Billsboro Winery Plein Air

Billsboro Lavender

6x6 inches, Oil on Board, Plein Air

This is the last painting I created for the 5th Annual Billsboro Winery Plein Air Competition. This is a lot of work for the owners of the winery and I so appreciate their dedication to the arts.

The patch of Lavender in this painting is not really in bloom yet. But I have an artist's licence and took the liberty to suggest it. I've passed this rock more than a few times, telling myself...you've GOT to paint that! So yesterday, at the last possible hour of the event, I did. I love it, but left it there for sale. $ 110.00 with frame. www.billsborowinery.com

And while I'm promoting my Plein Air paintings at Billsboro, let me show you my larger piece below:

Sanctuary View

9x12 Inches, Oil on Board, Plein Air

This painting is the result of much trouble with the police and my dead battery. I was in about 1.5 hours on a dairy scene when out of no-where the Yates County Sheriffs arrive. They tell me that the property owner called them and want me to leave. Oh gee, I thought the shoulder of roads are public domain. Well they ran my plate, my licence and then ran me off!

Shaken up, I went back to the winery to report my unfortunate experience and was referred to this wildlife sanctuary. So I set up to paint, scraped off the prior work and started on this piece. Everything was going well.

I had peace and quiet. I was safe. I basked in the sounds of cows in the distance and birds at the sanctuary and I painted for about 3 hours. Just enough for my battery to drain! Yes I left my headlights on. Thank God the owners of the winery are kind folk and one of them came to jump my car.

I've been using the creative side of my brain so much, that the left side shrunk to the size of a walnut and leaving headlights on proves it. - Brande

Double Take

Indigo Bunting, 4 x 4 inches, Oil on Board Click to Bid I'm fortunate to have a mated pair of Indigo Buntings visiting my bird feeder. I say that because I've had the bird feeder for over 10 years and my first sighting was last week. The male of this species sports stunning ocean blue feathers...some teal in there also. I paint with a very limited palette, so I was challenged to come up with the right mixtures. But it wasn't very long before I realized that mixing the right "Indigo" color wouldn't be enough. So I subdued everything else, to include his cute little beak.

June Daisies & A Bee

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/61715 June Daisies & A Bee 5 x 5 inches, Oil on Board I have daisies in two different flower beds on my property. I also have more than one area with raspberries, both black and red. So for the past few days after supper, I've been outside picking, watering, weeding and cutting. For today's painting, I decided to return to the garden and clip a few very fresh daisies. I've been experimenting with painting bees and decided to add one to this piece. What is left for today is studio cleanup and then order dinner-in from our favorite Italian takeout. My wishes for a blessed weekend go out today. - Brande

Business & Art Law take two

Business & Art Law take two 6 x 6 inches, oil on board http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/brande-arno/business-and-art-law-take-two/77676 Something got into me with respect to my first attempt at painting these two books, That post is just below this one. Everything is the same EXCEPT that I scraped off the painting yesterday because I didn't like the out-come. Someone else did like it and asked about buying it. So I repainted it today. I was going to repaint it anyway.

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