Santa Clara Central Park, Thursday, March25, 2021. Week51

Jane, Claudia, Lora, Monique, Marnie, Bobbi, and I met at the Santa Clara Central Park on a moody morning. The park was full of activity -busy birds and tiles. It’s  fun to hear kids on the school playgrounds! ~Alison

Scroll down for this week's photos and artwork posts, details on our plein air safety requirements and upcoming events.   

New: Check out our web site Paintsites Homepage. We updated it to include links to presentations on plein air painting by SCVWS members Dick Zunkel, Uma Kelkar and Edward Rooks. All three links were used as references during the SCVWS Zoom Q&A session on February 28, 2021. 

Paint Site Guidelines

Please check the Paintsites website for details including directions and possible cancellations. To keep our members and guests as safe as possible during the COVID-19 era, we must change how we do things. Some of the paint sites have visitor limits. When this occurs we will post the information in paint site details on the SCVWS website. Participants must wear masks and observe the 6 ft. distancing rule. We no longer take photos of paintings on site. Please take your own photo, crop if needed, and submit  to paintsites@scvws.org 

Blog Submission Guidelines

If you choose not to attend the organized SCVWS plein air events, we invite Paintsites' artists sketching/painting on their own to pick one painting from that week and submit it by Saturday of that week. Here are some guidelines:

• Submit a digital photo of your artwork to paintsites@scvws.org. Cropped photos are preferred.
• Include your name, the date and comments about the site or unique media notes.
• Be creative! Some of your best subjects are in or around your home. You may want to paint from personal photos of your travels.
• Submissions after Saturday midnight will appear in the following week's blog.
• One painting per member per week, please.




Upcoming Paint sites:

 Thursday, April 1 – Villa Montalvo, Saratoga

 Thursday, April 8 –  Daniels Nature Center/ Alpine Pond at Skyline Preserve, RC

 Thursday, April 15 – Nola’s Iris Garden, San Jose

 Saturday, April 17 – WEEKEND PAINT SITE: Cummins Iris Garden, Scotts Valley

 Thursday, April 22 – Rancho Cañada del Oro OSP, Morgan Hill

 Thursday, April 29 - San Jose History Park, San Jose

For more on the these sites go to Paintsites Details




Artwork and Photos from this Week's Paint Site






"Gauging from blooming times in the past years the wisteria
should have been in full bloom. Oh well, I'm glad I bought 
along my artistic license" ~Jane

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  Wisteria by Jane S

  
  

  

  
  

  

  Lora sketching near the pond

  
  

  

  "Keeping company with our web footed friends" ~Alison

  
  

  

  Canada goose by Claudia L

  
  

  

  Bobbi's watercolor sketch the pond at SC Central
  Park

Other Artwork by Paintsites Members

Santa Teresa County Park by Indira

Fishing in Monterey Bay, Santa Cruz by Dick (plein air)

Saratoga and Sunnyvale Heritage Orchards, Week 50 March 7 to 13, 2021

We had eight bundled painters at the Sunnyvale Heritage Orchard on a cool cloudy day. Jane, Tanvi, Claudia, Caroline, Susan BG, Monique, Alison welcomed the return of Lorraine! Photos from the March 7 weekend paintsite are included in this blog. These words were displayed on a sign at the Sunnyvale paintsite: 

No brush can paint the picture

No pen can describe the sight 

That one can be found in April

in the Valley of Heart's Delight

New: Check out our web site Paintsites Homepage. We updated it to include links to presentations on plein air painting by SCVWS members Dick Zunkel, Uma Kelkar and Edward Rooks. All three links were used as references during the SCVWS Zoom Q&A session on February 28, 2021.  

See below, for this week's photos and artwork posts, details on our plein air safety requirements and upcoming events.   

Paint Site Guidelines

Please check the Paintsites website for details including directions and possible cancellations. To keep our members and guests as safe as possible during the COVID-19 era, we must change how we do things. Some of the paint sites have visitor limits. When this occurs we will post the information in paint site details on the SCVWS website. Participants must wear masks and observe the 6 ft. distancing rule. We no longer take photos of paintings on site. Please take your own photo, crop if needed, and submit  to paintsites@scvws.org 

Blog Submission Guidelines

If you choose not to attend the organized SCVWS plein air events, we invite Paintsites' artists sketching/painting on their own to pick one painting from that week and submit it by Saturday of that week. Here are some guidelines:

• Submit a digital photo of your artwork to paintsites@scvws.org. Cropped photos are preferred.
• Include your name, the date and comments about the site or unique media notes.
• Be creative! Some of your best subjects are in or around your home. You may want to paint from personal photos of your travels.
• Submissions after Saturday midnight will appear in the following week's blog.
• One painting per member per week, please.

Upcoming Events

• Thursday March 18, Almaden Quicksilver County Park, San Jose
• Registration is Open for 53rd Annual Show

Artwork and photos from paintsites

Weekend paintsites resumed after a yearlong break. It was fun to ketchup and relish in the mustard with Bobbi, Claudia, Jayne, Helen C, Helen and Alison

The orchard was in bloom on a bright and sunny Sunday at the Saratoga Heritage Orchard

Saratoga Orchard on a bright and sunny day

Claudia

Two Helens

Jayne's painting

Claudia's plein air sketch 

Claudia's sketch completed at home

Lora's studio painting from her plein air sketch

Alison's painting at Saratoga Orchard

Sunnyvale Heritage Orchard paintsite.

Sunnyvale Heritage Orchard under cloudy skies

Tanvi and Claudia at the Murphy House Gardens

Caroline by the garden

Fruit trees beginning to leaf out.

Alison's painting at the Sunnyvale site

Claudia's painting of the small barn at Sunnyvale

Jane S. painting of flowering apricot trees at Sunnyvale

Sue B.G. sketchbook painting at Sunnyvale

Caroline's painting of blooming trees at Sunnyvale

Artwork from members at home or other paintsites.

Indira's painting "Wait for Spring"

"Spirit of the Forties" by Dick, plein air pen and ink with watercolor wash
at San Jose History Park

We were pleased to have submissions from Uma Kelkar painting

 at Wilder Ranch and Santa Cruz

Uma at work, painting large

Santa Cruz and Wilder Ranch collection

Uma's painting from Wilder Ranch

Uma's Santa Cruz painting

Week 49 February 28- March 6, 2021

Nine Painters - Bill, Jane K, Jane S, Jayne, Susan BG, Claudia, Marni, Lora and Alison enjoyed a warm and sunny early spring day at Los Gatos Creek County Park. Birds, foliage and reflections along the creek and percolation ponds provided a variety of subjects ~ Alison

New: Check out our Paintsites Homepage. We updated it to include links to presentations on plein air painting by SCVWS members Dick Zunkel, Uma Kelkar and Edward Rooks. All three links were used as references during the SCVWS Zoom Q&A session on February 28, 2021.  

See below, for this week's photos and artwork posts, details on our plein air safety requirements and upcoming events.   

Paint Site Guidelines

Please check the Paintsites website for details including directions and possible cancellations. To keep our members and guests as safe as possible during the COVID-19 era, we must change how we do things. Some of the paint sites have visitor limits. When this occurs we will post the information in paint site details on the SCVWS website. Participants must wear masks and observe the 6 ft. distancing rule. We no longer take photos of paintings on site. Please take your own photo, crop if needed, and submit  to paintsites@scvws.org 

Blog Submission Guidelines

If you choose not to attend the organized SCVWS plein air events, we invite Paintsites' artists sketching/painting on their own to pick one painting from that week and submit it by Saturday of that week. Here are some guidelines:

• Submit a digital photo of your artwork to paintsites@scvws.org. Cropped photos are preferred.
• Include your name, the date and comments about the site or unique media notes.
• Be creative! Some of your best subjects are in or around your home. You may want to paint from personal photos of your travels.
• Submissions after Saturday midnight will appear in the following week's blog.
• One submission per member per week, please.

Upcoming Events

• Thursday Paint Site, March 11, 2021 - Sunnyvale Heritage Orchard, Sunnyvale
• Registration is Open for 53rd Annual Show

Photos from the Los Gatos Creek Park Paint Site

Los Gatos Creek Park, Campbell

Susan B.G.

Lora

Birds of different feathers flock together!

Lora's watercolor of Canada geese at 
Los Gatos Creek Park 

Jayne's watercolor sketch of reflections on the pond

Reflections on the creek by Claudia 

A panorama of the percolation ponds with rushes
painted by Alison

Susan B.G.'s sketch of the first percolation pond and tree
lined trail in the distance 

Susan B.G.'s closeup of the trail

Other Paintings by Members

"Austrian Farmhouse" by Dick, painted at home from
 a personal photo

"Calero County Park" by Indira, painted plein air 

Toni wasn't able to attend the Los Gatos Creek
Park paint site, but she had a nice morning
painting this Manzanita bush in her front yard
(painted plein air).

Toni's watercolor of a giant lemon tree and shed
 (painted plein air)

"Los Altos Heritage Apricot in Bloom" by Jane S.
(painted plein air)