Plein Air Paint Out - Chicago
Oil Pastel Society -
On Saturday, May 20th, seven oil pastel artists met to paint plein air together. We met at the
This was the second meeting of the Chapter and first time a group of oil pastel artist had gotten together to paint.
We had great weather and lots of fun. It was interesting to see the different set-ups each person used. We spread out over 2 blocks to paint for about 2 hours.
Here are some photos of everyone painting.
Here we all are doing an impromptu show-and-tell while we wait for our lunch table.
And here is my effort for the morning:
Since I had coordinated the event, I did some walking around to see how everyone was doing. This is about 1 &1/2 hours and I'd say it is maybe a little more than halfway done.
I think I'd like to use this and photos to start a new painting. After looking more at the "real" fountain, I think I need to mutely paint what is behind it and then overlay the water highlights.
We had so much fun that we are going to try scheduling another paint-out soon.
If you live in the
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