In the Fall, Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters [NFPAP] met at the Great Lakes Garden. It was planned for dramatic landscape color, so I paint there a few times a year. This day was chilly, and turned into rain as we ate lunch-outdoors, on the park benches. I finished the painting in the rain with aprons & an old Maid of the Mist raincoat over the easel to protect the painting.Then I misplaced it. A few weeks ago, after it had dried, I took several paintings downstairs to be lightly varnished & left them there. Since I usually varnish outdoors, I forgot about this batch of paintings. I wondered where one of them was every time I saw its empty blue frame, but they were all small & I assumed it was under or behind something else in the studio. Well, out of sight, out of mind-I just found four paintings & they are all very dry.
This is still not varnished-apparently I realized it was too soon & set it aside!
Skyline from Great Lakes Garden, oil 10x14 2009
Wow, I love the near / far, brighter foreground and DISTANT NF tower. What looks like coleus in this small rendition just jumps out almost like a photograph while the painting takes over as you look further into the picture.
ReplyDeleteIt was a misty day, glad you can see the weather in this small image-it's called aerial perspective
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