This is an hour-long paint condensed into just over a minute. (I’m really not this jumpy!) It was just before sunset, chosen for the low and warm-hued light, which noticeably shifts while I work, requiring me to keep in mind how the best light looked.
#’s 13-14. Loblolly Pines, 9″ x 12″, in oil, available on the Olmsted Plein Air Invitational, Atlanta, 2025, website. (To visit the Olmsted website, please click here.)
#69. Vacant Lot Gold, plein air in oil.
#s 63-67. Pond Leaves, plein air in oil.
#’s 72-75. Begonia clusters. 4″ x 5″ in acrylic.
#30. “Towers Over Eatonton”, painted on location during the Eatonton Plein Air timed Paint Out, First Place. (Please note the interesting shadows cast by the cropped-out frame, warm on the left and cool across the top … contrasting light sources; illustrates the difference a light source makes.)
#. 147 – 148. Scenery for Nazareth, fisherman’s and neighbour’s houses, painted in acrylic, 8′ x 8′.
#133. Pink Caladiums, in acrylic
#132. Reflections in 105 Main Street.
#131. City Hall viewed through a tree strung with origami cranes.
#130. Children playing in the Duluth City Fountain.
#121. Sky II, plein air in oil.
#120. Sky I, plein air in oil.
#117. Building the sea wall II, Plein air in oil.
#116. Building the sea wall. Plein air in oil.
Susan D. Waters: Artist 