"Rockville Bridge" by Debra Tritt Kreiger

8x10 acrylic on canvas board

This was my first painting of the spring season. I was painting with the SVPAP from Fort Hunter. I was walking in the park looking for a good spot to paint and came upon a gentleman who had just taken a morning walk along the banks of the river. There was a flurry of activity from the seagulls on the river. He said they were feasting on the newly hatched may flies. That was the inspiration for this painting!

THREATENING RAIN By Cecelia Lyden

oil/board

11x14

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When Julie Riker and I started out to paint Tuesday afternoon, the weather was warm and balmy. We changed our original location from the Marysville side of the river to the Fort Hunter side.By the time we travelled to the other side of the River and found a nice view of the bridge, the weather had changed from warm and balmy to overcast, with rain threatening. Luckily it remained balmy and was such a pleasure to sit there, watching and painting the rapidly changing sky. 



Rockville Morning by Julie Riker

8x16 oil on canvas

Several years ago, I met Ralph Hocker at the Mechanicsburg Art Center and he invited me to join his plein air painting group.  It was a small informal group of a handful of artists who met weekly to share their love of painting and the outdoors.  We painted at a boat launch in Marysville and I remember it was a gray cloudy morning, but the sun started peeking around the mountain as we were working.  That day I met several other talented artists...Mary Beth Brath, Jim Henry, Pat Koscienski...this group eventually became the Susquehanna Valley Plein Air Painters.

This little painting will be showing at the Landis House in Newport as part of the Perry County Council of the Art's "Waterways of Central PA" show of plein air work.  The show opens on January 14 and runs through March 4.

If you would like to see more of my work please visit my website http://www.julieriker.com/

"Rockville Bridge-II" by Tatiana Myers.

"Rockville Bridge-II"  © 2009 
8 x 10", Museum series Ampersand Pastel Board, Pastel. 
Framed, True Vue Conservation® glass.

This is my second painting of famous bridge on Susquehanna river, just a few miles away from our home. Rockville bridge is considered perhaps the most long arched stone bridge in the World. One of many, but the most beautiful one on Susquehanna.

 This painting will be a part of Group show at Gallerie 13, starting from January.

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"Susquehanna Sparkle", oil on board, 6 x 8 inches

Painted en plein air, this little study is of the Susquehanna River and the distant Rockville Bridge on a bright sunny day, which made the water sparkle as crystal. This study will be used to paint a larger, studio work, but seeing and painting the scene outside helps so much in remembering the day, the sounds, the movement of the clouds, the trains going by and, of course, that shimmering river.