CTPS Paint In

What great fun we had today. 19 or so of us got together at the Windberg Art Center for a full day of painting together. This was just like a workshop only there wasn't a teacher. The best thing about it was that everyone was so generous with their time and help it was like having 18 teachers, actually 20 teachers because Dalhart and Michael Windberg both helped critique and make suggestions too! What a wonderful day! I pretty much completed two paintings both from photos I took in Colorado in late August and/or early September last year. I'm delighted with both of them. They probably need a little more work but over all a good day's work. Tomorrow we do it all over again. This is a wonderful way for us to get work done, visit with and learn from each other. The great set ups at WAC make it so easy, you just need to bring your paper and pastels. Actually you don't even need to bring that since the Windbergs make some wonderful pastel paper and their on site art supply store sells pastels.

Refreshed from vacation!

Just back from a 2 week vacation with several new paintings to show off. Colorado was beautiful and so was Santa Fe. I took in the American Impressionist Exhibition at the New Mexico Museum of Art and was lucky enough to fall into one of their free artist demos. Lee Rommell was demonstrating oil painting en plein air (actually the demo was outside but she was using a photo for reference so, it wasn't really a plein air demo although it was billed that way). Labor Day weekend in Santa Fe also meant we got to enjoy a huge art fair which covered the entire central square. Talk about perfect timing! Newly inspired from a day and two nights in Santa Fe we traveled on to Glenwood Springs where I pulled out my own plein air kit and completed the four 8x10 paintings you see here. I also did a couple of watercolor post cards which I mailed off and didn't keep copies. If you got one you know what they looked like.