Despite the cold we had a few people for the first session of the year. Margaret was doing a lovely piece of embroidery and Jenny was using a pallet knife for the first time with oil paints. I was struggling with a portrait that I had started last year and because I use the oil paint really thickly, it had dried in ridges and therefore I found it difficult to apply new paint to blend in. Maxine was working on a still life which will eventually be a stylised picture of wine and cheese.