Summer fun

Summer goes so quickly here on Whidbey. We rush to and fro trying to have fun, paint the beautiful scenes and be involved with festivals.  This leaves out the garden, work and "cooking", I have to work to squeeze those necessary evils into my life.  Actually, I love the garden and it looks so pretty this year, almost overgrown.  This is a good thing because it shades out weeds.  I'll do some sketches later.  Here are some sketches of Chochookam, and local scenes.
I'm not happy with my mini palette lately.  Its too hard to moisten those cakes of paint and it ruins my brush tips.  I may be moving back to the slightly larger palette with the squeezed tubes.  Yes, I do squeeze new paint into those small holes of the WNewton palette, but.... small holes=brush tips don't like it.  Yes, I moisten the whole palette, but it dries out quickly in warm weather.  Maybe I need to join the sketchers more often after our meeting for whine, I mean wine. ;-)  till next time.

Jim Lamb painting from photos.  I scrunched him onto the page, he is a tad taller! 8-)

Slow day working at the gallery, so I sketched Windemere and my little Subaru.

Rainy on and off at Langley harbor, blah colors

Little girl posing for her portrait, while Mom figures out how to work the phone.

Sherryl's birthday at Mary's on First Street.  This is the view from her window (Music for the Eyes)

Choochokam

What a weekend for art!  Our group, Langley Artists Connect, had a huge presence at the U.S. Bank parking lot.
We had artists, like Aaron Copeland, Henry Stinson, Albert Rose, Anne Belov, and more.  We had models in costume from Whidbey Island Center for the Arts.  My favorites were the mother and kids in costume from Oliver.  The art from all the artists was displayed in one large tent, the models were front and center on a podium.  Gordy Edberg and Truman Castle shared a tent right next to me.  Ron Kasprisin came on Sunday and did watercolor demos.  Also, Ann Belov brought her small printing press and created some beautiful prints!  Henry and another gal did their $100 portrait sitting special.
Each person in Langley Artists Connect, (Faye Castle, Truman Castle, Anne Belov, Cary Jurrianns, Albert Rose, Gordy Edberg, & myself), donated a painting or two for a raffle, to help pay for this extravaganza and at 3pm on Sunday we started pulling names and calling the winners.  Cary Jurrianns from Whidbey Island Fine Art Studios was the driving force behind this whole venture, Sandra Logan from Museo, kept us organized.  Thank you Cary and Sandra!  I sold three winning tickets to friends, two of whom only bought one ticket each.  Sometimes just $5. will make you the winner.  We can't wait until next year to help people and art connect!  Here are the sketches I did.

Brooke Sinclair as the Lady in Waiting in 12th Night

Stripes and Sunflowers!  I couldn't resist!

Christina Parker costume from the Bar Scene, Oliver

Sarah Parker, pickpocket and Megan Parker as an orphan in Oliver.