Reworked Painting

It's not officially winter yet but it feels like it. And in the winter I often take some of my summer plein air pieces and paint over them.  Here's a painting from the Belleville Park lake that I posted previously in July and the reworked painting I just finished. In looking at my plein air effort I decided I wanted to get rid of the water reflection, make the clouds into a better arrangement, and to get some depth into the painting. The latter is what made most of the difference in the re-worked painting that I think came out well.

I'm going to try to keep posting during the winter and hope others will too.

Tom

Black Earth Creek

This painting was done near Salmo Pond on 10-17-19.  This is one of 30 watercolors that will be sold as a CSA.  Join the CSA distribution party on November 10th at 3:00 at my home 1008 Emerald St., Madison.  More information can be found at www.emeraldstudio.com

A Farm Near Salmo Pond

It you go to the berm on the highway side of Salmo pond and peer between the trees, there is this farm. Watercolor 9 x 12. Dave W

Salmo Pond

We had the sun come out at Salmo Pond last week and the trees turned mostly yellow instead of green.  My painting exaggerates this a bit, but, of course, that's part of the fun.  I'm hoping the wind and rain doesn't make the leaves drop before we can get out to paint some fall scenes this week.

Tom

 

Hauge Historic District Park (be sure to check out Tom's previous post, too)

Hauge Historic District Park, The Old Church; September 26, 2019; oil on board; 6x12"

If you have not had the pleasure of seeing this park do yourself a favor and go there this fall. It's got beautiful views of Blue Mound and the southern Wisconsin countryside we all know and love. Thursday evening was lovely. I finished this one about 6:30pm - so about 25 minutes before sunset.

Hauge Historic District Park

Had a nice evening at Hauge Park.  I painted a view sort of looking towards the sun but before the sun got too low in the sky.  Various long views at this park.  I will definitely come back when the trees turn colors.

Tom

McCarthy Park Cancellation

Upon showing up at last week's scheduled outing at McCarthy Park some of us discovered a huge cross country track event in progress and so we couldn't paint there. This was a source of aggravation to me but then Nan Zimdars send me an email describing how, despite driving to the park and being unable to paint, that she enjoyed the drive in the countryside.  And on the following day because she had all her painting gear already packed and handy, she decided to do a quick painting of the southwest bike trail near her home.  Turned out quite nice and so I thought I'd share it.  Seems like our cancellation wasn't a total loss.

Mariner's Cove

We were surprised to find the lakefront area at Mariner's Cove all torn up and under construction.  Not too inspiring and for a while I didn't think I would find a scene to paint.  But I finally did find this boat that had nice shadows and after a rough onsite painting (drawing boats is hard!) I finished it at home.

Tom

August 29th - Holy Wisdom Monastery

Last night I did an ink and watercolor sketch at the monastery.  I had tried the Mariner's Cove site but could not find parking close enough to the venue so went on down to the monastery.  The prairies there are beautiful right now and the fragrance is amazing.  It was a beautiful evening.

Creek Bed Farm

I had a wonderful time painting at the Creek Bed Farm -- a sunny, but breezy day and... no bugs!  The view from the hill was nice, and I am happy I had the right format panel for it. Wish I could also paint the sunflowers, but did not have more time. Maybe, next year. :-)

Morning on the farm. Oil, linen panel, 11"x18".

DCPAP Annual Pot Luck August 15th

What a great morning for painting at Cherokee Park followed by a great lunch!  Many thanks to Joan Siebers, her husband and Maggie (adorable puppy) for hosting the group this year in their lovely home with a gorgeous view of the Yahara River.  It is such a beautiful part of Madison but feels far away from the city.  Every time I go there I feel like I've taken a mini-vacation to some exotic place.  Here's a few photos from the morning and our plein air work.  (So great see everyone and forgive me if I messed up on any names!  Just let me know and I will correct them.)

Cindy & Tom 

Cindy with oil painting gear

Newest member Jane Barnard - Welcome and so glad you found DCPAP

Pam, Ann & Doug....

....and Marla!

Pam seated under paintings by Joan Siebers,  Tracy Wiklund and Jan Norsetter

Rick, Cindy, Jane, Anne Marie & Tom

Some watercolors from the morning and an oil of sunflowers from our last outing

An oil from this morning on the banks of the Yahara River

3 more oils from this morning

creek bed Farmancy

Watercolor. Only did a tiny bit of clean up at home. 9  x 12

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Creek Bed Farm - Sunflowers!

We had perfect weather, a great sunflower field, and no big crowd at the Creek Bed Farm outing yesterday.  There were other painting scenes besides the sunflowers but I decided to try my hand at a sunflower close up.  It's still a work in progress but I thought I'd share a few photos from the day, starting, of course, with sunflowers!

Belleville Park

Had some nice paintable clouds at Belleville last week (they didn't move away too fast). I showed this painting to my wife and she said: "good, so far".  "So far?", I replied, "it's finished". "No, it isn't" she insisted. She thinks all the green trees and grass need more definition. I usually listen to my wife.  ;-) but, I dunno.

Annual Pot Luck August 15th - Painting at Cherokee Park 8am

We will meet to paint at Cherokee Park in Madison (not Cherokee Marsh) https://www.cityofmadison.com/parks/find-a-park/park.cfm?id=1185  This year Joan Sieber's is hosting us at her home near the park.  More details will be posted closer to the date.  Many thanks to Joan for hosting us this year and to Marla Brenner for hosting us in years past.  This is always a really fun and well attended event so we hope to see lots of painters there!  

Next Plein Air Painting dates: July 24 and August 8

We will paint on July 24th @ Belleville Community Park @ 4:30pm and August 8th @ Creek Bed Farm @8am.  See Events Calendar for details.

One More Indian Lake Painting

Here's Marla's painting from the last outing. A rather peaceful scene.

Indian Lake Sunset - June 11th

About 8:30 pm

Pam attempting a quick sunset

Nearly finished

My quick watercolor sunset

Around 6pm

Indian Lake County Park outing

It is a great location, with some nice views from the shelter itself. So convenient and lots of options to paint !