"Madison, day 1", 11"x 14", Oil, Painted from life. This was our lovely model, Madison, on the first day she sat for us at the Adam Clague workshop in Springfield. I touched this up a little today, which shows her pretty face and hair.
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"Madison", 11"x 14", Oil, Painted from life I finished a 3 day figurative workshop yesterday with Adam Clague, from Kansas City, MO. A very talented young man. It was great fun, but extremely exhausting to concentrate that intensely all day. I'm not used to it. This pretty young girl, is Madison. A first time model, she did great. It's not as easy as you think to sit perfectly still for 20 minutes straight. I don't think I could handle it. We did a study from a model each day. With Adam's help, this was the best of my three. I'll do a little clean up on this, and I think I will leave the background basically the same. I may mute down the green cloth a little more. Thanks to Adam and his wife Andrea, the Visual Art Alliance of Springfield, MO and Alicia Farris, Paula Moore and Desiree Young
"Boone Barn", 8"x 10", Oil This is what I have so far on this plein air (on location) painting that I started last Thursday at the Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site. Nathan was one of the famous, Daniel Boone's, sons. I'll probably do a little more blending in the shadow areas. But I really like the back-light coming through the tree and dappled across the ground.
Nathan Boone Homestead, Ash Grove, MO I met with the Springfield Plein Air group again today. Cheryl Coen hitched a ride with me and we drove over, about 25 miles South of where I live. It's located in the country just a couple miles North of Ash Grove, MO just off of Hwy 160. There's approx. 350 acres, the old home built in the 1800's , and a neat old barn, that was built later like in the 1930's. It's a State park and they do a nice job keeping it up, and volunteers keep a nice garden growing next to the house. There's also a Boone family grave yard with headstones. After we painted some of us girls met at the Copper Grill in Ash Grove and had some good conversation and lunch. Afterwards Cheryl and I traveled West and South to Carthage to Cherry's Custom Framing and Art Gallery. It's a great gallery that represents many wonderful artists. We spent an hour and a half just drooling over the art. Cheryl and I have high
I was happy to hear the rain on the roof this morning. We really need it, as the yard is crispy brown. Then it turned pretty hot, so I didn't venture out to the plein air paint out today. Instead I decided to work in my "Summer Splash of Color", 8"x 10", Oil studio on a study I started a few weeks ago at the Nathaniel Green Botanical Garden. There are many folks, employees and volunteers that keep the garden looking beautiful. Many thanks to them for letting me enjoy all their hard work.