Went late yesterday morning into the early afternoon to the Kayak Launch at Windmill Point in Lancaster County, VA to paint. There are gorgeous views of the swamp as you drive down to this site, but all the property is privately owned and they are not happy to have visitors stopping to paint along the… Continue reading Windmill Kayak Launch
Spring may finally have arrived in the Northern Neck. Went out this morning on the deck with a cup of coffee and a little 5X7″ pastel board and my traveling pastel kit. When I started the painting, there was a wonderful pinkish glow on the horizon and the sun was just tipping across a maple… Continue reading Spring Morning
My husband calls them “Snow Birds”. This little fellow and his friends frequent our feeders especially when there is snow on the ground. I had fun working on the reflected light both from him in to the snow and from the snow onto him. In other news, I got a phone call today from the… Continue reading Junko
I got back on that horse called Plein Air Painting after a very rough start on earlier this week. To spare my sore foot (who knows what I actually did to it), I loaded everything into the golf cart and took off down the lane. At the crossing where two of my neighbors’ driveways enter… Continue reading Spring on the Lane
Went out for the first time this season, and having not painted in plein air since last Fall (and that in pastels) and ended up with a mud bath. Not that I stepped in mud, but I did just about everything wrong that I could do wrong and my painting turned to mud. Ugh! I’m… Continue reading Terribly out of Practise
New one completed today. I did learn from this little painting. I started it yesterday and got this far and stopped: Not a bad place to stop for lunch or a couple hour pause, but I normally get back to a painting before the first coat has completely oxidized. I was surprised it was a… Continue reading Goldfinch
RAL Art Center has a show coming up focused on the lives and environment of the Watermen. I literally started this painting last year based on a photo I took of a couple of crabbers putting out pots on Betts Mill Creek. Unless you have been boating or live on one of these creeks, you… Continue reading Putting Out the Pots
