Plein Air Paint Out - Chicago

Oil Pastel Society - Chicago Chapter

On Saturday, May 20^th, seven oil pastel artists met to paint plein air together. We met at the Riverwalk Park in downtown Naperville, a western suburb of Chicago, IL.

This was the second meeting of the Chapter and  first time a group of oil pastel artist had gotten together to paint.

We had great weather and lots of fun. It was interesting to see the different set-ups each person used. We spread out over 2 blocks to paint for about 2 hours.

Here are some photos of everyone painting.

 

Here we all are doing an impromptu show-and-tell while we wait for our lunch table.

And here is my effort for the morning:

Since I had coordinated the event, I did some walking around to see how everyone was doing. This is about 1 &1/2 hours and I'd say it is maybe a little more than halfway done.

I think I'd like to use this and photos to start a new painting. After looking more at the "real" fountain, I think I need to mutely paint what is behind it and then overlay the water highlights.



We had so much fun that we are going to try scheduling another paint-out soon.

If you live in the Chicago area or plan to be visiting, please join us!  We will post the time and location of our next paint-out on our chapter blog:

http://ops-chgo.blogspot.com/