Lots of Plein Air

Beautiful weather and painting, what could be better.   Roan Mountain was not to be missed this time of year.  I was lucky enough to meet two members of the North Carolina Plein Air Painters who were there as well.   Scott Boyle, the founder, was there as well as Craig Franz.  I like painting with other painters because one is less of a novelty to the public.  The site of the painting is the old Cloudlands Hotel, only part of a foundation remaining.

Stormy Cloudlands
Oil
5" x 7"

Another plein air event at Duck Dance Farm was to gather material for the Blue Ridge Fine Arts Guild exhibit "Renaissance of the Family Farm".    Since I struggled with the values of the Roan painting a monochromatic study was in order for me.  Kat Turczyn, who organized the event, was kind enough to send me this snapshots.

It's studio time now, the exhibit opens in a month.

A Very Long Hiatus

Never thought in March that so much time would elapse before the next posting.  Two trips to my old home town, Princeton, with added excursions to Philadelphia and the Jersey shore which I had not seen since Hurricane Sandy.  The devastation was much more considerable than what I witnessed in Florida as noted in my previous post.

I'm back in the Blue Ridge, plein air painting which I abandoned a year ago due to medical problems.  Today we were at the Green Toe Ground, an organic farm which started at a CSA and now sells at farmers' markets and supplies restaurants.

Lettuce Fields

Oil  5" x  7"

                                The fields have the bright glowing green of early summer.   

     The Green Toe Ground gets its unusual name from the Toe River which flows next to this field.

                                It's hatchery stocked with trout and its purity is taken seriously.

 .Plein air painting resumes on Saturday at the Farmer's Market