I went painting with the Ohio Plein Air Society last Saturday. It was a little crisp but the sun came out and there was some beautiful light. I fought through some thorn bushes to get this angle across the pond back into the barn and I think it was worth it. Still experimenting with watercolor [...]
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This was my entry into the Ohio Plein Air Society competition last Sunday. I tried something new by trying to focus most of the attention on the foreground pumpkins. It was an interesting morning as the sun was out most of the time but then I got rained on about half way through as well. [...]
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I did this painting last Saturday as part of the White’s Mill challenge sponsored by the Ohio Plein Air Society and Russell Chamberlain, of Athens Real Estate Company. Thanks to he and Jeff Risner for setting this up. It wound up being a nice day although a little overcast at times. There was judging at [...]
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I was able to get out for a few hours to do this plein air painting of a farm’s grain silo’s yesterday afternoon while it was so nice. I drove around a bit until this caught my eye. Finished in time to get home and get cleaned up for Friday night football. You could smell [...]
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Yesterday I took a day off work to take my son Sam and a couple of his friends to a LEJGA Golf Tournament at Thunderbird Golf Coarse in Huron, Ohio. I dropped the boys off and then I went and painted while they got started. I went into town and hit one of the marina’s [...]
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Painted as a part of the Creative Chateau‘s paint Ashland. I wasn’t able to paint with them because I went to church and went to my son Sam’s choir concert, “May Fiesta.” However, I was able to capture an evening scene looking toward the bridge. There was some great light on the bridge that evening. [...]
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Went out a few evenings ago and completed this painting. The trees caught my attention while driving down the road and then the little out building became the focus with its aqua colored roof. I still need work on the way I handle trees, that’s for sure. But each time out is another practice session [...]
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This past Sunday was an OPAS paintout event in Hartville, Ohio. It was very well organized with maps and painting locations already mapped out and permissions already granted. I painted at the Moore farm which is a tree farm and also a place to go and cut flowers. What I saw was mostly day lilies, [...]
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These were the pieces that I painted during this past weekends paintout at Lakeside, on lake Erie. It was a great weekend and I even sold a couple pieces and met some new friends. Lakeside Hollyhocks: This was the first painting that I did for the weekend on Friday morning. Mostly this was painted under [...]
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I am happy to say that I had two paintings accepted into the Crampton Art Show up at Lakeside where I am also participating in a 3-day paintout with OPAS. The two paintings are posted below and have been posted here before. My painting called Evening Storm Front, which was done plein air at Cooper [...]
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