Arroyo Secco

The little church at Arroyo Secco- painted in the morning with full light - beautiful day!

The view behind the church and the white things are everyone's plein air umbrellas!

Ken Daggett from Taos showing Coni Grant his watercolor plein air method- he was right close to the road and it made me nervous!

Coni and Patrice Walker discussing plein air painting... No, plein air painters don't have matching uniforms- even though it looks like it..

Ed Sirokman- my hero! He fixed my Soltek easel when my car door smacked it and knocked off a part of my easel-- Thanks Ed!

Another painting from Taos Junction

9x12

After painting at Arroyo Seco in the morning, we decided to paint Taos Junction in the afternoon. We were hoping to try to find some place out of the wind that was raging and so we went to the very end of the road at Taos Junction and looked back up the canyon- I set my easel up in an antpile so they were enraged from the very get go. I tried to move it but it didn't seem to help- they were stirred up so I walked back and forth alot while painting this piece- it was interesting.

Arroyo Seco

This was the last day that I would be able to paint in Taos for the paint out and Amy Evans and Deb Robinson suggested that we paint Arroyo Seco so off we went. This was my fovorite town in the paint out- I loved it! The people were friendly and the man that used to be the priest at the Arroyo Seco Church was riding his bike and came by and talked to us. I had been very inspired by Walt Gonske's paintings at the cocktail party the night before, so I was ready to paint. Afterwards we ate at the Taos Cow - wonderful.