First Annual PG ART RETREAT!

I'm a lucky girl
....my friends came down to PG
with me for a few days to play art.
We had a great time
and did as much art as I could fit in.

Here are the things we did
sketching, still lifes, plein aire, watching an art dvd, plein aire painting, paint in the style of another artist, collage/circle text poetry,
eating, walking, talking, and a little shopping

as I said we had the BEST TIME!

SKETCHING

We walked from PG to Monterey and stopped at 3 places along the way to sketch.

Working from real life is fun and difficult.
But with practice, and friends it is the best!

Sketching in a restaurant...when it is not too crowded.

STILL LIFE

We set up our own still life in the evening.
We were tired from the day,
but rejuvenated by dinner and
the chance to paint inside from a real life object.

"Sweet Peas and Tea"
9" x 12" oil



CARMEL VALLEY DAY
We hiked, sketched, went to an organic farm and sketched some more. and then headed to Carmel for dinner and browse through a few art galleries.





A Little Plein Aire Painting...

We tried painting in the style of another Artist

Here we are below with a couple of attempts to push ourselves to try something new.

Hangin' Out

PG Art Retreat
Artful Touches
Relax
Enjoy
Try
Learn
Laugh
See the world in a new light
CREATE

Art, Family, Fun!....Pacific Grove Summer...2009

Lover's Point in the Sunshine

3 Plein Aire Paintings + 3 Still Lifes =
My Summer Art

Hiking and enjoying nature together

Taking Time to
Appreciate
the Small things
in Life!

...and the silly ones too....

Silly Boys!

Flower Market find....turns into.....


...new art to enjoy at home!

The Art Spirit

The Art Spirit

by Robert Henri

I started off my vacation finding this book at a used book store the first day.

It is a book written in 1923 by American Artist, Robert Henri.

It embodies the entire system of his teaching,

plus inspiration for those to whom

the happiness to be found through all the arts is important."There are Moments in our lives....

There are Moments in our days....

when we seem to see beyond the usual - become clairvoyant.

We reach then into reality.

Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

At such times there is a SONG going on within us,

as SONG to which we listen.

It fills us with SURPRISE.

We marvel at it.

We would continue to hear it.

But few are capable of holding themselves in the state of listening to their own SONG.

Intellectuality steps in and as the SONG within us is of the utmost sensitiveness,

it retires in the presence of the cold, material intellect.

We fall back and become our ordinary selves.

Yet we live in the memory of these SONGS

which in moments of intellectual inadvertence have been possible to us.

They are the pinnacles of our experience

and it is the desire to express these intimate sensations,

THIS SONG FROM WITHIN, WHICH MOTIVATES

THE MASTERS OF ALL ART."

Robert Henri

Here are just a few of the things

I've been working on down in Pacific Grove.

Here at Ford Ord State Park
just north of the Monterey area I decided to set up.

The weather held up nicely,

only at the end (about an hour)

I was having to hold onto everything as the winds picked up.

Second day I set up at

Lover's Point in Pacific Grove

....it was cold, and cloudy and a little windy...but I worked for 2 hours.I also took photos and uploaded them to my laptop and then painted from some of those.

Below you can see the upclose painting of the Gerber daisy in the vase.

Then...I spent about an hour on
painting the flowers I bought at the farmer's market in town.

Flower Market Find

6" x 8" oil


I really enjoyed this one

as I was very happy with

the pitcher and and the lighting.

More to Come!

"Look for what you love...

Try to capture it...

Anywhere - Everywhere

Learn to see...

To understand...

ENJOY!"

Robert Henri