Plein air

Every October is the Brookville Paint Out

Brookville is a beautiful little community south east of 

Indianapolis, very close to the Ohio border.

It kind of sits in a little valley with mountains all around

and rivers that run through it.

This is the view as seen from the east.

Friday evening is painting downtown on Main Street.

This is the view I chose to try a little painting.

I'm workin' it....

Trying hard.....

Busy street......

I think this is fun?????

Street scenes are very hard.

And here is my friend Ron.....

Now he knows what he's doing.

Saturday morning....

A fresh start.

Lets go exploring and take some pictures.

The river is quite low at the canoe place.

Look at all these flat rocks.

I'm sure one of them belongs in our flower bed?

This is one of my favorite places to paint.

Trees, water, sun.... what more could I want?

Maybe a fisherman.....

or maybe some kayaks? Ducks?

Guess I better settle down and get to work.

Oooops. More distractions.

Our friend has a new paint setup.

Yes, we all agree, it's really cool.

This year we were staying several miles away in Ohio.

Which meant a drive back and forth each day.

This looks like a nice place and it's right in town.

The original house was built in 1835. 

In 1898 noted Indiana artists, J. Ottis Adams and T.C. Steele 

selected this site to set up their home and studios, 

where the Hoosier Group painted for several years.

Yipee. They have a room for us next year.

The next day.........

This will just have to wait until another day

or this post will be way too long.

Bye for now.....