Author: June Nash
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Paint Out at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House
I spent the day at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House painting en plein aire. This is a juried show. The Reception is tonight. I painted two pieces in watercolor. The first, above, is of two trees on the shore of Lake St Clair. It was morning, and fishermen were out in their boats. My…
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Honorable Mention received
I painted this watercolor in January. This was at the start of my zoom, in-home, studio gatherings. We wanted to paint hummingbirds. It took me a while to complete. First I painted the two birds, but they were just two birds on a page. So I painted a vine to help join them together. I…
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Ballerinas
I get together virtually with a group of artists twice a week. I love our virtual painting sessions. We interact, share ideas and create. It is normally themed, and this week the theme was ballerinas. I struggled at first as I tried sketching. I kept erasing and was getting frustrated. Then I decided to put…
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I am back to updating my blog!
Sorry to have been away so long, but I am back. My absence from this page doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy. I have been making pottery at the Anton Art Center, Painting Watercolors through Zoom with the Lakeside Palette Club, and always Urban Sketching. I painted this butterfly during a Zoom Paint-Along with Lakeside…
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Fences
My poem, inspired by Robert Frost’s Good Fences make good neighbors (Mending Wall), and my own neighbor’s fence. I bought a house upon the shore Where neighbors dropped by door to door Then one citizen grew a thorn That was when the 1st fence was born From front to back, as high as me Beyond…
June Nash 