For Sale & Abandonned

On Wednesday we painted at Collins Bay Marina. What a very hot and sunny day. I found a spot that had thick shade and a light breeze. There before me was this sad looking yacht, abandoned and as you can see, for sale. It was love at first sight and since I did not know how to sail, I painted it. 

                    

Christ Church, Cataraqui

                                     

 This was our second paint out location, The National Historic Site: Cataraqui Cemetery. What a beautiful historic site in our city of Kingston. Our first Prime Minister, who had his legal practise in Kingston, is buried here. Also there are many military graves and some very,very historic graves from the earliest days of our city. The historic church in the cemetery is Christ Church, which I chose to paint. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the day.

A Marina Store

                                         

                                      

Friends are traveling north, in their boat, from Florida, up the inter coastal waterway, to New York City, then canals north to the St Lawrence River and Montreal. They are traveling on their boat, a cruiser, for a year. This photo was contained on their blog, about their travels, around the New Jersey shore coastline. I only painted the small marina store and did not keep the rest of the marina in the painting. It was an interesting experiment on a 16x20 canvas.

Church of the Good Thief

It has been quite a while since my last post and I have busy....painting, scraping it off, painting another...wiping it off..nothing came out right. Finally today, my first day plein air with my regularly scheduled paint out group. I created this. This church is in Portsmouth Village, in the city of Kingston. The weather was not great, but once the fog started to lift we found the parking lot that gave us this view of the church. Since it was Canada Day all the government workers who usually park here were on a holiday, so the parking lot was free of cars. It ended with eating lunch at Timmy's together and discussing our efforts. What a wonderful way to end out first plein air session.