9 - bad

My third and final entry for the Finger Lakes Plein Air Festival - my least favorite because I think it became over-worked and ugh, the colors are way too garish. (the colors were tricky to pin down, as evidenced by the variation in the photos below) And the location was a total mosquito haven - got my ankles all bit up!

One of my biggest lessons during this experience: I must graduate to larger canvasses!


coffee before I started (just after sunrise, though the lighting here doesn't look like it) - put my camera w self-timer on the ledge of that sign:

this photo shows the most accurate representation of the lighting at first:


It started out being a fun setting: a parking spot along Rt. 21 with a view of an inlet to the West River (just south of Canandaigua Lake). When I first pulled in, a family of geese (2 adults; 2 young ones) stayed very still (first photo taken through car windshield). As soon as I got out of the car they quickly & efficiently made their way to the water, plunked in one by one, and swam away. For a few moments their trail remained, creating sort of a curtain opening in the green duckweed covering the water's surface.

8 - good

My second painting for the Finger Lakes Plein Air Festival.

This was sort of an act of bravery for wimpy me - I stood on the sidewalk amidst the boxes of flowers. Joseph's had closed but people walked, bicycled and drove right past where I stood.

It was early evening, approx. 7:30pm when I started - so I had to paint quickly before the light disappeared, which ended up being a really good exercise for me. I like this one the best of the three I painted during the festival weekend.





(you can see how tiny my canvas is relative to the baldes of grass)

But guess what? At the final exhibition this painting sold!!!
My first piece of work to sell - WooHoo!!! :D

7 - good

My first painting for the Finger Lakes Plein Air Festival!



For this view, I stood near the intersection of Sunnyside & Cayward Cross in the Middlesex Valley:

I talked to the homeowner across the road (to make sure it was okay to stand on his property) - He told me he thought the different colored stripes in the field were wheat, barley and hay

At one point two deer playfully hopped across the field I was painting :)