Note from Pine Shores President...
Hello, My Artistic Friends,
Welcome to Summer! May I suggest an underused venue for your painting during the heat of summer? Your own porch or balcony!
While plein air can be an inviting, fulfilling experience, it can come with baggage, both literally and figuratively. We need an easel, a bag of
our medium of choice, including many more colors than we need, a handful of brushes, rags, and on and on. And one does get hot
and sweaty, enticing little flying, or crawling friends.
There’s always something interesting that we can seefrom our porch, even if only the flip flops I’ve just kicked off. I keep an old beloved
but substantial easel beside the door to my porch, also a TV tray.
I take both out the short, very short, distance to my spot of the day, carrying no more supplies than 3 brushes, 4 tubes of paint, a canvas or w/c paper, a small jar of water or turpenoid, a rag, and very few little friends! For a break, I can crawl onto a chaise lounge and peruse
my work.
Voila! The lazy woman’s approach to summertime painting!
Lonny