'Still Life on a Rainy Day'I am back from a wonderful Plein Air painting workshop in the mountains of North Carolina. To sum it up it was a great experience. I learned so much from our intructor Marsha Savage as well as the other artists. We painted, ate good food, talked art, drank some wine, saw some beautiful sites, painted some more. ...I think my arm is sore from so much painting! Thanks goes to our hostess Lynda and her family for sharing her wonderful lakefront cabin. Thanks also to Jayne for the ride and the wonderful company. We have both decided to do as one of the other artists, Carly Clements suggested....and that is to do a painting a day for the next 100 days. We will keep them in a notebook so we can see our progress. I plan to share my efforts on this blog so stay tuned!
The painting I have posted today is a still like we set up one afternoon. It was one of those days that rained steadily ALL day! Jayne, Ginny and I decided to set up under the porch and we had an all day painting marathon. We painted from 8 in the morning until 6. At one point the rain was washing onto the floor and we were painting in standing water...we put on life vests for a photo op...I need to get a copy of that one! It actually was a lot of fun since we tried to do things we normally don't paint...including Flowers in a still life. I had a lot of fun with this one. We did an alcohol wash underpainting and we were tempted to leave them alone as they looked like watercolors. I will post more pictures as soon as I get caught up!
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