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| Adam & Eve in Tower Grove Park, St. Louis, 07/12/2015, 7" x 9", watercolor on Canson 140 lb cp, Michael Anderson. |
I took my sketching kit to the weekly outing of the
Missouri Plein Air Painters Association in Tower Grove Park. The park is a large swath of urban landscape that once was the private garden of wealthy St. Louisan, Henry Shaw. It includes several ponds, some planted with lotus and waterlilies. After completing a couple of ink sketches I launched into the watercolor study above. A passerby stopping to look at each of the painters works in progress commented that my page looked like the Garden of Eden and said "you even have Adam & Eve!" One of my MOPAPA friends responded "That is your title." And so it is. Perfect for a Sunday morning in this earthly paradise.
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| Lotus plants, Precise V7 roller ball pen, Faber Castell Artist Pens |
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| Plein air painters, Precise V7 roller ball pen, Faber Castell Artist Pens |
These are wonderful, Michael!
ReplyDeleteThank you Kate! Hope all is well, m
DeleteThe colored one captures beautifully summer dappled light and green beautifully.
ReplyDeleteThank you Marcia. Along with my plien air painter friends I sometimes grumble about the "tyranny of green" in summer. It helps to keep a couple of different greens in the paint box. Sap green, Olive green & hookers green mixed with Winsor Blue, Quinacridone Gold, etc are the watercolors of summer in the Midwest.
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