I feel like my artistic pulse is about to pop! I just spent a week on Lake Russell in SC, my skin drinking in the healthy sunlight, all my senses soaring with the cranes and eagles as I flew with them across the glassy green water on my little Yamaha wave runner, they soaring high, me cruising low but swift  as the wind, then settling in a still little cove where pine and hard wood cast mighty reflections on the lake, and geese and ducks glided by as fish periodically sent bubbles to the surface.  I wanted to breathe in everything but a bit of paint or pastel was my only hope of  really recording any of the sensations.  Oh how inadequate! God paints in light and truth.

But every day I painted something, sometimes a water color sketch, because water color was the easiest medium to pack on a wave runner, but most often  in oils or pastels.  My brother-in-law let me ride his pontoon over to an island where I was dropped off for a morning of plein air. It was the fasted morning ever and I could have stayed all day without a regret.  

I’m really looking forward to the end of the month when I  join the  Plein Air Painters of the Southeast at Leatherwood Mountains vacation resort  for” some unprecedented painting and artist networking opportunities.” I’ll be camping in our little trailer  among beautiful scenery and maybe even see some trail riders.   I’ll give you an update soon!