Find Shade. Shade is important to plein air artists as the sun gives your colors unusual brightness and paintings look muddy when brought indoors. Sun also makes us hotter when the temperature is trying to break records. I didn't plan to paint and went to Whirlpool for a few minutes and to take pictures. Whirlpool is a long narrow park along the ridge of the Niagara Gorge and painters were nowhere to be found, until I stepped under the massive trees on the parkway side of the park. Nestled in a solid area of deep dark cool shadows, three painters were relaxing, escaped from the searing heat and feasting on the light and shadows of DeVeaux woods.
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| Joan Shaw, looking towards the old Devil's Hole path. |
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| Sherrill Primo, who plans to return another morning to complete this painting. |
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| colors beginning in the park |
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| Donna Hale, using pastel |
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