White Springs Paintout Report

Suwannee Valley Plein Air Painters (SVPAP) and the City of White Springs sends a big thank you to the 18 artists from Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Tampa and other places that participated in the White Springs Paintout on Apr 18th. Also, to Plein Air Florida for their promotion, advice and support. Everyone had a great time, the weather was good and we had quite a few artists that sold paintings. The town was very pleased and there are plans to make this an annual event. Next time there will be ample lead time so more artists can plan to attend.
--John Larner

PAPTC Painting Site

This Tuesday and next, May 3 & 10, PAPTC will paint at Heathcote Botanical Gardens in Fort Pierce. The Gardens consist of an assortment of specialty areas including a Japanese Garden, Reflection Garden, Herb Garden, Rainforest Display, Native Plants Garden and a Palm & Cycad Walk. It's a lovely and fun place to paint. They are open 9 to 5 and admission is $6.00.

From downtown Fort Pierce you can go one of two ways: The more scenic route is to go south about 3 miles on Indian River Dr. Turn right (west) onto Savannah Rd. Go about .2 miles. The Garden parking lot is on the right. OR you can go south on US-1 from downtown/Orange Ave area about 2.5 miles through the Virginia Ave intersection. Pass Gardenia Ave, which is the next stoplight. Proceed one more block to Savannah Rd (no stoplight). Look for a Super Video Store on SE corner at Savannah Rd and Heathcote signs. Turn left (east) onto Savannah Rd; go two blocks. The Garden is on the left.

See you there -- Lori

Some of the bromileads and coleus at Heathcote.

Painting the Impressionist Landscape Workshop

June 5,12,19,26
Center Place Fine Arts
Brandon FL

TBPAP member Kerry Vosler will help you understand how to interpret what you are seeing into simple color values, and teach you techniques used by Russian and French masters of Impressionism. This class is en plein air and for adults and mature teens. She will demonstrate frequently and show you how to mix beautiful color. Supply list is available at the center.


Kerry has been a professional working artist for 20 years and is adept in pastel and oil. She studied portrait, figure, and sculpture under great masters such as Daniel Greene, Robert Liberace, Judith Carducci, and Impressionism with Lois Griffel and John Wurderman.


$125 Register at CPFA or call 813.685.8888

Report on Epcot Center Paint Out

L to R

Dorothy Gardiner, Kathy Wobie, Durinda Cheek, Mary Jane Volkmann.

Joe Taylor

Thursday night for dinner.

L to R

Linda Blondheim, Dorothy Gardiner, Stewart Jones, Durinda Cheek

L to R

Joe and Gloria Taylor, Durinda Cheek, Dorothy Gardiner

L to R

Barbara Perrotti, L Diane Johnson, and Durinda Cheek

As you can see we had a swell time at Epcot Center this year. It was wonderful as always. Thousands of visitors, in fact that is the most I have seen in the four years I have been there. Everything, including the weather, was perfection.

Love,

Linda

Tuesday paintouts from the PAPTC

This tuesday April 17th, we will be painting again at Peterson's Grove in Vero Beach. To get to the grove, take route 60 from Vero Beach heading west. Turn north (right) onto 66 (CR-615). Drive about a mile and its there on your left. Park along the animal pens so their customers have a place to park. I will probably get there around 10 am.

Peterson's grove is very cool, they have lots of quaint little sheds, old farm equiptment, interesting plants and animals. Pigs, ducks, chickens, pigeons, etc. Its lots of fun just to walk about. Look forward to seeing you there!

Lori McNamara

From PAF Member Marge Drew

Please take a look at the plein http://www.artworksofmargedrew.com/pages/updates.htm#guest air paintings of Robert Rohrich. This is the direct link to see his work as my guest artist. Robert, a Palm Coast, FL resident is an oil painter, member of PAF, ECPA, and PAASA. He is a very active painter. He also is in a show at Island Fine Art in Crescent Beach (with 2 other artists) The address there is 6279 A1A South; St. Augustine, FL. I would refer you to their website but unfortunately it has not been updated for shows since Nov 2006.. Their webmaster is in a graduate program and extremely busy.
If you would like to send Robert a message about his paintings you will find his direct email link at the end of his background information. I am sure that he would love to hear from you.
I invite any of you who do not presently have a website to be my guest artist. It is free, it is fun and also a great way to learn what kinds of things need to be pulled together if you are thinking of building a website, in addition to being able to share your art on line for a month with your friends, family etc. I do this as a gift.
Marge' Drew

Epcot Center Invitational
Art in The Garden Annual Festival




Selected PAF members will be painting in the World Showcase at Epcot Center on April 20-22 2007. This will be our fourth year at the Garden Festival and we are all very excited to be there. I will post pictures and stories after the event. The following artists will participate in the Epcot plein air event: Dominic Avant- Sarasota, Linda Blondheim- Gainesville, Durinda Cheek- Riggold GA, Charles Dickinson- St Augustine, Cynthia Edmonds-Winter Park, Elisabeth Ferber-Orlando, Dorothy Gardiner- Largo, , L Diane Johnson- Carey NC, Stewart Jones- Winter Park, Linda Pence- Gainesville, Charles Schaefer- St Augustine, Joe Taylor- St Augustine, Mary Jane Volkmann- Gainesville, Kathleen Wobie- Micanopy