Winters Plein Air Festival

This last week I participated in the annual Winters Plein Air Art Festival 2012.  There were over 40 artists who participated in this event.  We had from 5/4 to 5/11 to paint the wonderful small agricultural town of Winters, CA and/ or paint the vineyards and the surrounding hills (just so the painting location was within a 15 mile radius of downtown Winters).

The artists who participated produced some very strong paintings by the end of the week.  I enjoyed getting to know some of these artists.  One day while painting a vineyard, I met an almond grower who pulled up on his tractor to see what we were doing. He gave us a wonderful agricultural history of the area.  Twelve miles from Winters you can see the beginnings of Lake Berryessa (ptg attached).  While painting at the Berryessa site, we heard bull frogs!! very loud!  The third painting shown here was painted on Russell Blvd.  These paintings (along with many other great artists' works) can be viewed at Briggs and Company, 314 Railroad, Winters, CA 95694 (http://www.briggsandco.com/)

from May 11th through May 30th.