Three of us painted at the Alford Train Station. It was gray and chillier than any of us realized until we had spent four hours standing on the tracks. Thankfully, Joanne brought M&M's.
We had to search for color and I think we found it. These are our three paintings as they left the location. I think we may all make minor changes after the fact...I sure didn't mean for those two trees to be quite so black.
Since, I do not seem to be able to control where the images end up on blogger, the pastel of the train station (top, I hope) is by Chris Lathrop...she rarely works in pastel. Joanne Benson was working in oils...not her usual pastels or watercolor...and she painted a slightly different view of the station & tracks (bottom, last time I looked). And my painting of the *Switch Tower (center?) is my usual combination of soft pastels this time on Blue Haze Art Spectrum Colourfix paper.
As always, we enjoyed each other's company and a day out painting. And we missed you.
*By the way, I found out that the Switch Tower, built in 1915, was used to switch the multiple tracks in use at the time. It was all done mechanically with steel rods and levers and muscle power. We thought the building would make a great studio with it's glass balcony & windows and tree top view.
3 comments:
Hi Rodrica,
Wow,your photos look great! My painting looks better in the photo....for once!!!!! Thanks for setting up the paintout. Thoroughly enjoyed it! If we don't go to the lake, I'll join you on Friday! Joanne
Good job! Wish I could have been there.
Great job, the paintings look great lots of color even though the day was grey. Wish I could have been there!
Maryann
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