Saturday - January 17, 2009 - 1:30 P.M.

Capitol Building

We had a great turnout last Friday at the Capitol, even with the short notice!! We had eight painters - or rather eight artists - more like six painters. It was good to see you all out. We're going to return again (and probably again) before the Chestnut deadline of February 25th. There is really quite a variety of subjects to paint up close and the building can be viewed from a long range at several different vantage points. I've been keeping a close watch on the weather and the afternoon looks like it will be better than morning - 40-44 as opposed to 24-37.

Speaking of weather, I've got to mention and congratulate fellow painters - Erin Jones, Kevin Menck and Dawn Whitelaw for painting this morning at Radnor Lake. (I called Erin at 10:30 to check and see if they were really painting and they were - and had been for a couple hours - my thermometer read 11 at the time, so I know it was single digit when they began. That's real dedication to plein air painting. We're proud of you guys.

Here are a couple pictures of other dedicated artists from last week:

Tahlia and I painted on the East side of the building, where there are a number of subjects.

From left to right - Erin painted several small pieces of sculpture at various sites and spent the whole day. Andrea, Shirley and Jean painted the Capitol building from Capitol Blvd.

Hope to see a bunch of you tomorrow afternoon.

Happy Painting!

Bitsy King

Call me if you want to know where we are - 513-0511