Day 2 - Sea Island Painting.

Oh wow!  The weather and scenery here is breath-taking.  Just beautiful!   Today Mary O and I spent the day outdoors.  First we drove to St. Simon's Island and set up for plein air painting in a small alley facing a large oak tree.  We wanted to paint the oak tree -with the Spanish moss hanging down from it.  However, the shadows in front of the tree were really interesting.  The alley was criss-crossed by all the shadows from the three branches.  It was really pretty.

Here is the beginning of my painting. 

I've GOT to remember to take a photo of the painting with what I'm painting from in the background. I keep forgetting to do that - to capture both in one photograph.

Here’s my semi-finished painting.  I’m going to talk to Mary O about it tomorrow.  I may add a person or two walking along the alley.

Later we went into the Village again, and I saw this SSI (St. Simon’s Island) Rocks display.  Sure wish I’d brought several of my painted rocks.  There were only those two small unpainted rocks in the container.

We considered painting the lighthouse but neither of us were particularly excited about the idea - especially since there weren't any shady places for our set up.

Then we went back to Epworth By The Sea.  I wanted to paint that pretty white church.  I took several photos and at first couldn't figure out what that was at the top of the steeple.  It was Spanish Moss hanging down from a tree near me.  Ha ha!  It looks like there's an antenna sticking up past the steeple.

Mary O finished her sketch of the church, but I just couldn't get the proportions right.  So I'm going to work on that before we paint tomorrow.  Then tomorrow we will go back to Epworth By The Sea to finish the church paintings.