Lake Wingra Feb. 27th

Yesterday was the first super warm day - 57 F - so I went to Vilas Park to do this charcoal sketch.  It was super windy so I sat in the car.  I only had an hour so I couldn't do justice to the trees on the left which look goofy but they were goofy looking trees.  I used a black ink marker, charcoal and conte crayon.  Working in black and white makes me concentrate on values without having to worry about color.

Lake Wingra near Vilas Park Beach - 10 x 13

Tenney Park Winter Painting

Rick's previous post reminded me of how nice a place Tenney Park is for a possible winter painting of ice skaters in action. I'm posting two photos from when I was out there a couple weeks ago.  The one photo (with the large sky area) if from right next to the shelter building looking west. The shelter offers a nice place to warm up.  I wanted to do a painting with nice sunset colors through the clouds above the ice, with a few skaters on the blue-gray ice below.  It looked promising for a while but then just after I started painting the sky became totally overcast. That effort didn't work out but if the ice doesn't melt I may try it again soon.

Tom

Tenney Park

Tom you got me fired up to go down to Tenney. I haven't painted snow at all since I took up painting again and never outside. Granted 40 degrees plus isn't frigid but I stuck my easel in the snow so it knew how it felt. :)

I only lasted two hours but I did it!

Snow at Last!

Okay, okay, okay ... it's about time we put a snow painting here.  This was a studio effort, not plein air, but at least it's snow.  I'm hoping to get a plein air snow painting this coming week.  I was out at the Tenny Park skating pond last week trying to paint but it didn't work out very well.  I tried to start a painting with a panel toning and wipeouts but because of the cold and clumsy gloves, I had a terrible time controlling the wipeouts (with a rag).  I'll try a different approach next week.

Tom

Token Creek

I spent two sunsets here and just couldn't do it justice. It's still half plein air but not the good half, lol. 16x20 oil on canvas.