Latest Blog Posts for Joan Vienot

• Plein Air Painting in the Wind
  on Sep 25, 2014 in Landscape Plein Air Choctawhatchee Bay Gulf Islands National Seashore Okaloosa Island
  15 mph winds brought in low humidity resulting in crystal clear views for the weekly Emerald Coast Plein Air Painters session yesterday. Wind and painting are an unpredictable combination. I’ve seen it happen, a painter’s masterpiece su...
• Plein Air Painting What You Can When You Can
  on Sep 10, 2014 in Landscape Plein Air FL Freeport green light Marse Landing painting plein air sketch values
  So often I pass a scene that begs to be painted, while on my way to some other engagement I am obligated to or have committed to. And then other times, when I have my paints and the time, the setting doesn’t seem right or the light is wrong, so...
• Healing With Art, An Exhibit At Sacred Heart Hospital
  on Sep 5, 2014 in Landscape A+Art Arts in Medicine Cultural Arts Alliance exhibit Healing With Art Sacred Heart Hospital show
  Two of my 8×10 plein air oil paintings been selected to be in “Healing with Art”, an exhibit sponsored by the Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County in partnership with Sacred Heart Hospital’s Arts in Medicine program. The exhibit w...
• Plein Air Painting at Eden Gardens State Park
  on Aug 14, 2014 in Landscape Plein Air
  It was a breath of fresh air, literally and figuratively, to get outdoors and paint again.  I’ve been spending most of my free time at my office for my regular job, managing my swimming pool service business, and have not been able to paint f...
• Reconnaissance for Plein Air Painting
  on Aug 3, 2014 in Landscape Photography Plein Air coastal dune lakes light Oyster Lake painting photography plein air values
  Today I loaded my painting backpack into my pickup before daylight, had my coffee, checked the news, and then started driving to my intended painting location when raindrops started falling on my windshield.  I prefer fair-weather painting, and even...
• Plein Air Painting on a Road Trip
  on Jul 29, 2014 in Landscape Plein Air Boggy Bayou State Park color Fred Gannon State Park Grayt Grounds of Monet Monet light Oak Mountain State Park oil painting painting plein air Ponce de Leon State Park
  Last Friday I drove a friend, Leslie, up to Birmingham for her doctor appointment, on the condition that I could paint before we left the next day.  To my pleasant surprise, she wanted to try painting too! I had brought my usual plein air backpac...
• Camp Creek Wetlands Plein Air Painting Video Progression
  on Jul 19, 2014 in Landscape Plein Air Camp Creek Lake coastal dune lake Ginger Jackson Sinton light and shadow oil painting plein air
  My best friend Leslie Kolovich‘s home and studio look out over the beautiful wetlands of Camp Creek Lake, one of the rare coastal dune lakes of Walton County in Northwest Florida.  True coastal dune lakes, which periodically exchange water wi...
• The Sunsets of 30A
  on Jul 15, 2014 in Landscape
  Cindy Moskovitz recently published a beautiful book of photographic images titled Sunsets of 30A, The Magic of Light on the Emerald Coast.  My friend Colleen Duffley designed the layout (Colleen Duffley Productions).  The book is filled with eye-...
• Completion of Plein Air Paintings in the Studio
  on Jul 13, 2014 in Landscape Plein Air artist color composition Laurel Daniel light painting plein air
  I’ve heard of certain art described as being painted “in the style of plein air”, but that description describes nothing, because plein air is not a style.  Some plein air artists paint in a more abstracted style, and some paint ve...
• Reconnaissance in New Orleans
  on Jun 22, 2014 in Landscape Plein Air Cole Pratt Denyce Celentano framing iPhonography Julia Street landscape Magazine Street New Orleans oil painting Phil Sandusky plein air Susan Downing-White
  Having such wonderful hosts made my visit to New Orleans earlier this week so very easy.  My intention was to see how plein air works were displayed in fine galleries.  Bill and Saramae Dalferes welcomed me into their home and Saramae chauffeured...

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