Category Archives: Plein Air

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Cocktail Hour, Edisto

On a trip to Edisto Beach State Park in October, our plein air group checked in late in the after noon and set up to do some quick paintings before dinner.  I was attracted by the sun […]

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Early Morning Edisto

On a trip to Edisto Beach State Park on the coast of South Carolina in October 2015, our plein air painting group had cabins along the edge of the salt marsh.   The morning was […]

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Morning on Pitt Street

The Old Pitt Street Bridge in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, is an old bridge that has been converted to a park and fishing pier.  I painted this view of the salt marsh from the bridge […]

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Morning in Five Points

The Five Points area of Columbia, South Carolina, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.  The popular commercial village offers restaurants, shops, and nightlife.  It was quiet when the plein air painters set up near […]

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Wine at Soda City

Soda City Farmer’s Market on Main Street is open 9am-1pm on Saturdays.  It’s growing bigger every week.  There’s a variety of farm produce, crafts, yoga, and prepared food.  The About Face plein air group gathered […]

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June Morning

In spite of the heat in South Carolina, I was able to do a plein air painting this week by starting early and working in the shade of my back yard.  These perennials combined with […]

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Quiet Morning in Charleston

On a recent trip to Charleston, SC, I painted with two other artists on a residential street South of Broad on a quiet Sunday morning.   It was a delight to see people walking to […]

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Spring at Sandhill

As I was saying in last week’s post, I often find that things I painted years ago no longer exist. When I went out to Sandhill Research and Education Center recently, I looked for peach […]

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Alwehav

The overcast spring weather in South Carolina brought a dozen painters to the About Face plein air paintout on Saturday.  We had the extraordinary opportunity to paint at an historic plantation called Alwehav (“all we […]

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Caribbean Colors

  Last week my husband and I went on our annual vacation to a warm place, this time to Grand Cayman.  I took a small watercolor kit and had big painting plans.  At first I […]

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