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| Manning Road Marsh, Acrylic, 8" x 10" |
Block 30
I am back from my plein air painting trip to Lake Clear in Eganville,
where our group of painters - this time including a photographer -
enjoyed four wonderful days capturing the beauty of the fall
landscape. To learn more about it, please read the first part of my
travelogue.
Friday, October 4, 2019
My last painting trip with the Plein
Air Ensemble was already two and a half years ago. Therefore, I was
excited when I was able to arrange my work schedule to meet the
fellow artists in the beautiful Lake Clear area again.
Hélène, Janis and I enjoyed a very
pleasant drive through the beautiful fall landscape. For lunch, we
stopped at Sandy's Deli Diner, an old-fashioned family restaurant in
Renfrew, that looked like it was a gas station at some point. Inside
were lots of antique signs and toy cars, even an old gas pump. The
restaurant was packed and the food quite good.
After unloading our car, we had to do
some “redecorating” in the cottage. We have a two-bedroom
cottage. Janis and I were supposed to share the room with the bunk
bed. However, there was no way for either of us to climb up the small
ladder and opening into the bed. We decided to switch rooms with Hélène who had the room with two single beds. Unfortunately, the
second bed in the room did not have a mattress cover. Therefore, we
decided to put the cover from the upper bunk bed on the single bed
but were not able to remove it. Instead, we transported the whole
mattress from the upper bunk bed onto one of the single beds. Janis
slept sleep like a princess in her extra high bed during our trips.
Next, we had to figure out whose bed sheets would fit the different
beds. You can imagine that we laughed quite a lot during this
endeavour. Finally finished, we had about an hour and a half of
painting time before the Happy Hour.
We drove around for a while as it was
pretty cold, cloudy and quite windy. The first stop was at a beach
from which the view of Big Mountain was still impressive, but without
sunshine, the shapes looked very flat. In the end, we set up at a
marsh at Manning Road. It was so cold that I was dressed in a winter
coat, hat and gloves. However, from time to time, when the sun came
out, it got very warm. Hopefully, this is a good sign for tomorrow.
Around 4:30 pm, we went to Kathy
Haycock’s studio for the Happy Hour. Kathy lives only minutes from
the Opeongo Mountain Resort. Last weekend, she took part in the
Madawaska Valley Studio Tour, and her studio was busy with people,
both tour visitors as well as the other members of the Plein Air
Ensemble. I am sure almost everyone was green with envy at the sight
of Kathy’s studio. If you are ever in the Eganville area, visit her
studio. It is the perfect place to display her beautiful landscape
paintings. I felt reminded of the Group of Seven. Probably not by
chance, as her father Maurice Haycock painted with A. Y. Jackson for
many decades.
We had our dinner at “The Moose on
the Beach”, the restaurant of the Opeongo Mountain Resort. After a
delicious pumpkin soup with cheese curds, we enjoyed Ceasar chicken
wraps and chocolate cake.
That evening, despite feeling tired, I
finished my felted water lily scene and continued my felted apple
blossom artwork. As I had just received a delivery of different hues
of green wool, I was eager to see the image come together.
The next part of the travelogue will be
published next Friday. Please share my blog with family and friends,
who might be interested in my stories.
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