A Cozy Porch in Westport

I just was not pleased with the previous painting of this porch. I thought I could do a better job of capturing the house and the comfy porch that it would be nice to sit on. I have never redone a painting, I don't think, and I'm glad I did this time.  What do you think? This was painted on an 11x14 board.

                            

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A Porch in Westport

We love driving to Westport for the day. There are so many wonderful, unique shops there and we both enjoy browsing through the stores and checking out the waterfront. We always find a cozy, pleasant cafe to have a nice lunch and we usually end the day with an ice cream cone. Delicious!  When we were walking back to the car, we passed a unique, restored old home which was a B and B. I think it was called the Porch. I loved the wrap around verandah with its chair to relax in. Here it is on an 11x14 board.

                             

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A Portsmouth St.

This oil on a 11x14 board seemed to come together very easily. It was a scene from a plein air session in 2007 when our group was spending the day in Portsmouth Village. I found photos from our very first plein air session in2006. Ten years ago. This year we will travel a little further a field and try some provincial parks in the area. I am looking forward to it already.

                                            

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Log Cabin the woods

Last Tuesday, April fifth, there was a restlessness in our art group; most wandered around chatting, others, like myself, chatted and walked and paused and chatted some more and generally avoided my art easel. I blame this on the change of seasons. There is a different feeling in the air, a freshness, a waiting. Spring will soon be here. So we are unable to settle down to our art. It  is a changing time and since our art depicts the season we are in, there is a feeling of needing to change. Let me explain. In winter, most paint seasonal snow scenes. In autumn we paint using different colours on our palette, as the trees change. In this, in-between time, before spring is really here, we can't settle on what to paint. We are reluctant to use vibrant greens since there are still no leaves on the trees. We really don't want to paint the snow scenes we have been doing all winter, and so.......we wander, we chat, until motivation or creativity hits, and we are ready to paint again. I chose a photo I had been keeping for a while, and since I have been in an artistic slump lately, I started. I finished this one, on an 11x14 board, at home. It is not one of my better pieces but it does reflect the slump and, maybe,  the restlessness, that many of us were  feeling.

                          

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