After the Rain

My painting from the previous post....

The San Luis Valley usually looks rather dusty in the spring due to the high winds but the colors were saturated due to the rain from the day before.

This painting threw a few difficulties my way. I was truly hoping that the leaves would have budded out by now. Trying to achieve the look of branches that are thick with pre-buds, yet are still bare was interesting.  The branches were almost a green tinge but barely perceptible to the naked eye. I also wanted a look of light on the trees as well .  

Every painting has it's own challenges- on to the next one!

Plein Air and Airplanes

Plein air painting can get rather exciting if you are being buzzed by an airplane over and over. Peggy Immel, Coni Grant and I went painting along the Rio Grande River while my hubby and Steve Immel were flying around so that Steve could use his photography skills to get some great shots from the plane. Below- a picture of the guys doing a fly by...

Painting at the Ranch.....

The view was a good one for painting.  Although the trees had not budded out yet, the grasses were green and the willows had a nice soft pickish red color in the distance.  The view.....

I will post the results of this attempt tomorrow..........

Solo show at the San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center

I will be working hard today getting food ready for my solo show at the hospital in Alamosa. The show will last from 4:30 to 7:30 pm at the San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center in the Artrium.  We will probably have way too much food but that is better than not enough.

I hired Erin, my daughter, to help so it should be a lot of fun- I am not looking forward to hauling everything to the second floor again- very time consuming...

I will be also hauling up about 13 more paintings for the show to add a little variety for the people who have looked at the same paintings for a couple of months now. Well. I do hope people will be able to attend as it is snowing outside today and that can put a bit of a damper on things...