I'm going to Disney World!!!

I will be painting Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Epcot at Walt Disney World in Orlando (March 25-27). I was invited to be part of the Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival. You know how Disney is always doing a show. Well, in the spring they bring in tons of different flowers and they have artists doing plein air paintings as part of the presentation. The cool thing is Disney puts the artists up in one their hotels and gives day passes to the artist and a guest. So . . . if you haven't been to Epcot in a while, (or you have one of those year passes that you haven't used enough) head on out to the England section of Epcot and look me up. We'll have some fish and chip together!

"Lake Ella Sky"

11 x 14 (plein air)

Lake Ella is a great place to paint. This was done on a Saturday morning last year. One thing about Lake Ella is there are always a bunch of people. I'll probably paint there this week to get use to being around people while painting. That's always a challenge. Obviously, Disney World will be a different kind of challenge. But I can usually pull off a flower painting without much struggle. (Knock on wood.) Hope to see you at Epcot.

Thanks for looking.

Beach Fun

5 x 7 (plein air)

Just a sketch from the week at Palm Beach. I also did an 11 x 14 with this same composition. I'm just trying to get it right the first time. Quickly. No 'messing with it'. Put down the brush stoke and leave it alone. You wouldn't believe how much discipline that requires. But actually, one thing that you learn after a lot of practice is that it is possible to wipe out a small section, or a person, or a horizon line, and hit it again with that one stroke that works. There you have it. A secret that took me a long time to learn, and you just got it in one paragraph. If it was only that easy!

Thanks for looking.