Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum Park, San Jose Thursday, August 10, 2017

There are so many interesting things to paint at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum Park. The Egyptian Museum is architecturally inspired by the Temple of Amon at Karnak in Egypt and houses the largest collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts on display in Western North America. The planetarium is of Moorish design to honor the important contribution of Arab astronomers.  The Peace Garden is authentic to the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt.  The garden contains so many fountains, statues, flowers, and trees that we could return to again and again without running out of things to paint. The day started out cloudy, the sun came out before noon, and the temperature was just warm enough to make for a lovely day.
 
Link to Egyptian Museum
Link to Rosicrucian Park

Iris's painting of planetarium of Moorish design

Toni

Toni's painting of a most unusual tree

Salinda and Dick in the Planetarium garden

Salinda's painting of Pythagoras statue

Dick's painting of Pythagoras statue

Ji-eun and Lisha

Lisha's painting of statue

Cindy at the Egyptian Museum entrance

Cindy's unfinished painting of ram statues and Museum entrance

Grace

Grace's painting of Egyptian Museum

Joy

Joy's painting of fountain

Laurie and Candy

Laurie's painting of fountain and sphinx

Candy's painting of fountain

Candy's sketch of artists and sphinx

Marilyn's painting of fountain

Salinda's painting of the fountain

Dick's detail of a fountain lion

Mary in the Peace Garden with Egyptian museum in the background

Annie with orange dragonfly in the Peace Garden

Annie's painting of water lily in the Peace Garden

Candy's painting of water lily and koi in the Peace Garden

Artists lunch under the "Mother of Shade Trees"

Marilyn showing paintings