Best In Show! Woooooooooo!

Hard to believe it's already been a year since the last Plein Air competition. Well, this year I did even better than last year and won the 'Best Of Show' award! I really didn't expect to win anything at all since the piece I entered was not the one I had intended to do. I started working on a really large (48"X30") oil painting but it was taking too long to dry and I would never have finished it to my liking in time. I set it aside the day before entries were due and decided to do a tiny little watercolor painting just so I would have something to show. I went across the street to the historic cemetery near our house, found a nice composition and completed the painting in about two hours.

Here it is:The dimensions are around 6"x8" and it was the smallest entry in the show. Anyway, I was pretty surprised when it won.

The Plein Air event is a part of the Autumn Dayz Festival and this year Sara helped put together a children's art tent where they could go and paint or draw. Here's a little sketch I did of Sara using some of the materials they had. In this case construction paper, charcoal pencil, crayon and tempera paint.