Old Nags Head

  

 

 

 

These are four miniature paintings, each are 4 x 4 inches, that I painted en plein air while I was in Nags Head last week.   It was sunny, humid and warm most of the week, but the last two days were over cast and stormy and so I hit the beach with my painter’s box to capture some mood.   ‘Old Nags Head I’ was painted in the afternoon one day and ‘Old Nags Head II’ the next morning.   By the time I painted the fisherman standing in the surf the wind had picked up so much I couldn’t stand outside to paint.   So I set up my paint box just inside the sliding glass doors to the balcony and stood in the door way while I painted.   It was great getting out there and doing some en plein air painting, especially since a couple plein air events are coming up this next month.   Charles H. Taylor (4205 Victoria Drive, Hampton, VA /727 – 1490) is sponsoring a paint out this coming Saturday, October 3 with a Critique, Wine and Cheese Reception and Wet Paint Sale from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. that afternoon.

And the big one is the Out and About Norfolk paint out at the end of the month.   Artists will be painting around Norfolk on Thursday and Friday, October 22 and 23 and on Saturday evening, October 24 there will be a reception, awards ceremony and sale of art work created during the paint out.