New watercolors painted of St David's Episcopal Church Radnor, PA

I was accepted into a Juried Art Show at St. David's Art Festival that will be

Presented by Delaware Valley Art League

Opening Reception April 26th 6-9:00 p.m.

Show April 26-May 5

Exhibit Times:

Sats - 10am-4pm
| Suns - 12pm-4pm | Mon-Fri 10am-4pm

I went to the church's historic chapel and collected photos to use to paint some original watercolors for this show and finished three.  This church has a special place in my heart as two of my grandparents are buried here and my Aunt Miriam and Uncle Marshall Monsell worshiped here and are also buried here.  I have been to this chapel for a few memorial services.  So when I was accepted into the show, I wanted to do a few special watercolors.  

Here is one of the two gates you can use to enter the Historic Chapel area of St David's.  There are two others you will find at the show..............I will be at the Opening on Friday evening so stop by and greet me and Sunday Afternoon from noon to 2:30 pm

Winterthur Plein Air

On April 17th, a friend of mine Jim Evans and I went to Winterthur to sketch and paint plein air, which means being out side "in the air"-- painting in front of your subject.  Winterthur is the estate of Henry DuPont that is now a museum with 175 rooms and each one has furniture and everything you could imagine.  Well, instead of painting inside, we rode the tram throughout the grounds to select a place to paint.  We visited the dairy barns, the beef barns, the magnolia and flower gardens.   We selected the barn area.  Back in the 1800's, when they bought 15 farms in this area to form this property, they kept the houses and barns preserving the feel for the farm country.  

So in spite of the cloudy cool weather,  we spent the morning riding the tram to the barn area and sketched a barn property and took numerous photos to paint future paintings.  Then we went back in to warm up with hot coffee and tea , took a tour of some of the rooms in the house, ate lunch and then hopped on the tram to do more painting and sketching.  I finished a watercolor and Jim worked on a colored pencil study.   The sun finally broke through and it warmed up so we ended the day on a high note.  For more information on Winterthur go here--http://www.winterthur.org/

JUST ACCEPTED INTO ST DAVID'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH ART FESTIVAL

I took three watercolors to the DVAL jury for a new show at St David's Episcopal Church.  This will take place April 25th to May 5th.   ALL THREE WERE ACCEPTED INTO THE SHOW That is exciting.  So I can take my portfolio with 15 originals for the show as well.  Here are two of the paintings that were accepted.

Chadd's Ford Elementary School Art Show

March 15th and 16th I will display two racks of my art with several originals and a number of limited edition and gliclee reproductions.  I will be there on Friday evening when they have lots a great food and later on Saturday afternoon.  This is a good show where you can meet the artists and talk directly to them.  
I have donated a framed "Gate of Thanksgiving" reproduction so you can try to buy a chance and support the school.  I will also have my newest original watercolor "Historic homes of Chadds Ford" for you to take home as well as some other brand new originals. I will have all sizes of framed originals  from 5 x 7 to 18 x 32 originals and then framed reproductions from 5 x 7 to 16 x 20.
So come out , look and buy a new painting for your house........it will brighten up your spring and supports the school. 

Watercolor - How I started to paint Historic Homes of Chadds Ford

I thought with my newest show beginning January 30th at the Malvern Retreat Center, I would show you how I began the process of creating this painting. 
First I thought of the many homes in Chester County that are historic that would make a great painting.  I have a number of watercolors of some of these homes, so I decided to create a new panoramic painting with four historic buildings.  

So I gathered my photos first of these buildings..... I have taken these over the past 30 years so there are some differences.  The John Chadd House, Washington and Lafayette's headquarters and the Barns Brinton home.  

Then I spent time sketching each home and finally cut out the homes to make sure they were properly sized, checking out the size of the windows and doors.  Here are the cutouts.

Then after selecting my watercolor paper, I spent hours drawing the homes, painting the background and finally painting each individual building.   So to see the finished painting that is over 30 " long, come to Malvern Retreat Center.