I decided to go to the Paint Herndon event sponsored by ArtSpace in Herndon yesterday (Sept 3). Luckily my friend and fab artist Tricia Ratliff told me that there are no rules as to subject matter. The title assumes a plein-air landscape painting event, but it was not, lucky for me.
I decided nonetheless to try my hand at plein air landscape painting and my worse subject -- architecture. I was set up in front of Zifferelli's (?) Italian restaurant, very quaint storefront in old town Herndon, but within an hour it was thundering and pouring rain, so I went back to ArtSpace -- wiped out my most horrific start of Zifferelli's -- and set up a still life. The first one I painted was the yellow wildflowers on the antique red stool. I had planned on painting one landscape and one still life, so I had jammed my car like a pack rat full of stuff, including this fabulous red stool. The yellow flowers come from the side of the road which I turned my car around for when I saw them. I have no idea what they are but they lasted all day (with water picks) and are beautiful.
I then had an hour left over and was convinced to paint another painting. I painted this small 8x10 garlic painting and it WON second prize. I painted it in 50 minutes which I think is a record. The whole day was a blast and I have to thank ArtSpace and Robin Carroll for such a great time. Unfortunately I forgot my camera, so these pictures were taken with my phone.
I've had a couple of inquiries about the price: The garlic painting is $295 and the wildflowers is $495. Both are framed. You can reach me through "comments". :-)
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