#260, 261 and 262 My hotel room, 12/28/19

The week before Christmas I was on a business trip to Vermont, a training class for some new software at work.  I'm not a fan of this software, but the decision to use it was not mine to make.  But the software is mine to make work.  Ugggh, trying to keep a good attitude, but I'm not succeeding.  Between work and holiday prep I haven't been able to paint.  So when I was packing for the trip to Vermont I thought I'd take some canvases. What else would there be to do after class???  Well the new job meant a new laptop, which I can take on trips like this....so I am able to work at all hours.  But one night I put the laptop down and sketched what was in front of me....my lovely hotel room, at the Hilton Doubletree in Burlington.  It was a nice room.  Once I was home, and the holiday rush was over, I painted my sketches.  We have the conversation corner, the desk lamp and the trusty Keurig coffee machine.  Shadows and light was my theme for the first two....just getting the shape and function of the Keurig was the third.  I kept the palette very limited.  I don't know that these will appeal to anyone besides myself, but I enjoyed the exercise mostly because it put a paintbrush back in my hand!