October 2024
Forsyth Park Fountain - Savannah - Georgia Color The frenetic fall pace continued through October! We got back from Rome on Sunday, September 29 and then it was straight into plein air week at Piedmont Park. There are always eccentric folks in the park but it seemed like there were more than usual this go round. As a plein air painter, we are extremely vulnerable in terms of safety. We usually have our backs to people and can’t see who might be standing behind us. And we are in a fixed spot, focused on one particular subject, gear spread out on the ground. For these reasons and more, I try not to paint by myself. But even so, we still sometimes get stuck dealing with people we’d rather not deal with. This man was well meaning, but commented on every single brush stroke as I was painting. It makes it extremely difficult to make decisions with constant chatter, so this ended up being a scraper. What kills m
