I have been neglecting this Blog.  Mostly because I've been out painting twice a week with some of Northern Florida's best painters.  They are skilled and knowledgeable, as well as being fun loving and supportive.  Add fabulous landscapes, cityscapes, old and historic buildings, and beaches galore, makes this little Heaven a total joy.  But now I have some news to share.

So it is now Spring in Northern Florida.  2019.

April 5th to April 27th.  My Washington, DC, actually they are mostly from Northern Virginia, friends who get together several times a year to recreate the fun and creative energy that is a Monotype Party.  The Arts Club of Washington, in James Monroe's former home, on I Street, NW, DC, is exhibiting what artists do with ink, paint, a solid surface, that rolls through a printing press, with the help of a fabulous lunch and wine.  The prints displayed are extraordinarily beautiful.  Each print has a presence all their own.  There are also 2 Bins with unframed prints from each artist.  The Arts Club is handling all sales. 



April 24th.  Flagler College is inaugurating the L.E.A.D. scholarship program for young men beginning their college education.  The College website will give full information about the scholarship.  But to help raise funds, Artist Martha Ferguson, a Flager graduate, has called on her many friends and colleagues in the Northern Florida art's communities to pull together paintings made specifically for this event.  Paintings of the exterior of the college buildings, such as Markland House. The Prespertierian Memorial Church, which healds several of the early college major events, like my graduation, as well as Mr. Flagler's tome.  As well as interiors of both the Markland House and Ponce Hall.  I did a painting(oil) of a small hidden corner in the Dining Room.  There are also a couple of views from the Solarium roofs.  AND there will be paintings of some of the fabulous cars in the Classic Car Museum, here in St Augustine, Florida.  Martha arranged a one day visit to sketch & photo some of these wonderful cars.  I fell in love with a little blue & silver 1960 Corvette.  This will focus on the heart of the car, the front end, as it dreams of times driving down the Highway at Sunset. 


April 23rd to April 30th.

Without taking a deep breath the St Augustine Art Association's 5th Annual Plein Air Paint Out will begin.  Eight days of Artist's outside and painting in St Augustine's many Historical attractions.  But wait StA offer's more than the Tourist attractions.  There are many small, and historic residences off on the tiny side streets that are in the Southern part of "Old Town."  You can watch the artist, or go to the Art Association's building on Marine St. and check out the "wet room."  The paintings a usually finished, but too wet to frame yet.  In May there will be a month-long Juried exhibition of the very best.  

but I still have to finish the Car.

I'll attach pictures as soon as I can, but life is very busy in the laidback little Southern town.