Fun day plein air painting at Eudora Welty House & Garden in Jackson, MS

 

Eudora's Rose Garden

15" x 11"

Watercolor 

(I used a little gouache too)

An art friend, Feixue Yang, and I had fun painting plein air at Eudora Welty House & Garden in Jackson this morning. The climbing rose on the arbor is called Dr. W. Van Fleet - a beautiful pale pink rose.

#watercolorpainting #watercolorpleinairpainting #eudoraweltyhouseandgarden #drwvanfleetrose

#pleinairpainting #mississippiart #mississippiartist #mississippipleinairpainters

Leflure Bluff State Park

16" x 20"

Oil on Canvas Panel

Here's my painting from the Earth Day Plein Air event through Pacesetter Gallery and Mississippi Wildlife. I enjoyed painting en plein air with other artists. We, artists, were in our element - open air, sunshine, nice cool weather, and hardly any bugs to contend with. I'm glad my painting won second place. 

Best of Show Feixue Yang

2nd Place Margaret (Maggie) Mayer

3rd Place Lucie Wren Cooper

4th Place Linda Peters

1st place

3rd Place

4th Place

Cissy Baskin, Wendy Hankins, Susan Wellington, Me

My friends who I have known my whole life and our art teacher in junior high.

Read more about this event in the Pacesetter Gallery May newsletter here

and follow Pacesetter Gallery on Instagram here

Recent Paintings

West Beach
Indiana Dunes National Parl
Oil on Canvas Panel
11x14

Central Beach
Indiana Dunes National Park
Oil on Canvas Panel
11x14

Chapel of the Cross
Madison, MS
Oil

Chapel of the Cross
Madison, MS
Oil on Canvas Panel

Plein Air
9x12

 

Beautiful Day to be outside painting

Off The Beaten Path at River's Bend
12" x 9"
Oil on Panel

I started this one with a pink background because I knew it's compliment "green" would be the primary color on top and trying to follow Anne Blair Browns's teachings on "notan" and to get the big shapes in without much drawing and then pull and push to correct values before painting.  .....also....constantly thinking about keeping my paint piles from mixing on the palette so I don't make mud...lol...whew lot to keep up with 😉

My Plein air painting from the Laurel Paint Out

Magnolia Street

Oil on panel

9x12

“There may come to be new places in our lives that are second spiritual homes – closer to us in some ways, perhaps, than our original home. But the home tie is the blood tie. And had it meant nothing to us, any other place thereafter would have meant less, and we could carry no compass inside ourselves to find home ever, anywhere at all. We would not even guess what we had missed. “

-          Eudora Welty

A Recent Anne Blair Brown Painting Workshop

Here's a quick plein air still life study. Working with adding and subtracting (using paper towel) to get values correct with big shapes then painting quickly without really drawing too much. ...so much out of my comfort zone but very valuable information.

AirBNB in Columbia, TN

I also stayed in an Airbnb in Columbia, TN owned by Cindy and Garrett that I can't say enough good stuff about. I loved it! https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/21745293?s=67&shared_item_type=1&virality_entry_point=1&sharer_id=290331776