Thursday, June 19, 2008

Whoa Daddy

And so the adventure begins. Tomorrow is the first day of the Thanksgiving Point Plein Air Painting Festival. We call it an adventure to cover our inadequacies when we are faced with painting landscapes, from life, in two days... to display for our peers and potential buyers. In order to do all we can to be prepared, this afternoon we drove around the gardens for an hour in a golf cart, scoping out paintable vistas and vignettes. Though we had a lot of fun hanging off the back of the cart with my dad at the wheel... we came up with nothing. No idea what or where we are going to paint. I'm not nervous yet, but I am getting there. We also try to cover our shortcoming with humor, so you can expect something off the wall and out of the plein air norm. Here's to hoping we come up with something brilliant.

3 comments:

Natalie said...

I love Thanksgiving Point. It is so beautiful. It can't imagine painting it though. Good luck.

Julie said...

You'll do great. We'll all be blinded by the awesomeness!

ducklips said...

Here's showing my ignorance. I don't even know where this place is. I'm sure you'll do great though. Can't wait to see your commune w/ nature.