'Golden Summer at Messiah' An Original Plein Air Oil Painting by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Golden Summer at Messiah'
(Messiah College, PA)

© Claire Beadon Carnell

Oil
Plein Air

12 x 16

Thanks to a friend up on Facebook, I was

made aware that there were rolling hills

of sunflowers being grown by Messiah College

in Grantham, PA. My friend and fellow artist

Pat Koscienski and I went there to paint 

yesterday.  The heavy rains we had the previous

week had beaten up the blossoms a bit, but

it still was an amazing sight to behold.

I did use some artistic license with this and had

the sunflowers facing toward me...for some

reason they were all being shy, and their faces 

were pointing away from us, and toward the sun :)

My painting in progress

Pat Koscienski painting further down the hill

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Claire Beadon Carnell

Member of:

Oil Painters of America

Daily Painters of Pennsylvania

Susquehanna Valley Plein Air Painters