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Plein Air Sunflowers

Posted in daily painter, Plein Air, tagged Plein Air, sunflowers on August 22, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Plein Air Sunflowers This photo popped up in a memory feed from 6 years ago and reminded me that we need to get out and do more plein air workshops, don’t you think?

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Happy Creek Plein Air

Posted in daily painter, Landscape, Paint Party, Plein Air, tagged Happy Creek on May 17, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Happy Creek in Plein Air A few weeks ago we painted down by Happy Creek en plein air (outside in open air). It was a fun morning and I got a good start to a little landscape. (See that post here.) Yesterday I got around to finishing this one. And we will be offering it as a Paint Party on Tuesday, June 4th at 6 pm. Click here to register.

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Plein Air in the Park Seminar

Posted in Art Class, Landscape, Plein Air, Serendipity, tagged Plein Air Seminar, Shenandoah National Park on May 11, 2019| 1 Comment »

Lincoln and I spent the day at Shenandoah National Park at the “Painting in the Park Seminar: Nature as a Starting Place” with Kevin H. Adams. Kevin was the 2017 Artist in Residence for the park. (Read and see more about that here.) The seminar focused on the challenges of plein air painting with the focus on landscapes. While the weather was a little damp and cool….and the clouds dropped down low on the top of the mountain so we couldn’t even see our subject for a little while, it was still a terrific seminar.

Kevin offered tips and suggestions to improve painting in plein air.

And being in the park is always nice. There is so much material so I took many reference photos that I hope to paint soon.

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Plein Air This Morning

Posted in daily painter, Plein Air, tagged Happy Creek, Plein Air on April 23, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Finally got a chance to get out and paint at a perfect little spot down by Happy Creek. The morning was perfect. Maybe it is time to get our plein air painting group back together to meet on a regular basis.

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Marlys Painted Me!

Posted in daily painter, Plein Air, Serendipity, tagged Artist painting, Plein Air on September 20, 2017| Leave a Comment »

20170918_165302 While painting at Sanders’ Ranch on Monday I was joined by Marlys Bernal. Marlys is one of the ladies that has horses at the ranch and she comes out to The Studio every few months to paint Pet Portraits. She is a very good painter and has done some beautiful work with me but her favorite medium is watercolor. I was happy that she came out to keep me company painting this week. I was so involved in what I was painting that I didn’t pay attention to what she was working on until the end of our session. Imagine my surprise when she showed me her work….ME! She painted me painting! And I LOVE it!!! I was thrilled that she gave the little watercolor sketch to me. I’ll be hanging it with my collection of other “painters at work”. (I have about a half dozen with this subject matter and I love them.) Thanks so much Marlys. I can’t wait to frame it up and get it on the wall. Let’s get together soon and do this again.

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Finished the Plein Air Sunflowers

Posted in Landscape, Plein Air, tagged Paint Out, Plein Air, sunflowers on September 8, 2017| Leave a Comment »

I had a few minutes to finish the Plein Air Sunflower paintings from Monday’s Paint Out at Burnside Sunflower Farms. (Read about that here.) Today may be another Paint Out day. We are planning to paint at Barrel Oak Winery. Let’s hope we can make it. Why not come paint with us?!

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Plein Air at Sunflower Farm

Posted in daily painter, Landscape, Plein Air, tagged Burnside Farm, Plein Air, sunflowers on September 5, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I got to paint at Burnside Sunflower Farm in Haymarket. What a treat to get to paint in plein air.

The place was really busy since it was a holiday but it was still lots of fun. Here are some scenes from the farm along with the paintings I started. They are about 85% done and I’ll finish them in the studio this week.

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“Where the Wild Things Are”

Posted in daily painter, Landscape, Plein Air, tagged Farm scene, Oxbow on September 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »

oxbow-farm-field I am excited to be going to a fundraiser this weekend for the Blue Ridge Wildlife Center. (Check out there good work here.) And I was even more thrilled to be invited to donate a “Plein Air Private Session” as an auction item.

The event is going to be held at Oxbow Farm where I have painted in Plein Air many times thanks to the kind owner. This painting is one I did several years ago while out for a day of painting sunflowers. After painting the sunflowers (See it here) I turned around and this was the view. I loved it too. Actually there are no bad views there. It’s beautiful.

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Plein Air at The Farm

Posted in Art Class, Landscape, Plein Air, tagged barn, Plein Air on June 16, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Lauren with 1st Plein Air Painting Our Art Retreat to Whippoorwill Farm has ended and was a great success. Ten of us went to practice our plein air skills. Some were painting outdoors for the first time…and they did great. Take a look at Lauren with her first plein air painting. She did a fabulous job. She completed about 90 percent of it on location and then finished it up at class last night. Beautiful work Lauren. So glad you were able to go and experience plein air painting.

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Retreat at Whippoorwhil Farm

Posted in Plein Air, Serendipity, Workshop/Retreat, tagged Art workshop on June 14, 2016| 2 Comments »

We have a group of ten ladies at Whippoorwhil Farm on a creative retreat. It’s lovely here with loads of inspiration. We’ll share more in the next few days.