Posts Tagged ‘abstract’
Snow Hill Paint Out – Day 1
The Snow Hill Paint Out is this coming weekend. Officially, it is Friday through Sunday, but unofficially, all week long artists are permitted to go to Snow Hill or the surrounding area and paint. The only requirement is that you register before the cut-off number of artists is reached.
My two friends and I met south of town. They drove together, but I drove separately because I paint larger paintings than they and it takes me longer to finish. Once parked, I joined them and we drove around the area looking for interesting scenery for our landscape paintings. We finally settled on Byrd Park, the local city park along the beautiful Pokomoke River, because it had something for everyone – water for them and trees for me.
After 2 hours or so, Suzanne had 2 paintings, Betty had one, and I had about 2/3 of one. Later, after dinner, I finished mine.
Matlacha, FL
Yesterday I went to Matlacha, FL, to paint. Matlacha is a charming little tourist village on the eastern edge of Pine Island and to get there, one must go through at least some part of Cape Coral and cross the “fishingest bridge in the world.” Now, whether this means that the most fish are caught here, or the most people try to catch them, is unknown. But suddenly, on both sides of this 2-lane road for a 2-3 block span, are little houses of green, pink and yellow with all sorts of paraphernalia in front.
Just prior to passing this area, if one turns left, there is a community park and boat ramp and in the middle of all that is a giant live oak tree! You already know where I headed! There’s nothing quite like painting en plein air on a beautiful day in paradise!
On Being Accepted
A few days ago I went back to Sea Star Gallery where I had a show last February. I had been so happy to be accepted by this gallery because the owner had been so enthusiastic about my abstract paintings. I wanted to ask the owner if she would be willing to have another show this winter as she had mentioned last year.