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Paint Around

River City Gallery holds a Downtown Paint Around every July. The rule is Plein Air within 1 mile of the gallery. I chose a house of friends on Cass and 10th. It was a gray day, but pleasant. I am aiming for a free-ish expression, but trying to depict the architecture. There are so many… Continue reading
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Some Prairie Pollenators

Here are some friends we my et at Perrot State Park while camping. We also saw several species of dragonflies who were too busy to pose. Continue reading
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Camping with sketchbook

We are at Perrot State Park camping for a few days. In the morning we headed to a shady bench for my watercolor and Jer’s stitching kit. Mount Trempeleau is short for the name given by French explorers, ” The Mountain with its foot in the water.”. Before the French and since it is a… Continue reading
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Young vine

Updated. I started this Plein Air at Elmaro, but tossed it aside. I took it home and restarted it with a photo reference. Vines have lots of details to get lost in, for example leaf veins and vine tendrils. The cloud probably looks like Mt. Rainier from my home state. Acrylic paint on a gessoed… Continue reading
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Greenhouse

We live in the city, have been reducing lawn and adding native plants, currants, and columnar apples. Now we have a small green house for seed starting and extending the season for potted plants. Jerry found the plan on the internet. Creation care means for us planting for birds and pollinators, avoiding herbicides and insecticides,… Continue reading
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Trempeleau and Elmaro

It was a successful set of events. The Plein Air events at Trempeleau National Wildlife refuge had 20 participating artists.We has some rain, but we worked around that. We also had 14 artists showing at Elmaro’s Crush Pad Gallery. We will be back at the gallery next June Finally we had artists each Sunday in… Continue reading
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Elmaro #3 with Friends

Hazy day fun I was joined on father’s day by a crowd, partner, daughters, granddaughters, friends… Continue reading
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Elmaro Plein Air #2

I was trying Golden Open acrylic slow drying paint. In sunny and windy conditions it dried fairly fast on the pallet, but slower on the board I used. Here is my unfinished product. I’ll work in it at home to later the multiple green tones. When is Plein Air not? This is the piece after… Continue reading
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Plein Air at Trempeleau

We had a great day with 21 artists participating in the event. The rain showed up, so I finished early. Several of us were on the observation area. Here is a comparison of styles with Faye Schoen. I have some work to finalize mine, call it Plein Air Plus. We’ll do it again next year. Continue reading
