Plein Air

  • Busy Bee

    May Day and the bees are buzzing around me. It’s the first time this year that I’ve sat here on the porch to enjoy the budding garden, observe the busy bees and listen to the birds (and the neighbors mower). It’s peaceful but like the bees, I’m all abuzz. Next Sunday, Mother’s Day, I’ll be

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  • Summer So Far

    Hard to believe its already mid August. Been busy with the new house and the new Painting group, Lower Hudson Valley Plein Air Painters, phew thats a mouth full. LHVPAP for short. There’s a group starting up out of the Garrison Art Center too calling themselves the Hudson Highland Painters, has a nice ring to

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  • Paint Out

    I will be participating in a Plein Air event at Kingsland Park in Nutley, NJ this Saturday.

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  • Plein Air

    Painting outdoors has completely destroyed me.  Seriously, I don’t know if I can sit patiently, hours on end, meticulously rendering nature indoors anymore!  Ha, I know what you’re thinking; Susan you’re a botanical artist, you might go outside and study a specimen, recording it in a notebook or check your color mixes in natural sunlight

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