Plein Air Painting at Wild Acres
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
For 5 years, each July, I attended an art workshop at Wild Acres, North Carolina, about 40 miles from Asheville and 3 miles from Little Switzerland on the Blue Ridge Parkway. I felt like a kid at camp. All I had to do was eat, sleep and paint as the food was prepared for us and when the dinner bell rang, we all assembled in the dining room for a wonderful repast.
On Fridays, each class showed what they had done for the week – the printmakers, the ceramic artists, photographers, studio artists, and plein air artists. I was amazed that consistently, the paintings of the plein air artists had much more color, feeling and life than those of the studio artists.