I've been so busy, I haven't had a chance to photograph my paintings from the Cedarburg Plein Air last week! I pulled out of the Plein Air early and spent the last week visiting my sister and her family in northern Wisconsin. I had already turned in my 1st Quick-Paint entry, so I don't have a photo of that one, but here are all the other paintings. Because I only stayed in the Plein Air for the first week, I wasn't able to enter any of these in competition and sale the following week. So these are all available for sale now!

Cedar River Falls, 8x10 oil (SOLD)



Cedarburg Forge, 8x10 oil (SOLD)
 

Port Washington Beach, 8x10 oil

Cedarburg Bridge, 8x10 oil

Foggy Morning, 8x10 oil

Port Washington Sunrise, 8x10 oil

Yellow Water Lilies, 5x7 oil (this was my second painting in the Quick-Paint competition)
 

All of the eight paintings I painted during the Cedarburg Plein Air are on Fredrix canvas panels and painted with Grumabacher Pre-Tested Artist Oils -- my preferred art supplies for painting en plein air!

New Plein Air Paintings!

I had a blast, painting in the plein air competition at the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove this past weekend! About 50 artists participated in the three day event, and the paintings will be displayed this Friday in the Audubon barn. It was my first plein air event of the year, and I'm not quite up to full speed yet after my emergency heart surgery last month, so I only painted one painting each day. 

Perkiomen River, 8x10 oil, $195.

I painted this view of the Perkiomen River from the back porch of the Audubon Museum. The trees were just starting to bloom that day - they were still bare in the morning, and by the afternoon a green halo had appeared around all the trees.

Bat House, 8x10 oil (SOLD).

 This large bat habitat stands behind the Audubon barn, and from a distance looks like a tree house. It  housed hundreds of bats, but unfortunately it's now empty due to the White Nose Syndrome epidemic.

Audubon Pines, 8x10 oil, $195.

On the second day of the plein air, the hardwoods were still bare. I found a willing subject in this pair of pine trees, across from the front door of the Audubon Museum. Bird feeders and houses were hanging everywhere on this property, and the trees were full of wildlife. It is a wonderful place to go and paint! This site is the former home of John James Audubon, and is next to Valley Forge Nat'l Park.

Recent Plein Air

I finished up three paintings using the new oil paints from Grumbacher last week during two great plein air painting trips!

Chatting with fellow plein air painter Radhika Srinivas at the Kirkwood Preserve.

On Wednesday I went to the Allentown Rose Garden to paint en plein air with fellow artist Nancy Reidell.

Artists have to make their own shade on sunny days!

The 1st of my 3 oil painting during the Philadelphia Watercolor Society plein air event.