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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Last week, Our new lead pastor at Park Street Brethren Church gave us a short devotional. It was based on 1 Samuel 7:12 Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far has the LORD helped us.” He was encouraging us to identify our own [...]
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This was a plein air study painted last Saturday. It was a beautiful Saturday morning but a little chilly and the wind was blowing pretty steadily. I don’t have an umbrella to use yet so I didn’t have to worry about that blowing away, but i did wind up with full sun on my canvas [...]
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12″ x 9″ oil on linen, plein air, Corolla Sunrise Doug Cooper and I are on a Red Red retreat doing some planning. Our friend Tim has a beach house in Corolla, NC that he lets us borrow as a way to get away from it all to do this planning. Thanks Tim, this is [...]
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“early fall” oil – 9 x 12 © Robin Roberts 2008 This is a plein air painting i did a couple weeks ago. I am just now getting it posted. It is the first oil i have tried for awhile. What caught me about this was the backlight on this very yellow tree. the other [...]
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“Stoney Point” watercolor – 12 x 16 © Robin Roberts 2008 This was painted as a part of the OPAS plein air painting competition. I ended up doing a couple other paintings over the weekend too. I will get those uploaded later. The weather was outstanding. This barn was fun to paint. I am still [...]
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larger view This is a straight watercolor done in plein air. I am part of a group that gets together to do this about once a month. I wish I had time to be more active with the group. It is the Ohio Plein Air Society (OPAS.) Once again, I am trying to loosen up from [...]
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view larger This is a little old by now but a great start to this art blog. This is a test of sorts. This is a quick study done using 3 primary colors. I am testing some new watercolor paints by Graham & Co. It is made using honey as a binder. There is [...]
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