Cuba, Plein Air

Painting in Old Havana, Cuba

A couple of years ago I had the pleasure of visiting 

Cuba on an historic painting trip with 100 other painters.

My favorite place to paint by far was Old Havana.

 I haven't even scratched the surface of everything I saw there

that I want to paint.

Check out my solo show on Cuba below!\

Cuba, Faded Beauty

Solo Show at South Street Art Gallery, Easton. MD

May 1, 2018- May 27th, 2018

PREVIEW THE SHOW HERE

This is one of my plein air paintings done on location.

 Cuban Quartet

9x12

available

When you get this I'll be participating in Paint The Town,

held in Marble Falls, TX.

If you're in the area come join the fun.

Check out my painting location by sending me an email!

Schedule of events here:

https://www.hlcarts.com/event/218-paint-the-town/

Thanks for following along.

We're gonna have a good time:)))

PACE18 with Bruce Bingham

Jeanne with faculty hat, Mary and Moi

This is from the day we went to

El Rancho de las Golondrinsa.

Windy is an understatement.

It was a full on dust storm with hats flying and

easels tumbling along like the tumbling tumble weeds.

No kidding.  There were gusts up to 60 mph.

Plus plenty of time to be silly.

Jeanne, Hai Ou and Moi

Winners

All paint and no play makes for a dull day;)

Hate to say goodbye to Sante Fe.  Good times.

PACE18 Demos

Part of the fun of being at PACE18 

is seeing all the great demos.

My favorite this year was Kevin McPherson.

This is his beginning, middle and end.

He painted this really complex scene from a water color

he had done in Italy.

I really related to the way he mixes his color.  He uses the

same value for as long as he needs to and bends the

different colors to a warm or cool bias on his palette.

I was relieved that he doesn't make separate piles

of each color and leave them because

frankly I'm just not that tidy and that technique never seems

to work for me.

Of course he made the whole thing look really easy!

Upcoming:

Paint the Town Marble Falls

and

PREVIEW THE SHOW HERE

Cuba, Faded Beauty

Solo Show at South Street Art Gallery, Easton. MD

May 1, 2018- May 27th, 2018

Thanks for following along!

PACE18 with Bruce Bingham

PACE18

Too much fun? No such thing.

Nobody can accuse us of not having enough fun.

left to right:

Shelby Keefe, Brenda Boylan, Nancy Tankersley, Moi, and Jeanne Reavis.

I had so much more fun than last year when I ended up in the La Jolla hospital with a pinched nerve in my back.  What a drag.  This year I came away with tons of inspiration and some

new techniques. YAY!

The first morning we were there we found a spot to paint along a road not far from the hotel.

It was a little windy as you can see by the flags  on the right below

below but nothing like later in the week.

I'll break this up into a few more posts so it won't get too long.

Upcoming:

Paint the Town Marble Falls

and

PREVIEW THE SHOW HERE

Cuba, Faded Beauty

Solo Show at South Street Art Gallery, Easton. MD

May 1, 2018- May 27th, 2018

Thanks for following along!

Cuba, Faded Beauty

 What's inside?

All my paintings are packed and shipped to

South Street Art Gallery, Easton, MD.

for my May show:

Cuba Faded Beauty.

The key to doing a solo show is getting organized

and keeping focus.

I shipped these boxes three different ways to

save on expense.  The smaller ones could go priority mail.

The next size was less expensive to send Fed X.

The the big guy in the back had to go by freight.

Sneak peek at what's inside;

Cuba Style

12 x 16 oil

I'll be sending you more images of the show via my blog so please stay tuned.

Next I'm off to the Plein Air Convention for lots of fun and inspiration!

Don't forget The Painted Garden Show at

Beach Gallery, Va. Beach, Va.

opening this weekend.

Thanks for following along!