Wildwood Park, Saratoga. Thursday, March 5, 2015

An all-time great Spring day in one of the all-time great Paintsites venues:  the ancient sycamores and a small decidious oak had just leafed out and couldn't have looked more beautiful against the clear blue sky; there was lots of merry, splashing, tumbling, and falling water in the creek --- only the rocks in the stream bed seemed not to care that it was Spring.

For additional information about Wildwood Park go to the official Saratoga website:   http://www.saratoga.ca.us/cityhall/rec/facility_and_park_rentals/parks/wildwood.asp  


Upcoming Paintsites:

• Thursday, March 12, 2015:  Sunnyvale Heritage Orchard, Sunnyvale - apricot trees in bloom.
• Thursday, March 19, 2015:  Kirk-Farrington House, San Jose - tree peonies in full bloom.
• Thursday, March 26, 2015: Still to be determined.   

For complete details, see the SCVWS website or March Newsletter.

We'll start with a tour of the trees in Wildwood Park:  

Leslie's tree

Leslie

Candy's tree

Candy, Helen and Lisha

Elaine's tree

Elaine

Brad's tree

Janice and Brad (photo by Yan)

 
Now we'll move down to the creek where some artists focused on the surly rocks and made them the stars of their paintings:

Iris' painting

Iris

Lisha's painting

Liz's unfinished painting (hat's off to Liz for working in a completely new style)

Liz

Some emphasized the water in the creek -- listen carefully as you view these and you can hear the creek gurgling along  ... 

Doug's 1st painting

Doug's 2nd painting

Doug

Dan's painting

Dan

Dan's painting of rocks in the stream.    This one was actually completed at a later date (Sept,. 2015)

Helen's painting

Dick's painting

Dick (hats off to Dick as well for working in a very different style!)

And some wanted it all!   Balancing the trees, the water, and the rocks was a challenge ....

Susan's painting

Susan

Bonnie's painting

Bonnie (in the hat) and her guest Mary

Melanie's painting

Melanie

Pat's painting

Sylvia's painting

Sylvia

Leslie's sketch

More artists - visit again when their paintings are completed and posted: 

new member Joe

John

Yan

After our morning's brush & pigment workout we were ready for lunch and our critique ... 

Eating lunch .....

still eating ...

... still eating!

Finally, the Critique:

our impromptu display area for most of what we did (photo by Liz)

Brad documenting it all for posterity (photo by Liz)