Salmo Pond

We had to wait out a short, light rain, but then had a nice evening for painting. A variety of sun, clouds, rainbow, and even a full moon on the drive home. I chose to paint a darkened sky with just a bit of sunlight coming through. This painting might need some fixing but this is my plein air result. Tom

Salmo Pond - Plein Air Painting - Wednesday Sept. 30th 3:30 - Sunset

We will meet for painting here on Wednesday.  (See Events Calendar for details).  Below is Darya's painting from last year.  Gorgeous!  We should have some fall color to paint this time.  Hope to see you there,  Pat

Oil on panel, 12"x16"

 

 

 

 

 

Pheasant Branch Conservancy, Tuesday, September 15th

 This is an 8x16" panel. I repainted the sky five times. Its dull, pale, grey blue wasn't doing anything for the painting so I kept scraping it off and trying different things. This sky represents the color of the setting sun, which was in the sky opposite to this view. It was a perfect evening for plein air. The lone figure in this landscape is Tom, coming back to his car from the hillside he was painting on. I snapped a quick reference photo at the end of the evening and noticed him carrying his gear. Not many people remained at the park after the sunset. The lighting was odd because of the wildfires 2000 miles away. The sun was unobscured by clouds but there were hardly any shadows. I really boosted the color in this one.

Pheasant Branch Creek

Had a good group of painters at Pheasant Branch yesterday, and some of us maintained social distancing so well we didn't even see each other ;-) There was sort of an orange haze that I tried to capture in this painting. Is this haze due to wild fires out west?

Tom

Holy Wisdom Monastery - August 2020

 With travel being pretty much out of the question this summer I spent 3 weeks off and on painting at the monastery.  The prairie was in full bloom and beautiful. So many butterflies!!  I got a room during the days with meals cooked by their excellent chef and cool off in the a/c and shower after being in the heat all day.  It also got me away from my street which was under constant and noisy construction all summer.  There's an old abandoned barn on the property I've always wanted to paint.  Mostly I worked in pastel but I did a few tiny gouache paintings, too. 

Pastel on Pastelmat 8 x 12

Gouache 2 1/2 x 3