After a life changing move from Florida to the mountains of Virginia, I was very lucky to find and join a group of plein air artists who meet up on Thursdays at the lovely and awe inspiring Claytor Nature Center. The new director of the center, Jennifer Wills, has invited us to display our paintings in the educational building where they have a taxidermy collection, along with bones, and various and sundry other stuff. I displayed some of my animal paintings and one landscape, as well. Now that it's getting cold here, Jennifer has allowed us to work inside from the taxidermy. What a treat! I'm developing a drawing class to do just that at the center. Here are some of the animals I drew today:
Now I get that some people would be turned off by this, but I'm so excited to be able to really study these animals. I'll upload some of my latest artwork as soon as I get around to photographing them. PS. If anyone knows what the animal on the left is, let me know.
Happy holidays!
