This Year's Artist's Residency

The scenery at Panama City Beach is much different than New York’s Finger Lakes region, where I spent a week painting last September. This year, I was again fortunate enough to be right on the water, with the ability to paint from the front porch.

Which was good because it was actually quite hot outside, especially between 10-4. I’ll write more later about the challenges of painting sunrises and sunsets and how difficult it was trying to capture the changing light “en plein air,” especially with oils. I have some photographs to use as reference but those never really capture what you see as you stand and watch the real thing.

The first painting you see above is the one I was painting in these photos, looking down to the left. This one is facing the other direction, looking to the right (west).

These are small acrylics, which will go in readymade 11 x 14” frames with mattes under glass. I painted the sunrises and sunsets in oils and even did a watercolor of the condo where I stayed. More about that later too – this year I “paid” for my residency week with two paintings of my hostess’ home.

Yes, tomorrow is Final Friday at the Pendleton Art Center again – Friday October 25 from 6-10 pm (I’ll be there in my studio on the 5^th floor around 5 pm). Next month’s will be on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) – November 29. I won’t be at December’s Final Friday on 12/27/13 but instead will do the Pendleton’s Holiday Open House on Saturday December 14 from 11 am to 3 pm. For more details about the Open House or Final Fridays at the Pendleton, see www.pendletonartcenter.com or look for Pendleton Art Center, Friends of The Pendleton Art Center, and Art in Action (https://www.facebook.com/#!/PendletonAIA) on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.