Aria Sonoma, 12 x 16 inches, oil on linen
Friday. This is the last day of painting. We were to bring our best painting to the gala by 4 pm, which meant that the early part of the afternoon would have to be spent touching up, signing, photographing and framing all the paintings we'd done that week. The exhibition went up the next morning, so there would be no time to do all that on Saturday.
I still had all morning to paint, so back out on the open road I went. I'm not sure which road this was, but It was somewhere West of town, toward Petaluma.
At 12 x 16, it was considerably larger than the little road paintings I did earlier in the week. It's a nice, comfortable size for a plein air painting, especially if I didn't have to do any lettering or draw cars. This one was smooth sailing from start to finish, as a result.
Getting the paintings presentable for Saturday's show took a few hours and by the time I was done, I had just enough time to rush back to the house, get changed, and rush out to Cline Cellars, where the gala was to be held.
Cline's barrel room is a really nice event venue, and is perfect for this kind of thing. The artists arrived with their best paintings of the week, and I must say, I was pretty impressed with the work that everyone did.
I brought my Sebastiani Theatre painting. I decided against bringing the diner painting partly because I figured there'd be other truck paintings there, and also because I suffered so much for my theatre painting. The real reason, though, is that in the back of my mind I was secretly hoping to keep the diner painting for myself, and not sell it. I loved it that much.
But never mind. The gala went on, and the artists voted for the Artist's Choice award, which went to the old timer Dick Cole's beautiful watercolor painting. My Sebastiani Theatre piece got second place, just edged out by one vote. I shoulda voted for my own painting! haha~
Anyhow, the party was a lot of fun, and the foundation raised a lot of money this night for the arts programs in public schools of Sonoma County. Big kudos to the organizers for putting on such a successful gala event!
I still had all morning to paint, so back out on the open road I went. I'm not sure which road this was, but It was somewhere West of town, toward Petaluma.
At 12 x 16, it was considerably larger than the little road paintings I did earlier in the week. It's a nice, comfortable size for a plein air painting, especially if I didn't have to do any lettering or draw cars. This one was smooth sailing from start to finish, as a result.
Getting the paintings presentable for Saturday's show took a few hours and by the time I was done, I had just enough time to rush back to the house, get changed, and rush out to Cline Cellars, where the gala was to be held.
Cline's barrel room is a really nice event venue, and is perfect for this kind of thing. The artists arrived with their best paintings of the week, and I must say, I was pretty impressed with the work that everyone did.
I brought my Sebastiani Theatre painting. I decided against bringing the diner painting partly because I figured there'd be other truck paintings there, and also because I suffered so much for my theatre painting. The real reason, though, is that in the back of my mind I was secretly hoping to keep the diner painting for myself, and not sell it. I loved it that much.
But never mind. The gala went on, and the artists voted for the Artist's Choice award, which went to the old timer Dick Cole's beautiful watercolor painting. My Sebastiani Theatre piece got second place, just edged out by one vote. I shoulda voted for my own painting! haha~
Anyhow, the party was a lot of fun, and the foundation raised a lot of money this night for the arts programs in public schools of Sonoma County. Big kudos to the organizers for putting on such a successful gala event!
4 comments:
Agree that its a good size,shape of canvas to work on in one painting seesion. I think this is a lvoely work - the colours, tones seem just right.
Thanks Bridget! I appreciate it :-)
And a great time was had by all. My kind of event. A gorgeous road painting, Terry.
Thanks Autumn~ the road painting is in a very nice, frame too. I should post it with the frame on sometime. I am thinking of saving this one and including it in a landscape show that's happening in Chicago this fall. That's kinda close to where you are, right?
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