In 2015, I joined the Washington Art Association and took Outdoor Landscape Painting with Edward Devoe.

Follow along with my work in progress! I feel like I've come home. Thirty years ago, I joined but then put it all on hold when I started my family and Treasures and Trash. My art has always been my passion, and now I actually have time to explore it! The landscaping painting class has been an inspiration to me, rekindling my creativity and inspiring me to pursue painting more. 

I've retreated to my studio for the winter, trying to finish the paintings in the solitude of cold winter days. 

A color study for the first class, painted inside on April 17, 2015 at the Washington Art Gallery studio. 

 Steep Rock Mountain looking from Upper Churchill Road in Washington, April 24. A cool, rainy/snowy day and the rest of the class stayed in the studio, but I chose to stay, using my steering wheel as an easel, painting inside the truck!

 The third week, May 1, a cloudy, misty spring day but most of the class showed up to Upper Churchill Road.

The fourth week, May 8, on the hill above Hopkins Vineyard on Lake Waramaug in New Preston, a forbidden peak! The class stayed below at the Vineyard, but I strayed above it on a private road only to be told by a neighbor I could be asked to leave at any moment!

The second painting above Hopkins Vineyard on the fourth week

The fifth week we went to Steep Rock State Park in Washington, May 15, at the old swimming hole.

The sixth week, May 22, we went to Roxbury to Dorothy Diebold Lane, the Good Hill Farm Preserve

The seventh week, May 29, we visited the Tanner Farm, looking from Jack Corner Road

The eighth week, our class met in Bridgewater on Keeler Road

*Still works in progress, will update as finished!