Our painters have scheduled many upcoming paintouts from March to October already, but missed the friendships created over the years in nicer weather. It’s been a cold windy winter for painting outdoors. Now an annual tradition, we had our 'winter salon' with Sherrill Primo which included a pot luck lunch. We had all sorts of visual stimulation from Diane Goupil's mother's historic paintings of mid century Grand Island to hand made paper scenes. Painting problems were solved, suggestions noted and we got to see a lot of new work from the crowd that participated.
Donna Hale's completed Snowball bouquet painting started a conversation....was it finished, did it need more red, how come the flowers look 3-d, and why was there a cover sheet over the pastel. It’s always nice to have a chance catch up and to talk about art for a longer time than our lunchtime critiques on the road.
