Day 3 of the Taos Paintout

The Orchard and Taos Mountain
11x14

On day three of the Taos plein air paintout, it was decided to paint an orchard off of Cruz Alta Street.  We met Peg at The Bean coffee shop - cute and homie place with egg cartons decorating the ceiling.  After drinking up their delicious coffee, we headed out to the orchard. We had a few other local artists join us - Ken Daggett and Kemper Coley- and Peg, Dave Coni, Wes and I. The view towards Taos mountain was especially nice and I wanted to hurry up and get the Taos mountain blocked in before the light changed too much- I wasn't very worried about the light in the rest of the scene- so knew I could take my time.  Kemper, Coni and I all painted this view- I thought it was pretty nice. Later that day we drove out to Kevin and Wanda  MacPherson's place to paint Kevin's famous pond from his book "Reflections on a Pond".

Kevin's Pond
12x16

Most of the PAAC members had painted this in the morning and had some upset easels in the wind, I assume from umbrellas tipping them over, so I didn't even try to set up an umbrella, thereby leaving the sun to shine directly on my painting and pallette.  That usually causes the painting to result in being a little too dark but I was pretty happy with the result, although there really are no shadows to speak of since the sun was shining directly on the scene. We pretty much had the run of the place which was nice.  I had painted this exact pond 15 years ago when I was a very rank beginner. Wanda showed us around and was very nice.

PAAC Show at Saks Gallery- great times!

It was a great party woth lots of artists and collectors at the 14th annual PAAC show at Saks Gallery in Cherry Creek, Denver CO.  Here is a picture of Coni Grant and Jeanne Hougen.

A picture of Jeff Legg and Peg Immel-- it was nice to meet Jeff and Peg and I are old friends- she will be traveling with Coni and I to Wyoming plein Air.

Lori Putnam- who traveled all the way from Tennessee and Amy Evans - they both look like they are having a great time...

Mark Coulter and his wife Marcia-- 

                                     

Tricia Bass checking out the artwork.....

                                    

A great crowd and fun show...

PAAC show at Saks Gallery

I will be attending the Saks show next Friday on June 25 for the annnual juried Plein Air Artists Exhibition. The painting above is titled "Sunset On Mt Blanca"- 9x12 and the painting below is "Rain Over Mt Blanca" 9x12.

You probably think I paint Mt Blanca all of the time but I really don't- it's just a coincidence.  I am looking forward to the show- I have never been at Saks before so this should be a fun experience.

Back from the PAAC

I just got back from the Plein Air artists Colorado show at the Abend gallery in Denver- it was a beautiful show- here is a picture of me with my daughter Erin - she lives in Denver.

Her is a picture of me in front of my painting- Winter Survival.

Coni Grant and Peggy Stenmark discussing art at the Abend Gallery