Cedar Creek Entrance
12" x 12" oil on canvas
- ready to frame - framing available
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Today's landscape was started on location at Cedar Creek, a gorgeous development west of Kansas City on the way to Lawrence. This is the first of several paintings of Cedar Creek scenery that you'll see. I've been invited to join a group of KC plein air artists to paint these scenes for an art event in mid-September. I'm thrilled to be part of this group! The pressure's on - some great artists were out this past weekend capturing their interpretation of the hills, trees, golf course, waterfalls, bridges - whatever caught their attention. This painting is inspired by (sort of like) the landscaped entrance to the development. Of course I couldn't just paint it like it is! Way too much green right now. The tall grasses really caught my attention. I pretended it was Fall - or I just changed the bushes to the colors I wanted. Who knows what they'll be like in the Fall - maybe still green. That's okay - they're colorful in my paintings and I hope you enjoy the colors. Life's too short to be all green!
Friday I didn't post anything because I was playing with our 3 granddaughters! One lives here and the two from Colorado came for the KC granddaughter's 2nd birthday party. What fun - and what energy! The Colorado girls - 9 year old twins - painted bags with me and their Mom joined in. I told them all my bag painting secrets, and theirs were cuter than mine. Nothing like the creative mind of a kid. Saturday at the birthday party, there were 18 kids below the age of 6!!! A friend said - "this is like controlled chaos." I agreed - but said it wasn't very controlled. Too cute - and TONS of energy! A sure way to end a party for kids is when they all hit nap time and they want to go home.
Tomorrow I'll work on another Cedar Creek painting from photos - and tomorrow evening our painting group heads there again, weather permitting. This will be a "traditional landscape" week. Time to focus.
Here's to a beautiful week!
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