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May 6, 2017,  A Celebration of Wildflowers and Art

I love this plein air art event which is organized and hosted by the McHenry County Conservation District at Coral Woods in Marengo IL.  The timing of this event is a great way to begin a new season of plein air painting, with the subtle colors of the spring green just beginning to emerge.  The native wildflowers of the region are subtle but offer a variety of color, shape and textures upon the landscape.  The weather can be challenging this time of year and yesterdays forecast was to be cool and raining until 10 am.  We were very lucky in that the rain ended in the wee hours of the morning and left us with dry weather for the event.  The temperatures were cool and dressing in layers for a 8 hour event is so important.  Even with that, I put on extra layers when I got home because of the chill I had catch from standing outside for that long of a period of time.

I am honored to paint along side my fellow artists.  The art work produced that day was beautiful and unique to each individual.  Receiving a 2nd place award is a humbling and wonderful feeling as well as a great way to validate all of my hard work over the years.  I can not image just how hard it is for a judge to chose from all of the wonderful work that was created by each Artist.