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It's official!  I was accepted into the Artist's Colony as part of the Gettysburg Festival this June.  Mark Brockman is the master artist and Claire Beadon Carnell, colorist.  I painted plein air last June with other artists in the plein air paint out; but this year am honored to have been accepted into the Colony.  www.gettysburgfestival.org

In addition prior to the Gettysburg Festival, I will be painting plein air at the Camp Hill Arts Festival along with approximately twenty artists.  First place award is $2,000 which would pay for a lot of watercolor supplies.  Regardless of winning or not, I am looking forward to a few days off from my day job in the salon to painting and boosting that "after retirement" career.  A little luck goes a long way.

Here is a painting I have been working on for many months; but I am only showing a portion of it now.

My husband and I were in Key West at Blue Heaven restaurant and bar and the colors of these bottles and their contents as well as the setting they were in was too much for me to pass up.    It was the first time I had ever tried painting glass and never realized just how much color is found in them.   Painting them was fun; but also intense!

The entire painting will be posted sometime this summer.