Down by the river

Yesterday was another super abnormally warm day for February and it just happened to be the day of the weekly paint-out by the PAAC ( Plein air artists of Colorado) which I recently joined, so I decided to head out and go painting. It just happened that the meetup place for the week was a place where I often go to paint and is close by so that was pretty handy.

I got there first and no one was around but little by little they trickled in, and by the time I finished up around 14 artists were there. Here is my painting for the morning. River Thicket, 9 x 12.

This spot was just upriver from a new beaver dam. The banks of the river are still piled with flood debris from the catastrophe in the fall of 2013. Mountains are far distant in the background.