Klenke Garage

What started as a beautiful afternoon for painting soon turned into a storm with high winds and hail!  Set up across the street in a bank parking lot, I sketched my lines with paint and started leisurely laying in color. There was plenty of time before the sunset paint, after all.  As the horizon darkened, I started painting a little quicker.  As the line approached, I suggested to my painting friend to be ready for a  quick take down.  I finished up as the first raindrops were falling, and rushed away from the storm.  Now, we're having a "car party" and waiting out the worst of it!  Painting number 2418 in 2418 days.

Trees of Ellison Bay

Trees of Ellison Bay
Watercolor on paper, 7x10.5
Door County, Wisconsin

Today was such a fun, busy day!  I started the morning with a sunrise paint across the road at Kangaroo Lake.  Next, I headed to Sister Bay to the cherry orchard on Hwy 42, and a wonderful community garden on Beach Rd.  Then, it was off to Fish Creek, where I was able to get in a painting of a beautiful old house right by Clark Park.  After dinner at a fish boil, it was up to the Peninsula State Park to paint the lighthouse at Eagle's Point (I think).  I'm home so late that I can not take photos of my paintings, so, this one is number three of the first day in Door County.  This secluded beach at Ellison Bay, Wisconsin was a real jewel!  We had to drive down a steep road that twisted several times, but this scene on the beach was the reward! Pulling out my watercolors, I first masked this off with Pebeo drawing gum and then put in my dark shadows and background colors.  Once this was dry, I rubbed off the resist and started dropping in some fresh colors onto the white areas.  This painting almost painted itself - which is always a joy!  This painting makes 570 in 570 days - now I had better get to bed - it has been a very long day in this gorgeous little slice if heaven :)