However, there is also the opportunity to pounce on some willing victims, and turn them into canvases - which is a great adjunct to the music. Sitting painting someone in a bush surrounding, with folk music all around - well, it doesn't come much better than that.
Anyway - here are a couple of the results from this year's Turramurra camp.
This is Nadia - sporting a black pearl necklace. Nadia is an absolute delight to paint. Her skin was definitely designed by a body-painter! All that - and a whizz-bang dancer as well.
This is Kaetlyn. On the first day, I painted Kaetlyn up in a single pearl pendant. She mentioned that she was wearing a blue dress to the "Saturdee night dance" which is a regular event at Turramurra - and we discussed roughly what sort of blue - and it seemed I might have had something to match - so we plotted a replacement necklace for the event. As it turned out, we could hardly have generated a better match. Kaetlyn makes a stunning canvas - and a pleasure to talk with while painting.