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Jed’s Gift

One of the “joys” of painting on location when you take Jed and Lincoln is that you often are presented with gifts!  Here is Jed bringing a “gift” to us while we were working. Here is a close-up of the “gift” – a deer skull with some hair still attached!  YUCK!!! After accepting the “gift”, [...]

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Yesterday afternoon I attended an event for the Blue Ridge Arts Council (BRAC) here in Front Royal.  This event is held every other year and several artists are invited to paint on location while attendees watch their progress.  Then the painting is auctioned off for the benefit of  BRAC.  Here is Michelle Summers hard at [...]

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And yes, I did paint while I was at the Paint-out.  There were so many wonderful feature to photograph that I did take some time to walk around the yard and by the river and creek and get some reference photos for my file.  But finally I settled in and set up my easel on [...]

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This is the little creek that feeds into the river (See Monday’s postings) at Robin’s house.  There was so much beauty – everywhere you looked, especially along this little creek.         And terrific features to paint like this little bridge that leads to the main house.  As beautiful as the place is, [...]

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Robin’s beautiful home near Romney was the site of the Paint-out on Saturday.  How wonderful that she shared her wonderful location with us.  She explained that the original part of the house dates back to the late 1700′s and it has been added on to many times over the last 300 years.      There [...]

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One thing I love to do is gather with other artist to paint.  This weekend there was a Paint-Out in Hampshire County, West Virginia where my cabin is located.  I joined their Arts Council last year and when I got an invitation to attend the Paint-out I jumped at the chance.  We met at Robin  [...]

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