Water Lily Pond 1

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Outdoor Painting

I never enjoyed painting outdoors. After a couple frustrating tries, I decided for sure I couldn't do it. Too messy, too much wind and sun, too hard to capture the images without using a photograph. But when my art class announced a paint-out at one of the member's beautiful backyard gardens, I couldn't say no.

 

As I dragged my lawn chair, painting supplies, easel, and hat across the yard, I marveled at the beautiful lake spread out before me. Soon I was splashing paint (randomly) across the paper, sketching in the blue lake and sky and green trees and bushes. I wanted to include all the pretty things around the lake as well - the dock, board walk, windmill, and lots of lily pads. I took a lot of photographs, but I will show you my painting first since it looks very pitiful against the pictures!