These 3 paintings were painted at the en' plein air workshop I took in the spring. The 2 Mississippi scenes were painted outdoors and the Italian scene was painted from a photo that I took while in Italy last fall.

At this workshop we worked a lot on painting from your own photographs and only had one day to paint outdoors. I do quite a lot of my studio painting from photos I take or from my small plein air paintings. There is no better way to get your true colors than to view it live.

I am scheduled to take another workshop in October from a different artist & am anxiously awaiting new things to learn and apply to my paintings.