Safe Shelter20 x 24 PLEIN AIR PAINTING |
This painting reminds me of what happens to small children...they grow up! If you want to photograph them, to paint from, you better get those photos, NOW...because next year, it won't be the same.
I created this piece a number of years ago...balancing myself on a broken down dock, that was at a great tilt and partly submerged...the grasses on the shore, have since grown taller than I am...and this can no longer be viewed!
All of the plein air paintings in this section were created between 1986 and 1996, during the annual Plein Air Painters of America Show.
In 1985, Denise approached me while at a show in Scottsdale Arizona, asking me to join a group she was putting together. At the time, there was maybe 12 or so of us, but over the years other artists were
invited to join PAPA. Many artists in the U.S., who paint "en plein air," really owe a debt of gratitude to Denise for her great vision, and starting the ball to roll, to help "rediscover" plein
air painting!
This was also accomplished by 10 years of national advertising in 3 to 4
major art publications, which Billups was the sole advertising chairman, setting up all ads in all
publications for those initial 10 years.
Today the membership includes such artists as Ken Auster, Christopher Blossom, Bye
Bitney, Scott Burdick, Gil Dellinger, Gay Faulkenberry, Joseph Paquet, Ray
Roberts, Matt Smith, Kevin Macpherson and Skip Whitcomb, to name a few.
The rest is history.
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