Tag: plein air

Painting en plein air on Salt Spring Island

Ahhhh….painting en plein air – there’s nothing like it! This was the second plein air pastel I did over the weekend that I visited Mum and Dad on Salt Spring. (Here’s the first one.) This time we went to the end of Baker Road which overlooks Booth Bay. I walked the beach looking for a

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Joan Eardley (1921-1963)… my newest discovery

While in Sedona at a painting workshop last May, someone mentioned the artist Joan Eardley. I’d never heard of her but today, as I struggled to move forward with my more experimental work, I researched her on the internet and discovered the powerful work of a Scottish painter cut short at age 42 by breast

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