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| Lynn Feiger painting on her studio deck |
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| Tim Alcock painting wildflowers |
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| Nancy Ricca with her brand new pochade box |
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| Elke painting atop Vail Mountain |
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| Nancy, Tim and Suzanne painting along the Eagle River |
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| Suzanne through a window screen |
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| Suzanne's first experiments with gouache, en plain air |
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| L to R: Nancy Ricca, Sandra, Tim Alcock, Elke McGuire, Suzanne Mills Kramer, and Lynn Feiger |
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| In front of Lynn and Woody's home |
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| Tim's foot and easel in the Betty Ford Alpine Garden |
Last weekend, Art d'Elke and Lynn Feiger hosted my Plein Air painting workshop in Minturn, Colorado. We were blessed with mostly beautiful weather, spectacular scenery, more delicious food than most of us needed, and an unusually intense camaraderie. All of the orange and pink clothing we are wearing in the photos above was pure coincidence, but possibly symbolic of the group spirit. Well, to be scrupulously honest, Tim did run to get a orange jacket from his car when the camera appeared.
We began our immersive experience with a cocktail party and a lecture about the challenges of Plein Air, and the many ways to create space on a two-dimensional surface.
Vail Mountain's challenge proved to be too many tourists. So many people interrupted me with requests to take their group photos that I questioned whether I might look like an"official employee" of Vail. Still, with such a breathtaking view, it was hard to complain.
Painting in the Betty Ford Alpine Garden, unfortunately cut a bit short by a sprinkle of rain, we were accompanied by a live, in person, NY Philharmonic Orchestra. They were rehearsing for a performance at the Vail Music Festival that evening, and played the entire morning just about 75 feet from our painting location.
And I was even lucky enough to come away with a few paintings of my own. I'll show them in one of my next posts.
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