A couple of weeks ago I was in Hampton painting en plein air with some fellow Hampton Art League members.    It was great fun and I always appreciate the camaraderie among the artists.   

This first painting is a 12 x 9 Oil painting of a building  at the end of a side street in downtown Hampton that backs up to the Hampton River – I won’t be able to remember exactly what street unless I go back to Hampton and find it – it may have been at the end of East Sunset.  

I loved the way the morning light was hitting the white building and how all of the shadows from the tree seemed to danced across it.  

This second painting is a 4 x 4 miniature oil of downtown Hampton.

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.

August 28

A Lovely Pose Today

This was a lovely pose, the model bathed in morning light.

Rose Arbor

I finished this painting today – its not signed yet - and took a quick photo before I left the studio.   I’ve been doing a lot of work with graphite, ink and colored pencils lately so painting in oils this week has been lucious for me.

Downtown

Bright and Cheerful II

24 x 24      Oil

My latest finished painting.   A commission for a grandmother who loves her grandbabies and loves their bright and cheerful faces.

Thanks

Thanks to all of you who responded to my questionnaire about trees in the Hampton Roads area.   I’ve collected more than enough information and many useful insights.   My knowledge of native trees is sketchy and you all helped me a great deal and gave me some wonderful suggestions.   I now will be including some trees I was unaware of before and that will help me create more local ‘flavor’ in this new series which is scheduled to exhibit at the Norfolk Botanical Gardens in the spring of 2011.

Many trees are blooming now – the lovely Mimosa, the Crepe Myrtles, some of the Magnolias.   I’m off to paint.

Alisa

24 x 30     Oil on linen

Yorkie Puppy

12 x 16     Oil

16 x 12     Oil