. Today I’m also glueing linen to 11 x 14 boards for my trip.

Used the paints I mixed yesterday to work on the background, plate, dish, and table of Still Life 2.

On the way out to the Bighorn Mountains I stay one night at Adrian, Minnesota Campground at the border of Minnesota and South Dakota and at Reuter Campground near Sundance, Wyoming.

Took quite a while to mix the colors I’ll need to continue painting the dish, cup, and table of Still Life 2. Mixing exact colors is deceptive and difficult for me. I have some things to do so a drop of clove oil on each color and some plastic wrap will keep the paint wet for days.

When there is a gallery of photos like this each one can be clicked on to enlarge.

Worked on Still Life 2. Painted the first step of the apples.

By Monday I should be able to resume painting my still life paintings. They are still a little wet.

My paintings are pretty much still wet but they can be painted on in areas. The landscape is the one painting that was for the most part dry. I’m using an old school medium made up of different mediums that dry slowly. This summer when I’ll be painting on the road I’ll have to use a fast drying alkyd medium. Made some progress on the landscape,

All of my paintings are wet so I’ll tie some flies for this summer. I’ll be fishing hopper/dropper rigs which is a small grasshopper or a big buoyant dry fly and a nymph dropper. I want to try a very popular nymph, the Perdigon. It’s a very sparse fly, designed to sink fast into a little pocket on a small stream. I made the “hot spot” a little big.