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     This house was located there on the backstreets of Rico. It was situated among a couple other really colorful house just a few hours before sunset. I thought Carol's plein air painting jumped up a level while on this trip. I loved the one she did of this house called Pink House 2. While in Rico we ran into Jill Carver who is an excellent plein air painter and winner of many awards, we had a chance to sit in her back yard and chew the fat a little.
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     We were thinking about painting the old Railroad Water Tower at first, but it had alot of brush growing around it. We keep driving on the little road circling around Trout Lake. At the very far end we found this great view. Penny's umbrella caught a gust and it almost took her easel back to California.

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     Every day or so I will be positng a new field study from a series I did on a one week trip up to Colorado. I met Carol Marine and her friend Penny Lentz to paint and enjoy the weather. I had a ton of fun. Carol and I shared our opinions on each others paintings and I learned some things about painting urban scenes which was an area I was not as experienced in.  I was used to increasing the intensities in a normal landscape to liven it up, but in a urban scene there was already more color usually than I actually needed. So by greying down some color in key areas of architectural painting you can emphasize other more important areas easier. It's actually alot about looking too hard into the shadow and painting more color than the main motif can stand. Read More