This week started off in full swing with the Double Decker Arts Festival in Oxford, Mississippi. This is such a great festival with large crowds (this year was a record) and very high quality art. On Day 179, the Oxford Art Guild and the North Mississippi Plein Air Painters were invited to start the festival off with demonstrations around the Oxford square. The iconic Square Books building is a staple for so many artists and I was drawn to it as usual. Decided to concentrate on the building entrance verses the building as a whole. I love having small studies like this to base larger paintings on later. After Square Books I could help but notice Tres Belle Boutique's balcony display and so I painted another quick study before heading out to teach class.
Day 180 was Double Decker Day! The crowd was huge. I started the morning early with morning sun on the courthouse. I love painting and visiting. I feel it brings the outside world into what we artists love so much. I painted a few more quick scenes as the day wore on and met and visit a lot of people old and new. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hello and who became new collectors!
Day 181 was back to the quiet, peaceful, Delta. Did a late day study of the Al's old tractor which is always a great subject. Loved how the light played on the reds of the tractor, even how it played on the tires! Finding beauty in the ordinary.
Day 182 found me doing another (I can never do to many) study of mud puddles. The ditch in front of the house is rutted up by 4 wheeler tracks and gave this study and almost abstract appearance .
Day 183 was a LONG day and yes I was tired when I finally found a time to paint. I was not inspired, I was not in the mood, but I made myself get out and do it. Took a little different approach and just let my knife to all the work. The late evening sun and the different shapes and shades of the greens actually wound up being fun.
Days 184 and 185 finally brought a chance to study red clover. I was so afraid we wouldn't have a good year for clover because it is very late blooming, but it showed up after all. Nothing like hills and hills of red blooms - an artist's dream. (Maybe as spectacular as the poppies in France!)
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