Beautiful Night Out for Art

The past few weeks have been rough for much of the country in terms of weather.  Here in the northeast we've had multiple heat waves, with last week a long run of humidity and temperatures topping out at or near 100 degrees many days.  Our basement Studio was tolerable most days, but walking around outside for any length of time was a challenge.  So a few days ago, the idea of having our critique outdoors would have been crazy.  However, the heat and humidity have dropped over the past few days and should stay that way a while, just in time for our annual poolside critique.  We had 7 regulars show up, plus Mary our host.  We relaxed with a little food and drink up front, then moved our chairs over to take in the art.

Our first wave of art included Jill's painting (a reworking of one of her recent Doris photo collages), and the two most recent prints that I finished since our last crit- St Genevieve and Animal Spirits.  On the right is something unusual.  Instead of her own work, Edy brought us some examples of art from a friend of a friend.  In this case the artist couldn't join us, as he's on death row (with hopes of changing that), but he's now a self taught artist, and we were being asked to provide advice regarding the work done so far.

Tim brought his latest mixed media abstraction, and Vince had more of his grid pieces- some new, some evolved versions of ones he brought last time.

TJ brought in a few recent paintings in progress.  Sandy tells us her abstraction on the right is also not quite finished yet, though all of us present thought it's pretty good.

We had started a little earlier than usual, so we were done by about 8 pm, but we still had plenty of daylight and ended up hanging around for another hour talking about various art related stuff.  Don't know what the weather will bring next month, but we'll be back indoors in our usual spot.