2 - good

crabapple tree (?) in field near former Widmer's Winery in Naples, NY - for my first time back at this in months, I'm okay with how it came out

Okay, not a great show here... But as of today, I was officially accepted to participate in the First Annual Finger Lakes Plein Air Competition - hooray!!! So it's time to jump back in and really get serious about pursuing this passion -
Henceforth on this blog: the good, the bad & the ugly...

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GVPAP pastel workshop along University Ave., Rochester NY..

demo by member Kathleen Hanney:



unfinished: wanted to "flesh out" the foreground and contents of the window display - but oh well, that's as far as I got before time was up

I need a broader range of pastels - didn't have all the colors I needed and it's not like paint where you can mix your own colors.. Hence, depicting the building color as light purple instead of the eggplant color it actually is

Goal: to paint 100 plein air paintings in one year (by July 12, 2012). Inspired by painter and instructional author Kevin MacPherson who advises this exercise