Wednesday All-Day Paint Out

both SOLD
I feel like I've been let out of jail..spring has sprung and I spent the whole day painting along the dirt roads of Susquehanna County. These are my two paintings. Mary Ann Williams & Joanne Benson were great painting company. We were all in high spirits. Every day should be this productive and fun!

Spring Green and Another Willow Tree are each about 10" x 10" square.

Southern Arizona

My daughter and I have just returned form a rather relaxing and thoroughly delightful week in the sun; birding, sketching, oohing and ahhhing over wildflowers, wandering under the blue skies and sun.

Saw the Tucson Plein Air Painters annual members show at The Desert Museum. Absolutely top notch paintings...some real prizewinners...with surprisingly scant sales. Not sure if that is a reflection on the economy or the fact that the Desert Museum is not really a sales venue...it is a wonderful education facility; zoology, ecology and horticulture. It seems to draw me in on each trip to Tucson...I can't resist seeing cougars, rattlers and that adorable little elf owl close-up. The highlight this time was the "Raptor Free Flight" in which a trained-to-return Harris Hawk family flew literally inches over our heads to land on their handlers' gloved hands...and then returned to their soaring. That was exciting, enlightening and oh-so beautiful.

This is a page from my sketchbook done in the garden at Indian Hill B&B...a record of a meditative hour or so, pen and inking for the pure pleasure of it.