"Just We Two" by Dianne Lorden

This afternoon I had a craving to do something very different from all the Gettysburg Festival to-do, so I chose something simple - something I could accomplish in one sitting with ease, to sort of reboot me -- from one of my Florida trip pics. These two just tickled me!
5" x 7" pen & ink w/a bit of colored pencil (Derwent Studio)
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"Summertime" by Debra Tritt-Kreiger

"Summertime" 24"x36" Watercolor on 140lb Arches paper

This is a little scene from the Noggles Sweet Meadow Greenhouse in Mechanicsburg. All those wonderful flowers and scents telling us to sit and enjoy!

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"Bushman Farm House" by Dianne Lorden

Hey all, this is a plein air in pastel that I didn't get to complete in time for the Gettysburg Festival this year. The Bushman Farm is visible from one of the stops along the auto tour of the Gettysburg National Military Park. It's got wonderful stonework. There's been so very much to do lately, and so little time to do it! Once my show is hung this week at Gunnar Galleries (in the Sewing Factory, Fourth St. in Gettysburg) I hope to get back to some of the painting projects I've been looking forward to. View my work at South Mountain Sketchbook:

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Orchard At Round Barn by Mary Beth Brath

Orchard At Round Barn

8x10" Acrylic on Masonite

Created Plein Air during the Gettysburg Festival

This was painted during the first day of the 2010 Gettysburg Fringe Festival Paint Out. The orchard is on the property of the Historic Round Barn in Biglerville PA. I plan to paint often in this area of Pennsylvania. My GPS took me on a small dirt road through the vineyards in the area and it was like being in a different world.

Daily Painter of Pennsylvania Mary Beth Brath

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Glendevy Lodge 1982, by Linda Young

Crystal Meadows Ranch circa 1970

Watercolor by Linda Young

12" x 20-1/4"

This painting is done from my time at Crystal Meadows Ranch in Somerset, Colorado where I lived in the 1980’s. The following is a verbal picture for the thoughts behind the creation of this painting.

"Located at the base of the McClure Pass and the Paonia Dam, the “ranch” had several cabins, a small grocery store and gas pump, a large meadow and a stream called the North Fork of the Gunnison River. It was also along the dirt road that led to the Kebler Pass which if traveled in the summer would take you to Crested Butte; in the winter, it was totally closed.


It was a great place to go fishing for native browns and see beaver actively working their dams. I learned to fly fish here and loved to sneak upon an inviting ripple or an overhanging branch to challenge a cutthroat or brown. Deer and elk were daily visitors and brought their babies with them to feed in the tender grass of the meadows. There coyote could be heard at night howling and calling to each other feasting on the scent of a fresh kill. On the rocky hill above the ranch herds of elk could be seen bedding down and at night, if you took a spot light and shined it there, their numerous golden eyes glowed in the dark.

Crystal Meadows was adjacent to the Medicine Bow National Forest. There were several narrow rickety wooden bridges used to get from one place to another on the single lane dirt road. I rode my horse across the bridges and were sometimes a challenge but with persistence and patience with the horse I'd get across quickly. If anyone has ever traveled into the back country of the wilderness areas in Colorado, you know how treacherous those mountain roads can be.

I don't know if this place is still open; it was sold several times and I haven't found any recent information on it. If you ever get a chance, visit this part of Colorado; it's absolutelyl God's Country." Linda Young

(Editor's note:  This painting and blog was originally titled Crystal Meadows Ranch; however, through research of old letters written to my Mother, I discovered I misnamed this Ranch painting.  It is correctly called The Glendevy Lodge and is no longer open to the public and is owned privately.  Too bad though, it would be a great place to take a vacation during the summer months if it were otherwise. ..and as memories go, some memories fade and others are improved upon.  This painting has more than one "place" in it; it is a collection of many years in different places I lived.  The story written about it, may be called fiction)


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OBX Overtures Impressionistic Watercolor OBX Seascape at Sunset by Pennsylvania Daily Painter Bertie Brown

OBX Overtures

original watercolor seascape at sunset: 11"w x 7"h

A Mid-Summer Romance

Time to relax

Look forward, think back...

Jasmine and Honeysuckle

Scents of seduction

Flirty Fireflies wink

Quick bursts of combustion

Warm summer nights

A cashmere caress

Sun-draped daylight

Cotton gauze, dazzling white

Ahh, summer’s sun-dance

My summer romance....

BB’10

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Featured tured

Featured Artist for July for

Wildlife Artists Netlink

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They feature my Watercolor Painting of a Pumpkinseed Sunfish.

Thom Glace Watercolors

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Codori Farm, Gettysburg by Lyn O'Neal

Codori Farm, Gettysburg

oil on board

11 x 14 inches

Last week was the Gettysburg Festival and the Plein Air Paint Out. My favorite event of the year. This painting is of the Codori Farm which is located on the historic battlefields. There is no way to adequately describe the quite serenity and overwhelming peace that I feel while painting on the vast open fields of Gettysburg. It is breezy and scenic in every direction. The historical significance is weighty. The tranquility of this scene is what I hoped to capture in this painting. Though my mind knows the "roughness" of events that occurred on this very field, my spirit saw rest and quite.

DOWNTOWN ANNAPOLIS, READY FOR THE 4TH By Cecelia Lyden

acrylic on canvas

9x12

Gallerie 13

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It's always fun to visit downtown Annapolis. The flags were everywhere. They looked beautiful, blowing in the breeze. The tower of St. Anne's Parrish was silhouetted against the hazy summer sky. Even though it is almost always crowded, the shops, restaurants and view are worth the hassle. This day we found a parking space right in front of the shops.

'Study of a Redfish' by Thom Glace

Transparent Watercolor on Crescent Mat Board

Image Size: 9" x 4.5". Matted Size: 14" x 11".

A Redfish or Red Drum is a Salt Water Game Fish 

commonly found in the waters surrounding Florida.

I was asked to paint this for an interest in Florida

that would like to use it on canvas flags on Sport Fishing Boats

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BABY Z by Claire Beadon Carnell 100 Paintings in 100 Days Challenge 'Inspirations from a Back Yard'25/100

'Baby Z"
Oil 5 x 7
Day 25

Day 25

I love to watch things grow; it is so life-affirming.
You take a simple seed, put it in some dirt, give
it a little water and then watch for that
bit of green to peek above the earth's surface.

The baby zucchinis started to pop out about
two weeks ago in my garden. I could't resist painting this one
with the blossom still attached. Had to do it quickly - it
is amazing at how fast they grow - was away for four days
for the Gettysburg Festival Artist Colony, and some
of my 'babies' had grown to the size of baseball bats!


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"Pickett's Division, Southern Virginia" by Michael LeKites

This was another Civil War piece I did a few years back. Sold after exhibiting. Acrylic. Approx. size was 24x36.

OBX Overtures / Com-posers Impressionistic Watercolor Seascape / Impressionistic Watercolor Floral by Pennsylvania Daily Painter Bertie Brown

OBX Overtures

original watercolor seascape/OBX: 7"w x 11"h

Fond Farewells

Farewell

So long, adieu

We're sad to leave this great view

What a treat to be here

With the ocean so near.

So we say our good-byes

To the wild waves and tides.

Though we won’t miss the winds....

That’s a whole ‘nother thing!

BB'10

Com-posers

original impressionistic watercolor floral/sunflowers: 11"w x 14"h

Home Again

Golden sunflowers have welcomed me home.

What a change from blue-green tides

And white sea-foam!

l’ll miss the rumbling surf

Now I’m home on Lancaster County turf.

But I’ll cherish the treasures

Of sun, sand and sea pleasures,

With memories of family time

Which cannot be measured............

BB'10

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a quick aside....one of my "Background Music" drawing works won a first place award in the Mixed Media division at the Harrisburg Art Association's "There's a Song in My Art" show. The show runs from June 25 through July 22.....Yay!

Cross of Hope - Acrylic Textured Nonobjective Abstract by Pennsylvania Daily Painter Pat Koscienski

Cross of Hope

10" x 10"

Acrylic on Canvas

This acrylic 10" x 10" painting was done using acrylic sculpting medium for a thick, textured surface. Sculpting of the medium was done prior to the application of the paint. I sculpted wet clay for several years, and this painting was a combination of my 2 favorites....sculpting & painting. If you have any questions, or wish to purchase, contact Pat at patsfineart@hotmail.com If you wish to view more of my works, both abstract and representational, please visit my website and blogspot at:

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MYSTERY BOAT By Cecelia Lyden

acrylic on stretched canvas

9x12

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I recently returned from a visit with my daughter and her family. They live in Annapolis on The Bay right where the South River empties into the Chesapeake. I set up my painting gear on the deck in the early morning. The sky was soft with beautiful pastel coloring. There was a slight breeze and the water was a little choppy. In my view was a 2 mast yacht, which my son-in-law claims just appeared one morning and has been sitting there for a year. He said no one has boarded it or even approached it. It was still there when I left.

'Study of a Spangled Skimmer, Blue Dasher & Golden Winged Skimmer' by Thom Glace

Transparent Watercolor on Crescent Mat Board

Image Size: 16.5" x 4.5". Matted Size: 20" x 8".

Commissioned for a customer in Delaware.

Giclee Prints are available through my galleries.

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Vanishing Point by Jack Paluh

Oil on Canvas ~ 12 x 16 Inches

Local Carlisle emerging artist accepted into Mt. Gretna Outdoor Art Show

I just received notification I was accepted into the Emerging Artist's area of the 35th Annual Chautauqua Mount Gretna Outdoor Art Show scheduled for August 21 and 22, 2010.


I'm so pleased and honored to have been selected.

Thank you Mt. Gretna Art Association.



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Pepper Polka Watercolor Still Life with Vegetables by Pennsylvania Daily Painter Bertie Brown

Pepper Polka

original watercolor still life with vegetables

Pepper Patter

Peppers here, peppers there

Peppers poppin’ everywhere

Some are yellow

Some serene green

All are mellow

Laid back fellows

Let’s not stop

With that mild lot

Let’s go for HOT

And that means RED

The big red bell?

Well, probably not

But you can tell

That small hot shot

Is packin’ heat

That’s tough to beat!

BB'10

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"View from Steven's Knoll" by Dianne Lorden

Pastel, 9" x 12"

Here is one of my au plein air pieces from this week's visit to the Gettysburg National Military Park. It will be on display, and for sale (price not yet set), at our show on Sunday at the Historic Gettysburg Railroad Station, Carlisle St., from 1-3 p.m.

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A Few 2010 G'berg Fringe Festival Scenes

Amy Lindenberger and Glenn Souders at work near Sachs Covered Bridge, on Monday; Dianne Lorden (me!) painting from Steven's Knoll, on Wednesday; and one of a number of shots I took of our current exhibit at the Historic Gettysburg Railroad Station, where we will be displaying our new creations on Sunday, beginning at 1 p.m.

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Untitled by Michael LeKites

I consider this more a study and is still a work in progress, although I am nearly finished. I am now at the stage where I will set it aside for a few weeks until I figure out what it needs before I consider it done.
The background will be cleaned up a bit more and a few things will be refined. Some of the branches need moved around. Not quite happy with what is going on there but, as I said, this is more of a study with colors. I also enjoy ever so slightly "magical" landscapes. I am attempting to work loosely with the background. The rock is real, but the colors are imaginative. Place is somewhere deep in the Allegheny Mountains. I say somewhere because I know I will never find that spot again.
Acrylic 18x24.

'Study of a Bleached Skimmer & a Hyacinth Glider' by Thom Glace

Transparent Watercolor on Crescent Mat Board

Image Size: 6.5" x 4.5". Matted Size: 10" x 8".

Note: Non-Professional Photograph.

Painted at a Live Demo during

Music & Art with the Wolves

in Lititz, PA. During a fundraising event for

Wolf Sanctuary of PA

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pastel painting Mary's Garden #4 by Joe Kluck

Mary's Garden pastel size is 16 x 22.

"Low Tide " by Debra Tritt-Kreiger

"Low Tide" - Watercolor 8.5x11.5 on Arches 140lb paper

I have been working out of my comfort zone. (Comforts of an air conditioned studio) This is a painting I did Plein Air in Cape Cod along the Bass River. The tide was coming up to us as we painted and we got out of there just in time!

"Spring, Dark to Light 4" pastel on paper by Jack Bingham, Lititz, PA

"Spring, Dark to Light 4", is a framed, large format pastel on white Canson pastel paper with an approximate image size of 17½" x 23" and an approximate frame size of 28" x 33½.

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Thanks for viewing,

Jack Bingham, Lititz, PA

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"Amy & Haley" Colored Pencil by Charlotte Yealey

9x12
Colored Pencil
This is a portrait of my oldest daughter and granddaughter. I have been busy doing birthday portraits and birds but now I can move on to more serious art. Let me know if you want a portrait done of your loved one. To see more go to
www.charlotteswebart.com

Live Demo at PA Fly Fishing Heritage Day

I had one of the most enjoyable live demos

at PA Fly Fishing Heritage Day on Saturday, June 19

held at Allenberry Resort. I even made a video clip 

on Penn.Live with Outdoors writer Marcus Schneck.

The subject I painted was a trout- of course!

A Greenback Cutthroat Trout. It is a sister species of 

the Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout I did at a live demo 

during Foundry Day in Boiling Springs earlier this month.

I am definitely going back to this venue next year-

it is the perfect audience for a fish painter!

'Study of a Greenback Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarki stomias)'

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Winter Shadows, 30 x 40, oil on linen, by Ron Donoughe

How about a winter painting post for this second day of summer? This painting, which was in the Paint & Pixels exhibition at The Museum at Indiana University of PA, was recently selected by the museum board for their permanent collection. It is a good example of alla prima (done all at once) painting. It was done this past February in Indiana County. I started it mid-morning and worked on it until mid-afternoon. During that time the shadows shifted a lot so I had to decide at some point where they needed to live. I liked the idea of having to visually "step over" the near shadows to get to the thick tree and the deep forest in the background. The sun was so brilliant that I had a terrible headache by the time I finished. The entire painting process took about five continuous hours and that included an 8 x 10 inch study done first. No further work was done to it in my studio.

"Waterway with Lilies" by Tatiana Myers

"Waterway with Lilies" by Tatiana Myers
12 x 12". Pastel on Ampersand Pastel Board.

My latest painting of Wildwood park, Harrisburg, PA. Finally I got really lucky and managed to catch those lilies in full bloom! It was a real treat, what makes me very proud and happy. I literally had to hung on the fence with my camera to get a reference shots I wanted... Out of this world beautiful. I did this work in 12x12", but seriously thinking about painting it bigger sometime.

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Philadelphia Brick Study #2 ~ Andy Smith, watercolor

4"x 6" Watercolor ~ SOLD
This little painting is full of detail.
It is from Independence Mall in Philadelphia.

Loved the French colors! This sold while I was
painting it at the show. I did not even have time
to think of a title! But it went to a very good home!

My Website: www.andysmithartist.com

Three Bags Full by Jack Paluh

Three Bags Full 14x23 Oil on Canvas

Veggie Tails Watercolor Still Life with Vegetables by Pennsylvania Painter Bertie Brown

Veggie Tails

original watercolor still life with vegetables: 8"w x 9"h

A Vegetable Tail

Is the tip of a root

That thrived as it grew

Hidden from view

Though some roots are inedible

Others taste incredible...

From the stem to the tail

A few never fail

To brighten my plate

With flavor so great!

(I’m excluding kale

But that’s another tale)

BB’10

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MILKWEED by Claire Beadon Carnell 100 Paintings in 100 Days Challenge 'Inspirations from a Back Yard'24/100

'Milkweed'
Oil 5 x 7
24/100

Day 24

Such a humble flower, yet it feeds the butterflies
with the nectar from these beautiful blooms, and then
in the fall develops unique pods that dry and
eventually split open so that the beautiful gossamer
seed wings inside can fly out into the world.

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First 2010 Plein Air Painting, at the Round Barn on June 18 with the Plein Air Painters' Group, Gettysburg Festival

It's been so long since I've posted. Since I have a gallery in Gettysburg, and summer is our busiest time, and the Gettysburg Festival is in full swing, things have just been a little busy. But I see Claire Carnell posted pictures of me painting at the Round Barn this past Friday, so I thought I'd take a minute to prove that I actually created something. Something looks odd to me about this photo, now that I see it online; I need to go back and look at the painting to see if it really is lacking so much texture in the lower left corner. If it is, I'll be sure and add some. Otherwise, I'm fairly pleased with it. I tend to like to depict little "cropped" views of things, so the composition suits me. I guess it goes without saying, but this is the cupola from the Round Barn.

Blue Ribbon! (Dianne Lorden)

SOLD - $85.00

"Old 'Yeller" took first place at the annual HGAC Barn Art show yesterday, during this Fringe Fest event of the Gettysburg Festival. And, the painting sold at the show. Yay!

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Gettysburg Festival

This past weekend I had the high honor and privilege to be able to exhibit in Gettysburg at the Brafferton Inn with the great historical artist Keith Rocco. His works currently hang in every major historical art collection in the nation as well as many abroad. It was both inspiring and a wonderful educational opportunity to be able to talk with him and view his work. The former White House Chef Walter Sheib helped to coordinate the event.


Brian Hodges, the Innkeeper, is on the left. Artist Keith Rocco and then myself. If you're ever planning a visit to the area, be sure to stop by the Brafferton Inn. It's a beautiful and historical Inn cared for by a wonderful family who will truly make you feel at home!

A CORNER OF THE PATIO By Cecelia Lyden

acrylic on canvas

8x10

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We have breakfast every morning on our screened porch. This corner of the patio, with its variety of potted plants has been begging me to paint it. This morning I did.

THE ROUND BARN by Claire Beadon Carnell Day 01 Painting Gettysburg Festival Plein Air Paint Out

'The Round Barn'

Oil on linen panel

9 x 12

Here is my painting from the first day of the

Gettysburg Festival Plein Air Paint Out.

The Round Barn is a rare and historical round

barn located in Biglerville, PA (just outside of

Gettysburg). Every vantage point of this

incredible barn is terrific, but when I walked

around to see where I would want to paint, this

is the view that really grabbed me.

I thought it really showed off some of the

unusual architecture that makes this barn

so unique.

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Day 1 of the Gettysburg Festival

Amy Lindenberger

The View From Mary Beth Brath's Easel

Claire Carnell

Many thanks to the owners of the Historic Round Barn in Biglerville PA. A total of 10 artists attended day 1 of the Gettysburg Fringe Festival Paint Out.

DPP Members attend Gettysburg Festival Plein Air Event

Today the 2010 Gettysburg Festival started, and
the group of plein air painters congregated at the
historical Round Barn to begin painting. Looks like
some great paintings are in the works!
Four of the people painting today are members of the
Daily Painters of Pennsylvania blog - Mary Beth
Brath, Amy Lindenberger, Susan Gray, and myself.


This is the view of the barn I was beginning to paint.
I really liked the peek-through under the overpass
from the Round Barn to the barn to its right. The
light was beautiful.


Below are some of the participants from today's
painting session.


Mary Beth Brath and Pat Keough


Amy Lindenberger


Anne Finucane

Sue Gray

Deb Richardson