Corner House

Ok... it has been awhile. Maybe I’ve been distracted or just not in the flow. Actually I’ve been busy, just not with anything artsy.

I started this piece a few weeks ago. I have lots of details yet to go but it’s a start. It was a friend’s rental turned historic so since I rather am fond of historic buildings, I thought I’d give it a go.

I’ve also been looking back over pictures that were taken several years ago. I’ve been puting them in an app that will be easier to sort through and find particular photos.

This one is a little painting I did today of a special ski slope. It’s called Snowridge and of course it was taken in the summer. My hubby used to ski here when he was in high shcool. Fond memories!
It’s in Turin, New York.

That’s all for now. Enjoy your day!

Freimann Square

The flowers around Freimann Square are really beautiful this time of year. It happened to be a nice morning for a little art. I only did a couple of small pieces. It’s still pretty humid out.

These are in my little 3 1/2 inch square sketch book.

Bye...  k

More Historical Places

Time to pick up and continue drawing my historical places around Allen Co. I’ve been working on them for a couple of years. I like to do on location sketches but some of them are in places with no parking. Today my friend (Barb) encouraged me to find a couple of places for us to try out. One had a huge tree right in front of it so we agreed to come back in the fall when the leaves were gone. Next was  the St Peter’s square which includes several buildings. We picked the church. Probably because it was the hardest. (ha)

Actually the clouds were looking pretty great around it. I need to add those yet.

Lunch at the Oyster Bar. Fish tacos, yum. Then another building... Fairfield Manor. It’s a huge building. This is just the front. It extends back for a good block.

It was a fun day... k

Kekionga Plein Air Event

We had a great weekend for the plein air paint out. Weather was perfect on Thursday. I’ve been wanting to paint the Bass Mansion at St Francis for some time so the time had come. It has been a while since I’ve used my oil paints but I decided to give it a go.

            

I was pleased with it. Rather large for a plein air piece. 16x20.

The next day several of us painted at Lakeside park. I don’t like to haul too mich equipment very far so we parked on the street and painted the flowers that were close by.

 That evening there was a quick draw or better called a quick paint. You have 1 1/2 hours to finish a painting. Then they are judged and prizes are awarded. I decided to just bring my sketch book along and draw and wander around to watch everybody else. My there are some talented artist here.

On Saturday it stormed and rained hard in the morning but cleared off for the afternoon when everyone was to bring their paintings downtown to be judged and put up for sale. It’s all during the Taste Of The Arts festival weekend so there are gobs of people all over the streets around Freimann Square.

Tents and stuff in front of the museum. Need to learn to put people in my drawings. 

I think I’ll start working on that...  k

Ouabache State Park

Sometimes you get up in the morning and have no idea what you might do that day. This was one of those days. We (Barb and I) have visited here before but it has been quite a while. I love to visit the buffalo. When we first arrived the buffalo were no where to be seen so we parked over by the pond to do some skethcing. There was also a family swimimg and picnicing.

This was a quick one because it was looking like rain. The red down the middle is the thread that I use to hand stitch my sketch book.

Before we left the park we decided to check on the buffalo one more time. We saw 2 way back in the distance. Being silly we made some odd sort of noises and what do you know, they began to mosey in our direction. I wanted some close up photos so I waited patiently (🤨) for them.

We also came across some interesting flowers. 

They are called Indian Blankets.

It was a fun day in spite of the rain... k

Fun in the Sun

I found some photos to sketch and put some watercolor on.  It’s what I do when the weather is a bit rainy.

Here’s another one. He got caught napping on the picnic table. I guess when you’re tired, anything works. 💤

That’s it for today...  k

Busy Day

It was a nice cool morning to go plein air painting today. However, due to some electrical workers and construction at our site for today the street parking was closed. I know that construction is necessary but I think we’ve had a great deal of it this summer. Alright, enough crabbing. As it turned out we made the best of it and were able to do some painting, sketching and of course talking. I love this group of gals. We really enjoy being outdoors and doing what we love to do.

I’m not sure whether I will put color on this or not. I guess “not” for now.

After lunch “Taqueria El Ranchito” (one of my favorites) we drove up to Auburn to drop off some art supplies to a friend. As we drove through town my buddy (Barb) said she liked the tower on the building on the corner. I guess it used to be the Auburn City Hall and now it has a “police” sign in one of the windows. Whatever, it has an interesting and unique tower so we pulled over and sat in the car and sketched it.

I’m not used to starting with watercolor but I thought I’d give it a try. Definitely not able to get much detail in. Nothing like the first one of the church from this morning. Just fun and play.

On my way home I happened to spot 3 deer munching grass beside the road. By the time I turned around all I could get was one of the little ones.

Isn’t he cute?     K