Seven Bridges 6x8 acrylic 6/21/19

A very beautiful sunny day. I walked the high and low trail along the river. A lot of beauty. Finally just sat next to Tanya on the high trail and painted a sketch.

6 of us showed up; Tanya, Terry, Jim, Kent, Nila. Gary's at Oshkosh plein air. Lisa's in New York.

Heritage Farm 6x8 acrylic 6/14/19

Starting out with a light rain but by the time we left it was sunny.

10 of us showed up; Nila, Gary, Jim, Lisa, Bea, Sandy, Terry, Tanya, Kent

Felt inspired so tried to do the painting again at home but ran out of time to finish it. I played around using palette knive. I have all these beginnings of paintings hanging on the walls waiting for me to finish or gesso over. Working on a very big job from morning to night that needs to get done but still I take time out to paint on Friday.

Downtown Greendale Village Gazebo 6x8 acrylic 6/7/19

Added cerulean blue and a little alizarin crimson to my palette.

First attempt no good so wiped off and redrew in burnt sienna while watching proportions.






4 of us; Kent, Jim, Sandy

Waterford Village Hall Park 6x8 acrylic 5/31/19

River was really high and water was rushing.
Still using cad yellow, paynes gray, burnt sienna, and titanium white.







5 of us; Kent, Lisa, Nila, and Bea. Terry introduced us to her town but couldn't stay.

Hoyt Park 5/23/19

Quite a few of us showed up, Jim, Mike, Gary, Kent, Sharon, and me.
Now it seems that we have more guys coming to paint.
Beautiful day. Sunny, though it got quite windy by the time we left. No bugs.

Trimborn Farm - 9x12 markers - 5/6/19

A very quick sketch. Spent most of my time getting proportions and angles right. Could only stay a hour. Beautiful weather. A lot of people showed up.

Starbucks pencil sketches 4/26/19 & FineArtViews Light Box

Super inspired by Marc Taro Holmes book "The Urban Sketcher" I'm being kind to myself. If all I can do right now is sketch then that's fine.

Hope to finish up one very large project before the end of May before starting on the next one.

Once the dust settles, I would like to make a light box to photo pictures and sketches.
https://fineartviews.com/blog/144539/a-lightbox-and-accessory-recommendations-for-photographing-small-paintings
She cut windows on 3 sides with a 1.5" border that she covered with tracing paper. Then she lined the inside with paper. I wonder if I could just use white primer. I believe I already have 4 clamp on reflector lights but would need to buy the 4 BR40 bulbs (CRI 94, 4000k)