tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81385993034132883982024-02-07T22:20:28.804-08:00On the Plein Air Trail with Brenda BehrWelcome to my plein air journal. This is where you can keep abreast of my many plein air adventures. Here is where you’ll see all things paintable from elegant weddings in Charleston to the Blues Festival in Fargo.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.comBlogger296125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-28113746722534103582018-02-02T08:30:00.002-08:002018-02-02T08:30:20.990-08:00Winter escape<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: small;">Just got back from a wonderful winter-escape trip to <b>Port Saint Lucie, Florida</b>, home of retired friend <b>Rita Reinecker</b>. We managed a couple of trips to <b>Palm Beach</b> and a couple to <b>Stuart</b>, FL, a town that neighbors Port Saint Lucie. Did very little painting, but had my watercolors with me so did manage to paint these three.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A gallery that represents me in <b>Greensboro</b>, NC, has several customers who have second homes in the <b>Wilmington</b> area. Since I was going to Wilmington anyway, I called <b>Kathy</b>, the gallery owner, for suggestions of places I might paint. I had already started <b>Dockside</b> from the street when it was suggested I paint the popular restaurant from the water. I thought I would have to find a boat, but turns out, Dockside has its own dock. Of course they would.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-75232547444505525332017-08-10T07:51:00.001-07:002017-08-14T07:07:43.571-07:00Onto Wrightsville Beach<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Actually, this popular seafood eatery is in <b>Wilmington</b>. </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dockside Restaurant </b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">is</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, however, more highly associated with <b>Wrightsville Beach</b>. Located on the west side of the <span style="background-color: #f1f1f1; color: #333333;"><b>Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, it is just before one crosses over to Wrightsville Beach</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f1f1f1; color: #333333;">. It was perhaps the first seafood restaurant I can remember going to in North Carolina where the menu didn’t consist of mostly deep fried seafood. It was also the first place I tried soft shell crabs, served on buns with fries on the side. With all their legs extending out of the buns, the soft shell crab sandwiches look like they could run off. Buns with legs — </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">who’da thought?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was back in <b>Goldsboro</b> [from my trip to <b>Minnesota</b>] about a month, when I felt the need to get away again, this time for three days in the <b>Wilmington area</b>. I drove down on a Tuesday. Thinking it might rain the entire time I was there, I contacted the owner of a couple of popular restaurants to ask if I might paint inside his restaurants in the event of rain. With some skepticism, he granted me permission to come in before the restaurants opened their doors for dinner. Turns out I didn’t need to stay indoors. Although the skies were threatening, I managed to do this watercolor upon arriving my first day there. For those not familiar, Rx restaurant got its name because it is located in a building that formally housed </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a 20th century drug store.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For sure this is a detour. It actually takes me back to a visit with my friend Rita, who in January 2015 was wintering in an RV park in <b>Fort Meyer</b>s, Florida. A mutual friend of ours took me on a day trip south to the <b>Everglades</b>, a fabulous place to visit. Wildlife abounds in the National Park there. I took advantage of some time to do some <i>sumi-e</i> style watercolors. I painted mostly a Great Blue Heron, but couldn’t resist this alligator who seemed tame enough. Tomorrow, <i>Bird Break</i> is joining many other animals in a series of paintings I refer to as <b>BehrCritters</b>. Almost daily, a new <i>BehrCritter</i> watercolor goes up for auction. Click on today’s auction item, <i><a href="https://behrcritters.blogspot.com/2017/08/looking-back.html" target="_blank">Looking Back</a></i>, a pelican painted on a visit to <b>Oak Island</b>, NC.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Three days after my return to North Carolina in July, I drove to <b>Blowing Rock</b>, NC, where I taught a class to members of the local country club. I didn’t know until the night before that some of the students would be using, not what I had recommended, but watercolors and paper donated by <b>Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff</b>. The night before the class, in the kitchen of my host’s home, I decided I should do one myself using the materials provided. How I lust for her old fangled-looking stove. I just noticed, this floor has a striking resemblance to the floor in my last post.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-33460928924409498592017-08-05T08:20:00.001-07:002017-08-05T08:20:34.896-07:00The color of clean<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: #444444;">I couldn’t get less done this morning if I tried. Guess it’s Saturday morning. Going back to some vacation days when I was more productive, here’s <i>Sunporch at Judy and Steve’s</i>. I didn’t notice ’til later, there wasn’t a speck on the floor. Not on the sunporch, not in the house; probably not even on the deck. When Judy isn’t concocting some wonderful dish, she is picking up specks. It wasn’t until I painted this piece that I notice the little dots on the painted floor match the round balls that hold up the bookcase. Clever.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-7229945136774304492017-08-04T08:51:00.003-07:002017-08-04T08:51:47.787-07:00Minnesota excursion<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-31032584733292913172017-06-28T07:07:00.000-07:002017-06-28T07:07:38.539-07:00The Big Oak<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another iconic food joint, this one in <b>Salter Path, NC</b>. I pitched my umbrella in the blazingly hot, sunlit parking lot that day. Luckily, I found a patch off the pavement, which by noon, was filled with cars. I learned I can quick paint the cars, then put in a wash and proceed with the remainder of the painting. Vehicles, animals and people move constantly, and so present a challenge to a <i>plein air</i> painter.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-70331208784805000742017-06-27T06:10:00.001-07:002017-06-28T07:08:14.796-07:00Another Krispy Kreme<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back from <b>Krispy Kreme</b> two days later. Picking up a medium coffee and a traditional cake doughnut has become a habit ever since my system would allow me to drink coffee again. I put away my coffeemaker last year after a bout of <i>c diff colitis</i>, something I would not wish on anyone. I lost a much needed nineteen pounds, five pounds of which I have regained. I think I would have gained more had I reverted to my daylong habit of nursing coffee with hazelnut <b>Coffee-mate</b>®. Seems everything on the market with low fat is high in sugar, and everything sugarless is high in fat.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Speaking of fat, here’s the <b>Krispy Kreme</b> at <b>Peace</b> and <b>Person</b> streets in <b>Raleigh</b>. I’m happy to say I have done and sold more paintings of this shop than I have eaten doughnuts there. Can’t say the same for the Krispy Kreme here in <b>Goldsboro</b>, NC.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-3124150759309335292017-06-25T08:42:00.000-07:002017-06-25T08:44:44.763-07:00Do not is another way I should spell donut<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here’s a painting I did recently when I was a guest of friends at their mobile home in <b>Emerald Isle, NC</b>. Speaking of doughnuts, I haven’t yet made my daily run to my favorite local doughnut shop. Be back soon.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-20146902213477450332017-05-17T05:14:00.002-07:002017-05-17T05:14:54.536-07:00Vintage Business<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I remember the first time I was asked to paint a place of business. It was a commissioned painting that would become a gift to my customer’s husband. I drove out to take photos of the designated workplace, and I remember thinking I had never seen a more uninspiring subject matter. It was a one-story building, flat-roofed that appeared to stretch out forever. Without giving away where this was, I will stop here with the description.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not so with the business that was suggested I paint earlier this month in Chester, South Carolina. If someone had set me loose to paint any building in Chester, this is the one I may likely have chosen. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><b>Chester Laundry & Dry Cleaners</b></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is said to be the oldest business in Chester. Originally constructed as <b>Farthing Steam Laundry</b> prior to 1908, the business has been in the <b>Whitesides</b> family for more than one generation.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-83428764096702053942017-05-10T13:43:00.001-07:002017-05-10T13:44:14.129-07:00Wedding in Chester, South Carolina<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I just received my second booking to paint a wedding in 2018. How time flies! This will mark my tenth year to receive commissions to paint weddings.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last weekend I painted my first rained-out wedding, this one in <b>Chester, South Carolina</b>. The show went on, of course, but under a tent, not as planned. Both me and my paintings were rained on at the Friday evening rehearsal. The rehearsal dinner following was inside, and although it was unseasonably cold out, at least we were under shelter for dinner. Here’s historic Lowrys Schoolhouse, converted to a community center, where dinner and toasts followed the rehearsal.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fast forward to North Carolina and to spring. Finally, the weather was such on Tuesday that I could get in some <i>plein air</i> painting. This is the third watercolor I did that day. The <b>Rialto</b> is Raleigh’s most popular theater, maybe its most popular theater, period. I have sold every painting I have done of it. In 2008, I put a not-so-subliminal title in the marquis. When the movie <i>Words and Pictures</i> came around, I painted the theater, including movie title, mostly because I liked the name of the movie so much. I don’t know who bought the watercolor, but when someone saw it had sold, they asked me to paint it again on commission. His daughter had been proposed to the night she and her future husband attended the movie and had become engaged.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, the name of this one is <i>Your Favorite Movie Here</i>. I am willing to put the title in upon request by the person who buys the painting.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-4017173828776143832017-03-13T06:36:00.002-07:002017-03-13T06:36:54.535-07:00View from a window
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I had known what crummy weather we would be having in Carolina in March, I may have chosen this month to go to California. Turns out, the weather was largely the same, except there was possibly more rain in what is supposed to be “sunny” California. I experienced a couple of perfect days to stay indoors. Kelley’s house included a lovely view of the backyard which had in it a fabulous <b>Jacuzzi</b> hot tub. On a sunnier day, I managed to squeeze in a watercolor of her house. Paintings like these make good host gifts when I travel. Kelley proved to be the ultimate host on my trip.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-77104237283528573642017-03-04T05:54:00.001-08:002017-03-04T05:54:46.069-08:00It's In the Details<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where would we be without our phones to tell us what day we were where? After painting <b>Hidden House Coffee</b> in San Juan Capistrano, I moved my car, so as not to overstay my welcome in the free lot, and slipped over to <b>Mission San Juan Capistrano</b>. Sitting outside a <b>Starbucks, </b>I painted this view of the entry to the landmark mission. Paintings in this style beg for details. The person who introduced me to calligraphic watercolors, <b>Frank Webb</b>, was a former student of Watercolor Great <b>Edgar Whitney</b>. It is difficult for me to remember which is a Webb quote and that which Webb pulled from his large collection of Whitney quotes. Speaking of calligraphic watercolors, “It is not about the nouns; it’s about the adjectives” is one of my favorites. Subject matter with more adjectives than this scene offered would have made for a better calligraphic watercolor.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-30040165811807837542017-02-26T06:21:00.000-08:002017-02-26T06:25:40.556-08:00Edible Icons<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was wrong. It was my fourth day, my third full day, that I painted <b>Hidden House Coffee</b>. The first day, I spent within the walls of <b>Mission San Juan Capistrano</b>, painting the ruins of a church. Visit my <a href="https://brendabehr.com/blog/117224/mission-san-juan-capistrano" target="_blank">web site blog post</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The afternoon of my second full day, I drove to <b>Balboa Island</b> to paint the landmark <b>Frozen Banana</b> place that earlier I had put on my mental checklist of things to paint. If it’s anything like <b>Krispy Kreme</b> is to North Carolinians, and I lived in the area, paintings of this place would be a bread and butter money-maker for me. But alas! I live in <b>North Carolina</b>, and, dollars to doughnuts, paintings of Frozen Banana establishments here would be about as popular as Krispy Kreme shop paintings would be in <b>California</b>.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-73461824632555214502017-02-22T07:25:00.003-08:002017-02-22T07:29:58.432-08:00California<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was my second day in California. Just, the day before, I had been introduced to California freeways when I’d dropped my second cousin off at <b>John Wayne Airport</b>, just south of L.A. It was a good introduction, still dark out, the rush traffic had just begun to build.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was also my second day to head for <b>San Juan Capistrano</b>, not so very far from where I was staying in <b>Laguna Niguel</b>. There was a parking lot there near the Amtrak station that allowed five hours free parking. I’d been given rave reviews of nearby <b>Hidden House Coffee</b>, and it was my intent to paint it. Between coats of paint, I could slip in and grab a coffee. This style of watercolor requires two coats, a very loose wet coat, which, when totally dry, is followed by a second coat of calligraphic brushstrokes that define the details.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-30982239028451081592016-08-05T13:00:00.000-07:002016-08-06T05:48:50.590-07:00Black-eyed Susans<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am not the only one I know who has felt a little down lately. Something about the days getting shorter reminds us that winter is on its way. But, not that quite. On the contrary, it has been too dang hot for <i>plein air</i> painting. And for that, we can blame summer. So today, just to get a little dose of Vitamin D, I faced the heat and finished this watercolor of my neighbor’s house with her Black-eyed Susans. Started years ago, I wish I had finished it before Barbara passed this year. </span></span> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-32149140280428277072016-07-19T06:44:00.002-07:002016-07-19T06:46:14.654-07:00Mountain Getaway<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Brenda’s in Blowing Rock</i>, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9½x7" watercolor</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When it is not possible to stay with friends, I have started looking for <b>Airbnb</b> accommodations. Last weekend I stayed at a lovely home in Blowing Rock, NC. I absolutely loved my stay there. A second room for a small additional fee was available for my traveling friend, Sandi. We were in Blowing Rock to participate in a paint out at <b>Moses H. Cone Memorial Park</b> with other members of <b>PAINT NC</b> (acronym for <b>P</b>lein <b>A</b>ir <b>I</b>n <b>T</b>he <b>T</b>riangle).</span></span></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-14398630574243659302016-03-31T08:53:00.001-07:002016-04-07T05:21:27.691-07:00Spring at last<div style="text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i>Praise the Lord</i>, <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9½x7" watercolor</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Spring has finally arrived in all her glory and it feels great to get out again and paint. I had vowed at one time only to share my <i>plein air</i> watercolors on this blog, but because I am doing more and more oils, both in and out of the studio, I have less time for watercolors. It didn’t take long Sunday to run over to <b>First Presbyterian Church</b> here in Goldsboro to paint the church with the cross visitors had so beautifully decorated. The really brightly colored flowers are azaleas. Cool temperatures on Sunday kept them from wilting.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-18874894935426109172016-01-13T08:07:00.000-08:002016-01-13T08:07:25.711-08:00à peindre à l'intérieur<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I wish there was a better French term for painting inside. <i>Plein air</i> is, of course, the term for painting outdoors, but painting indoors in French is <i>peindre à l'intérieur</i>, not a term that easily rolls off the tongue.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Regardless, it was a wonderful escape yesterday to paint with several of the members of <b>Paint NC</b>, a group of <i>plein air</i> painters living mostly in the area in North Carolina know as the <b>Triangle</b>. The paint out was at <b>Garden Supply Company</b> in <b>Cary</b>, NC. Finding we could choose to paint inside or out, was all I needed to hear to convince me to go. What a shopping mecca inside that store, so full of the quaint and unusual.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-89580052479772857352016-01-01T06:08:00.002-08:002016-01-01T06:08:29.797-08:00Happy New Year<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I’ve decided to turn over a new leaf this year, so I put kale on my shopping list. I also have more plein air painting on my list. In</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> spite of the mild December weather here in North Carolina, </span>a full docket of painting commissions allowed me time to paint outside only once. Above is the small watercolor I did in Charlotte in mid-December after I had delivered some artwork to a customer who attends this church. <b>First Presbyterian</b> has its own parking lot, so, in spite of a <b>Panthers</b> game that day, parking was a non-issue in downtown Charlotte.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-11213844784509510492014-10-01T08:02:00.002-07:002016-07-19T07:05:30.253-07:00Double Vision: Kinston and beyond opening reception October 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tomorrow evening from 6-8pm there will be a meet-the-artist reception at the <b>Community Council for the Arts in Kinston</b>, North Carolina for <b><i>Double Vision: Kinston and beyond</i></b>, the third of artist Robert Rigsby’s and my <i>Double Vision</i> exhibitions. This show will include sixty-four pairs of paintings Robert and I have done, mostly while plein air painting side by side.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8138599303413288398.post-70023470969891575212014-09-28T05:50:00.002-07:002014-09-28T05:50:52.457-07:00Once in a lifetime<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Last week I participated in <b>Peidmont Plein Air 2014</b>, an <span>inaugural </span>juried paint out in <b>High Point</b>, North Carolina that went on for four days. The first night, I stayed up and painted my room at <b>JH Adams Inn</b>. Having been generously treated to dinner at the five-star <b>Hampton’s Restaurant</b>, by fellow plein air painters <b>Jim Carson</b> and <b>Sandi Botstein</b>; then landing in this lavish room, <b>Talking Heads</b>’ “Once in a
Lifetime” 80’s lyrics went through my head. “How did I get here?,” I had
to ask myself.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12605500464770144042noreply@blogger.com1