Plein air painters do portraits!

Nationally esteemed portrait painter Leslie DeMille was in Minneapolis April 4-10 to teach a portrait painting workshop.  Les was informative and patient with us all! The skills we learned will improve all our paintings, whether landscapes or portraits. 

Michelle, Lisa, and Cheryl with Les DeMille.

Cheryl painting in class.

Lisa painting in class.

Cheryl wins award at Elk River National Juried Exhibit

Cheryl was fortunate to receive an Award of Excellence for a piece at the Elk River National Juried Exhibit, selected from over 1000 entries throughout the United States. This large piece was created using a plein air sketch created this fall. The location is a small market near Cathedral Hill in St. Paul.

A fine day to paint outside

Here's Michelle with her outdoor easel. She's usually the photographer and only her easel is in the photos. Thank you, Cheryl!

"Warmer" weather painting outside

Today's paint-out took us to Jay Cooke State Park. The sun was shining and the temperature was in the 20's, above. It is a beautiful park, so many paintings. But we had only the day, so we painted at two spots. 

"Hello" to the snowshoers who stopped by our easels while we were painting!

Out and painting!

I don't know why, but we seem to get together to paint frequently in the winter. Is that because we're in Minnesota? Here the four seasons are "winter is coming, winter, still winter, road construction". We hardly ever paint "road construction", but barns make great subjects in every season!

AZ Gallery Opening Oct 2008

Whew!!! Three galleries in three months!! We moved paintings up and down across the state! 

Crossings Gallery Reception

                              

Nice Show!

Michelle, Cheryl, Lisa

We toted the paintings from northern Minnesota to a more southern town. Crossings Gallery is a fabulous and active gallery in Zumbrota. The paintings again received rave reviews from the viewers attending the opening. 

The exhibit moves next to AZ Gallery , 308 Prince Street, St. Paul, MN 651-224-3757. The exhibit runs September 12-October 5. Reception Friday October 3. Make time to see these beautiful paintings! We'd love to see you at the reception.