Ahhhhh....Plein Air: Square #32 and and Orange Tree!

Square #32 6x6 oil (plein air)
$100 unframed

Winter's Orange 8x6 oil (plein air)
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Square 31: Painting in my car, Impossible Beauty and 3 Pheasants!!

                                                            Square 31 6x6 oil (Plein Air)

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So thanks to my Facebook friend Lawrence Chrapliwy who encouraged me to paint in my car and having already bought a wooden box to do just that...today I hopped in my car and drove down one of my favorite country roads not far from my home.

Stunning beauty abounds and I drove about 15 mph snapping photos when 3 pheasants hopped across the road right in front of me!! I lifted my camera to snap and...bam...out of batteries. I never go anywhere with out them so as I am fumbling to find them.... thinking I have surly missed the opportunity...they disappeared into the wooded area just off the roadside. I thought ...oh well...at least I saw them...so I drove ahead and turned around about a mile down the road. But as I came back they had appeared again! I stopped about 10 feet from them ...dropped my window and for the next 20 minutes or so these three beauties posed for me! Then they had had enough and off they went...magical!

So I continued to a small clearing in the snow I had eyed up before. It was a big problem trying to simplify the incredible sights everywhere around me...I got out the box...set up and started to paint. It was 18 degrees out and sunny so I opened my window and turned off the car...silence...me, paint and sparkling snow. I will defiantly be doing this again!

A word about my "box"...it is a old wine box (12"x10"x3 1/2) found at Goodwill for 2 bucks and the lid will accommodate an 8x10. It fits on my lap in the drivers seat as long as the seat is all the way back and when open the lid rests on the steering wheel. My friends at Ace Hardware were kind enough to fit it with a piece of plexi which I clipped a hinged paper clip from so I could remove it easily. I glued 4 small blocks in the corners under the plexi creating a small space which I can fit tubes of paint, brushes, a view finder, a scraper, and some paper towels. I put my turp in my cup holder. No doubt I will be rigging this further now that I know it will work.

Ok so here's the big question for all my plein air friends (some real purists in the bunch) ...If I painted in my car is it still considered plein air? If I had the window down so nothing was impeding my view? And what if I didn't.....what's your opinion?

Squares 28, 29, and 30!

Square #30
6x6 oil $100 unframed
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Square # 28
6x6 oil $100

Square #29
6x6 oil $100

Busy day...:)

Square #27 Hoarfrost

Square #27 Hoarfrost
6x6 oil $100

Squares #23 and #24: Painting snow in the snow! Lesson's...

1. It is possible to dress too warm.
2. Oil paint can become frozen giving it an almost granular texture.
3. Paint fast!
4. Pack light.
5. I have fingerless mittens that I buttoned back and stuffed with hand warmers...toasty fingers.

Square 23 6x6 oil $100 unframed

Square 24 6x6 oil $100 unframed 

5. Be prepared to feel an invigorating, accomplished, joyful feeling!!! I am SO blest!

Square #22 : A Winter Walk through the Dolomites, Italy

6x6 0il
$100 unframed

Squares 20 and 21: A Pair of Pears

6x6 oil (#20)

6x6 oil (#21)

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Happy Holidays to all!!!

So Totally Pumped! These two pieces accepted in Randy Higbee's 6 Squared Show!!!

Soooo...off to Costa Mesa CA for these two little 6x6 inch oil pieces. They will be shown in some amazing company for sure! (http://www.randyhigbeegallery.com/Home.html) Opening night December 4th...show hangs till December 23rd...be there and get squared!!!

Squares #18 and #19

6x6 and oil

Square #17

6x6 oil

Today's Square:#16 The Hunters

6x6 oil

Squares #14 and #15: A landscape and a Daisy

6x6 oil

Squares 12 and 13 (Sunflowers and a Rose)

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6x6 oil

Squares #10 and #11

6x6 oil

Today's Square #9

6x6 oil

Today's Square 6x6 oil

Today's Squares

3 New 6"x6" all oils.

4 Squares

All 6"x6" and done in about 60 minutes each...the 6x6 oil challenge begins!

Productive Day in Plymouth!

After an beautiful early morning drive to the Plymouth Plein Air Competition I arrived about an hour after planned.. I evidently took the long way but I didn't mind it was an incredible autumn morning! Here's my days work!! Quick paint on Saturday!!

 Watertower 12x16 oil

 The Witches House 12x12 oil

Legion's Roses 7x5 oil

Pewaukee Classic Boat Show and Plein Air Competition Day 1

I had a good painting day today... got these two done. It was hot, sticky and windy with some scary storms coming through about 5pm...I got out of there first! Tomorrow the Cris Craft Boats come about 40 of them...I can't wait!

                                   The Other Side of the Tracks 16x12 oil

Pewaukee Island 20x10 oil

Mid Summers Brush, Oconomowoc's Plein Air Competition 2010

"The Old Launch" 20x16 oil

Zion II 20x10 oil

Before the Rain 12x16 oil