The artists in the colony had a pot luck dinner tonight, salad, focaccia, pasta, lots of cookies, some German treats, lentil salad, salmon/potato hor d euvres, really nice evening by the pool, no bugs, perfect weather.
I painted this morning with Patrica and tried a landscape today, will work on it again, not sure if I like the outcome. I think I would rather paint the nature in more close-up views. But I would like to design some paintings with more buildings, combining man-made structures with the natural elements and how they intertwine with each other. I might start another painting today.
Kursten (artist), Jorge, Adela, Roxy (artist), Jonathan, Patricia (artist), Katherine (writer), Shelley (artist/writer), Avery (resident curmudgeon) and Forrest & Simon (dogs). A couple other artists went to the beach for holiday. Colony employees went to home, they want to get as far from this place on holidays. We all discussed, that if you could live like a Tico, it can be very inexpensive to live here all the time, but coming from the states, living expenses are very much the same, the economy is very stable here, but groceries are about the same, gas is very expensive, and always has been, but public transportation is cheap, .50 c to go locally and maybe $10-20 to go cross country, but of course not as convenient, changing buses, time, but worth seeing this beautiful country.
