Sunday, August 30, 2009 - 7:30 a.m.
Scottsboro/Bells Bend


Note - this is Sunday this week (NOT Sat.), only because of the nice invitation from Brenda Butka, to paint at her house Sunday morning.

"I’d like to invite all painters to a wet paint party at our house, Sulphur Creek Farm in the Bells Bend/Scottsboro area, on Sunday morning, August 30, starting at 7:30.

Our lily pond (next to the house) is particularly lovely right now and we’d like to share it with you! Our Victoria Amazonica might even favor us with a blossom that morning, and the lotuses have been spectacular as well.

There are two barns and the big organic garden, if lily ponds are not your thing, and, of course, all of Bells Bend just down the road.

Directions:

Go out Briley Parkway (extension of White Bridge Road on west side of town), cross the river, take the exit for Ashland City and turn left (west). At the Lewis Country Store, about 2.5 miles, turn right—we are the second farm on the right. Please park down in the pasture or we’ll have driveway gridlock. We do have bathrooms, water, and all amenities.

Hope to see you there!"

Brenda Butka
254-3525


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Last Saturday, we painted at Hunter's Hill Farm, which is a Land Trust property and is absolutely beautiful ...... filled with subjects to paint. Here are a few:

August 22, 2009, Hunter's Hill Farm, Old Hickory, TN

Property owner and our gracious hostess, Karen Guy.
Otis Goodin, I think first timer for PAN.

Sandra Harris
Patty Elder, watercolorist! First timer!

Jamie (sorry, no last name)!

(Front and back) Also a first timer.

Jean Gauld-Jaeger

Ed Routon, first timer! He found an old truck.

Mary Miller-McNutt

Cheryl Climer

Thalia Kahl

Andrea Jones

And mine, Bitsy King

Hope to see you in Bells Bend on SUNDAY!

(I'll be there, but probably not at 7:30.)

Happy Painting!

Bitsy King

513-0511

Paintout - Thursday - August 27, 2009 - 8:00 a.m.
Cragfont Mansion
Castalian Springs, TN
(615) 452-7070

Sorry to be late passing this on to you .... sounds like a wonderful place for us. Here's your invitation:

All plein air painters are invited to join the folks from Monthaven Art Society to paint at Cragfont Mansion on August 27, 2009 at about 8:00 am or so.
Cragfont's website is down, however you can google Cragfont Mansion, Castalian springs, TN (see below) and get more information. It's a great old place with beautiful grounds. Many interesting views to paint, with something to please the most discriminating taste.

Directions:
From I-40 take Hwy 109 North to Gallatin and go southeast on Hwy 25, approximately 5 miles, turn Left on Cragfont Rd to end.

We hope you can join us for a fun day of plein air painting. Bring your lunch if you can paint that long. Bathrooms are available, unlike some places in Europe, there is no charge. :-)

Have a great day!

Mary Miller-McNutt
VP/Program Chair
Monthaven Art Society
Cell: 615-417-3713 in case you need help to find the place
I plan on arriving at 8.

Check these out: http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/homework/historicsites/cragfont.html http://www.johnnorrisbrown.com/paranormal-tn/cragfont/index.htm http://www.cragfont.com/history.html

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Thanks to The Chestnut Group, we painted at a wonderful site Saturday, Hunter's Hill Farm. (We're ready to return, anytime!)

Happy Painting!

Bitsy King

Saturday - August 22, 2009 - 9:00 a.m.
Hunter's Hill Farm
4049 Saundersville Road
Old Hickory, TN
(Near the Hermitage)



The Chestnut Group just announced they will be painting here tomorrow and are graciously welcoming us to join them. Please note this is 9:00 a.m. - not our normal time.

The following invitation came from Jean Guald-Jaeger - her cell is 476-2676.

We can arrive anytime after 9:00 AM. There are multiple barns, fields, vistas, lake, large turn of the century farmhouse, cows, other out buildings. Karen Guy is the owner. She said that the gate at the end of the lane may be shut, but not locked, for earlybirds. If it is shut, there is a cotterpin holding it closed. Remove the pin, open the gate, place the pin back where it was and leave the gate open for others. All other gates on the farm must be closed if you drive into a field. She says we can use the bathroom in the house. Bring water and lunch if you want to.

Directions:

These are REVISED a little from the earlier Chestnut email that went out. (If you received one from them, you will probably get these directions from the Chestnut Group a little later.)

At exit 221A the exit ramp puts you onto Old Hickory Blvd heading toward The Hermitage. In about 2.5 miles you will turn right onto Lebanon Pike. In 1.4 miles you will turn left onto Shute Lane. In 0.8 miles you will turn right onto Saundersville Rd. (not Saundersville Ferry Rd.). In 0.2 miles you will see a farm lane to the left leading into Hunter's Hill Farm. There is a small sign indicating the name of the farm but it is not easy to see. If you pass their farm lane you will come to the intersection of Saundersville Rd. and Saundersville Ferry Rd. to the left and Andrew Jackson Pkwy to the right. Turn around and go back a short distance. The farm lane is the last left turn on Saundersville Rd. before you come to the intersection.

Should be a beautiful day tomorrow. Hope to see you at the farm.

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Here are some pictures from Ellington Agricultural Center - August 8, 2009.

My (unfinished) painting of the creek.

Cal's painting of a cabin.

Mary and Cal, in conversation outside the garden.

Thalia, using chroma on the stream.

Cheryl, lost in thought.

Happy Painting!
Bitsy King
513-0511

Paintout - Wednesday - August 12, 2009
Nashville Shores Marina
(previously Hermitage Landing)

5:00ish p.m. - ??? - (Sunset 7:41 today)

We had such a good time painting in the evening a few weeks ago, so we'll try it again. The marina should be a good spot to see the sun set, and with the 30% chance of T-showers tomorrow, I'm hoping for some clouds to make it interesting. They would not let us paint there on Saturdays, but said any time during the week would be fine.

Directions:
Take I-40 East to Exit 219 (Stewarts Ferry Pike) - Go Right
Turn Left at light on Bell Road (go over the dam)
Turn Right (first right after the dam parking lot) into the Marina at Nashville Shores. (You will see signs that say "private" - pay no attention - it just means we cannot go out on the docks.)

Happy Painting.
Bitsy King
Call if you can't find us - 513-0511

Saturday - August 8, 2009 - 8 a.m.
Ellington Agricultural Center
440 Hogan Road
Nashville, TN 37220
(615) 837-5103



Once a private estate, the 207 acre Ellington Agricultural Center is now headquarters for the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, TWRA, and is a branch location for various agencies. Located 10 miles south of downtown Nashville, the Center is the heart of the state's agricultural interests.

There are two maps here - one TO THE CENTER and one OF THE CENTER. If you can, print the Center. It was suggested that we meet at the Stables, as they are centrally located and have parking. Number 9 is The Show Barn which is the Stables.

http://www.tennessee.gov/agriculture/general/eac.directions.html

Andrea Jones suggested this site and has this to say about it ... "I have painted there on several occasions. There are stables (the mounted police stable their horses there), gardens, wooded pastures, a pioneer village, a large historic home with wonderful arched path, a creekside path (easy access to the creek), and ,I think they are making a marsh area. There are also ugly office buildings, but they are easy to ignore.

(We were thinking that the creek would be good for Sat., as it's supposed to be pretty hot.)

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We had so many people at Harlinsdale last week that I lost count

and they were so stretched out out all over the place.

Diana Diaz was there again and I forgot to get her picture, again.

August 1, 2009, Harlinsdale Farm, Franklin, TN

Brenda Long really captured

these trees in watercolor.... this is a keeper.

And, look who showed up to paint!
This was a first PAN paintout for Jason Saunders.

Nobody can match Jason's silos.

Portrait artist, Mary Flora, shows off her 'first' plein-air.

Andrea Jones is cooking up something.

Dawn, in between paintings.

Poor Jim Frazier, can't paint for awhile.

Kevin Menck's first of the day -

in a Jason Jackson "Panel Roo"
check out - panelroo@yahoo.com

Here are two sketches by Cal Shiver. These are

great examples of "massing" and "simplification".
Beautiful, Cal.

And, one by Bitsy King

We're going to miss our friends who are going North, bu hope to see the rest of you at Ellington!

Happy Painting, Everywhere!

Bitsy King

Call if you can't find us - 513-0511