Yahara Place Park - July 22nd

This was a really great place to paint and a perfect summer evening.  My apologies to the painters I missed getting a photo of; I hadn't realized there was so many of us there but I am glad we had such a good turnout.  Hope to see lots of you next time, too.  Pat

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Joan and her painting and gear

Tom, Bernie and the hydrangeas

Charles and Pat

Welcome Judy!  First time out with DCPAP.  Sorry I got you with eyes closed - I'll do better next time!!

Tom by the shore

Lake Monona  oil painting 8 x 16 ; I'm new to painting with a knife but it is fun and no brushes to clean

Lake Wingra just after sunset last week - pastel on Pastelmat paper

Yahara Place Park

Watercolor. looking towards Olin park at Yahara River outlet

Yahara Place Park

Really nice evening for painting yesterday.  I'm posting my painting of a Lake Monona shore view.  Later in the evening the light turned quite nice and with the large number of sailboats on the water it looked like something that really needed painting.

Which got me thinking of how to make simple lake views interesting.  Sometimes the scene is just a horizontal strip of land with sky and water.  I guess the key is to create designs in the sky and/or water.  Just for fun I'm also posting a few other lake/water paintings that show how this might be done.  Two of these are by Marc Hansen, one of my favorite painters.  The other is by Fiona Pocock.

Yahara Place park outing

The sky was changing into beautiful pink later in the evening. Had to stop myself changing the colors in the painting after a certain point. Thanks Tom for organizing it! 

Resurrection Cemetery

A few of us painted at the Resurrection Cemetery yesterday.  Between the sky clearing early on, and the heat and humidity coming in later, I got a good start, and finished it up today.  My first time painting in a cemetery.  There are some interesting views.

Tom Gilbert