Daily Painter -Making Do

I ended up being Victoria's model.
She painted me while I painted the the "Hikers at Sprague Lake"- Above.

Daily Painter -Tuesday

Tuesday morning we met at Wild Basin entrance to Rocky Mt National Park, took a dirt road a couple of miles to the Finch Lake trail head and hiked less than a half a mile to Copeland Falls. This is a beautiful area and there are two sections to the falls, upper and lower. Starting at the upper falls, Victoria painted away from the sun as it rose and lit the white water. I painted looking downstream as the water disappeared over rocks into the dark forest back lit by the rising sun. It wasn't long before we were joined by fishermen hiking upstream, casting in pools along the way. I would really like to do that.

Daily Painter at Estes Park-Friday

All the Artists were required to turn in their 3 entries to their respective galleries on Friday, by noon. Most of us spent Thursday night, till all hours, signing, framing and generally suffering the consternation of having to choose which 3 to enter.
Friday was beautiful and I snapped a few of the "locals" strolling around town. Elk are everywhere but you really never get used to seeing them in traffic.
Karen LaValley, a painter from from Ohio, who I met last year- we indulged in a bit of shopping and capped the day with dinner outside, by the river at Poppies. Victoria Brooks, from California and Lori Putnam, from Tennessee joined us. All three of these women are wonderful painters and worth looking at. Google them to see their work.