Plein Air– Sharon Woods

Fall Color
12" x 16", Oil on Canvas
10/2015

Our last outing for South West Ohio Plein Air this year was to Sharon Woods Park. We made in just before all the fall color departed. The leaf display was short lived, probably due to dry weather in August and September. Most of the trees that have yellow leaves just turned brown and fell off. This was the most colorful location I found in the park.

Old Church Yard...Revisited

Old Church Yard 2
16"x 20", Oil on Canvas
10/2015

A trip to the grave yard just before Halloween, but looking in from the sunny side! From certain angles the Mariemont Community Chapel and grounds look like just what they were intended to. In the same flavor as the rest of the development, they were to replicate the flavor of an elizabethan village. Half-timbered tudor homes and businesses predominate. If you get off busy Kellogg Avenue, Mariemont has that same slow paced ambiance.

Art In Bloom– CAM

Iris– Art In Bloom
16" x 12", Oil on Canvas
10/2015

I participated at Cincinnati Art Museum's "Art In Bloom" by painting with a group of other artists from the Cincinnati Art Club on Friday. For "Art In Bloom", the museum has local flower arrangers make displays to coordinate with specific artwork in galleries throughout the facility. The artists were asked to paint from arrangements place in the Great Hall of the museum, so we had plenty of company and interested viewers from 10:00A-4:00P.

Plein Air– Spring Grove

Spring Grove– Sycamore 2
9" x 12", Oil on Canvas Panel
10/2015

What a difference the seasons make! Painting plein air in Spring Grove Cemetery yesterday, I decided to paint a subject I've worked on before. This sycamore trees makes the most beautiful subject with it's low hanging branch, swooping over the water. This is the version in Fall. I'll also include the previous version from several Springs ago.

Spring Grove– Sycamore
9" x 12", Oil on Canvas Panel
4/2012

Ohio River at Augusta, Kentucky

Ohio Tow Boat
9" x 12", Oil on Canvas Panel
10/2015

A photo taken from the Augusta Ferry this weekend was the inspiration for this painting. The rains have made the Ohio River murky, but the reflected sky made all the waves so blue. A beautiful and breezy crossing to Augusta, Kentucky on the way to the Baker-Bird Winery.

Plein Air– Governor Bebb Reserve

Governor Bebb Village
12" x 16", Oil on Canvas
10/2015

One of those collections of historic buildings from a particular locale, the village at Governor Bebb Preserve actually seems close to what a village in 1800 would have looked like. Set up more naturally around an irregular town green, the building are not placed too close to each other or in too planned an arrangement.

The preserve is on the far western reaches of Butler County in SW Ohio and is particularly pretty at this time of the year. The fall color should be at its peak this weekend and next.

Plein Air– Clifton

Probasco Fountain
12" x 16", Oil on Canvas
10/2015

The SWOPA Thursday paint out was in the Clifton Gaslight District of Cincinnati this week. We met at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center (old Clifton School) on Clifton Avenue (a lot of Cliftons in there!). My painting is of the Probasco Fountain, which has been moved twice to better protect it from the cars speeding up the road. The cars move so fast I couldn't catch them in my painting!