April 2024
April is easily the busiest month of my life … a rollercoaster month filled with hard work, gratification, excitement, exhaustion and inspiration. The month began with a weeklong paint out at Piedmont Park for the Virginia Highland Plein Air Painters. Every artist has their ideal weather conditions for painting and the week was right up my alley. It was breezy, cool and not too humid. Azaleas were bloomin, spring greens were poppin. I sold almost all of my paintings, so that was the cherry on top. Piedmont Park invited me to teach 18 artists how to paint flowers at the Piedmont Park Community Center. What a thrill! For some, it was the very first time painting anything! And they did it!! Everyone walked out of there with a painting and a boost of self confidence! So incredibly gratifying. The following week Scott and I flew to New York. Scott had a work conference and I tagged along so that I could spend the week learning and studying in The Met, MoMA, Neue Galerie, Brooklyn Museum an
