Lockport Locks

Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters
May 2010


Traveling West from Rochester to Buffalo along the Erie Canal requires passage through the
Lockport Locks, a 60 foot rise in five gigantic steps to reach the level of the Niagara River. Considering that the Canal was dug in the early 1800's the scale of these locks is awesome.


Donna & Sharon
getting the essence.


















Looking East





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Beverly & Linda
making a day of it.

Buffalo Grain Elevators

Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters
May 2010





Great Northern
Grain Elevator







Paulette painting.









Peggy, Sharon, Paulette


On a crisp May morning Paulette Jurek, Peggy Walker, Sharon Fundaliski, Susie Sheron, Metta Hata, gathered at the mouth of the Buffalo Canal in the RCR Marina to paint a piece of Buffalo's industrial heritage. Two ancient grain elevators, the Great Northern and Frontier, cast watchful eyes toward us as we set up our painting gear. Although the workers from the marina were busy launching huge sail boats, a couple were curious about our work and stopped to chat.

Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters
Electric Tower Paint Out
April 2010

View from 14th floor ----- Peggy's painting

For the Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters the sky is the limit!

A world class view from Buffalo's historic Electric Tower - 14th floor

Painting amongst the clouds posed unusual challenges for painters

Deborah Kane, Linda Piper, Kath Schifano, Beverly McIntyre, Joan Turrell,Paulette Jurek, Mette Hata, Peggy Walker, Sharon Fundalinski

Spring at Niagara Falls!

Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters met at Three Sisters Islands to paint yesterday & it was exhilarating! It's nice to be painting outside again with Sharon Fundalinski, Peggy Walker, Joan Shaw, Manning McCandlish and more! We were settled on each of the islands painting our own views. In the end, some of the same blue/gray/greens were in each artist's picture, but they were all completely different.

I finished this scene on location. As I dragged my tired self & painting equipment to the car, balancing this big wet picture, I was struck by flowers growing wild in dappled sunlight along the path to the parking lot. I pulled out my used brushes & palette and sketched the shadowed path on a small canvas with oils remaining from the first picture.

Three Sisters Islands Paint Out - May 2010

Heading to a paint out in a thunder storm is enough to question one's sanity, but the lure of Three Sisters Islands and the hope that Nature would change her mind was enough for me to push onward. These postage stamp islands, strung together by rustic stone foot bridges, sit amidst the roar of the legendary Niagara River rapids. The force of surging current is palpable, and the views spectacular. Climbing over steadfast ancient boulders to find the perfect painting place was worth every step. Only such rock piles as these could endure the relentless pounding of rushing water for centuries on end.