September Art Activities 2014

A busy month is planned in September. I taught a 2 day watercolor workshop for the Brush and Palette Art Club in Alexandria, MN.
- first day was a class in watercolor and then use of the Elegent Writer Pen on the second day in a variety of methods.
It went well, I was happy and so were the participants. They took good care of me!

Tomorrow, I leave for a 5 day annual paint out in the 3rd week of September with a group of artists arriving from Minnesota and Wisconsin.
It has swelled to 36 participants this year, men and women, and many are very capable teachers of workshops themselves. We gather at an environmental camp somewhere convenient to a majority of the folks and then move the location around the state. This photo shows the lovely spacious work center we enjoyed at Camp Wapogasset Lutheran Camp. Many of the group enjoyed the rivers, lake scenes and beautiful leaves and painted en plaine aire.

I always feel like I need to take a lot of my art supplies along - even the kitchen sink! (not really!) but as I see someone else doing something new.... I have some of the supplies along to try it out also. Art stores are never very close.
3 meals a day and a nice facility for sleeping, eating and working is offered at great group rates.
Check it out on the internet for your state of residence. You will be surprised at the good rates available for groups.

I am preparing for many options for display this fall 2014.
Sontes, a fine dining restaurant in Rochester, MN has chosen to feature my work in their upcoming fall and winter art display (for about 6 months). I will deliver paintings there by October 1st. The free reception to celebrate the art show is planned for October 12 afternoon and it is a sight to behold!
The City of St Cloud is encouraging an outpouring of art this fall to be displayed ito the community via the Government buildings, the Paramount Art Center and The Rivers Edge Convention Center, who are all hosting large groupings of art.
Besides displaying in these venues, I will also be displaying on the Clemens East exhibition wall at the Whitney Senior Center, St. Cloud, MN for October and November 2014. I will also have another wall there November and December 2014.
As juried art shows and member shows come along of my art organizations this fall, I plan to participate.