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"Purple Passion",  8"x 10", Oil, on Canvas Going once, going twice............SOLD.    Headed to California.   Thanks so much Noni.   Hope you enjoy it.   
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Leisa Rowley Diana Schneider Myself Chery Coen These are a few of my painting friends that were enjoying the perfect day painting at the Sequiota Park in Springfield, MO last Thursday.   We try to get together at least once a week, somewhere in the area, for plein air painting, which means painting on location or from life.    It's not as easy as you think, but most of the time it's just great to be outside enjoying nature.   Below is the painting I did at the park, and finished up in the studio yesterday.     I was crazy about the purple and the great shapes of the canopies. "Purple Affair", 8"x 10", Plein air oil
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"Ready for Action", 8"x 10", Oil We've been blessed with wonderful, cool weather for July, so Cheryl Coen and I went out painting last Thursday.   We decided to stay fairly close to home and started the day painting at the marina at Orlean's Trail, on Lake Stockton.     Then after lunch at the Emporium,  we headed North out of Stockton to an old mill site, Caplinger Mills, on the Sac River, which runs down from the Stockton Lake Dam.    The Sac River is the main feed into the lake.    It didn't take but a few months for it to fill the new Lake Stockton in 1970.    There's an old building remaining at the East end of the Historic "Graffitti", 8"x 10", Oil  bridge at Caplinger.   I'm curious to know what the building was used for.    I believe the main mill was on the opposite side of the river, but was destroyed many years ago in a fire.    I liked the shadows falling on the side of the building and was intrigued