Afternoon at Johnson Estate by Jane Albin

"Afternoon at Johnson Estate"
9"x12" watercolor en plein air

Plein Air Westfield
We had a delicious lunch at Brazil's in Westfield, NY before heading out to the Johnson Estate Winery for some painting in the vineyard.  (Of course there was tasting before painting.) That is Lake Erie in the background.
Later that day we were treated to wine and cheese at The Art Loft in Chautauqua, NY.  Thank you Bonnie Beyer.  It is a wonderful gallery in a former lumber barn near the Chautauqua Institute.

Sunflower Alley Series Plein Air Watercolor Landscape/Sunflower Field by Pennsylvania Daily Painter Bertie Brown

Sunflower Alley

original plein air watercolor landscape/sunflower field: 15"w x 21"h

Com-Posers Soon Over

bloomin' sunflowers

makin' me happy

till crisp autumn winds

nippy and snappy

cause me to pine

and feel so unhappy

for that best of all times

the season devine

that this painting defines....

summer time and the livin' was fine!

BB'10

Bertie Brown - Lancaster, PA

info at: email

blog: http://watercolorsbybertiebrown.blogspot.com

Sunflower Alley Series Watercolor Landscape/Sunflower Field by Pennsylvania Daily Painter Bertie Brown

Sunflower Alley

original watercolor landscape/sunflowers, fields, barns: 14"w x 11"h

What, Ho!

I gazed down in dismay

Where autumn's portent now lay

The first one I've seen

This fine summer day

A brittle, sculpted shell

Unneeded

That a locust cast away.

I'll try hard not to fear

Those words “Winter's drawing near”

And find solace in hues

Of brown and gold

My sunflowers

So glorious, so bold

Here in this haven

Of sunshine and rest

My own backyard

At its “all dandied and dressed up” best!

BB

Bertie Brown - Lancaster, PA

info at: email

blog: http://watercolorsbybertiebrown.blogspot.com