Busy time in sunny clime!!!

We are here in sunny FM and busily getting the last details done for Paint the Beach…Sandcastles to Shrimp Boats.  A plein air festival in Fort Myers Beach Fl.  This is the fifth year!!  And everything is getting bigger and better, with a lot of hard work on everyone’s part.  The artist roster has been full for about a month and we have a waiting list as well.  The Quick Draw event has about 30 adult artists and 27 students as well.  This will be the biggest QD ever!!

 

We kick off the event with a couple of days working with the students at Beach Elementary school, helping them to work on their own plein air paintings.  They will be displayed with the competition Nov. 7-9.  It is always fun to see what they create and also to eat a cafeteria lunch with the students afterward.  I ate with a table of kindergarten girls, dressed in pink..it was pink day, too fun!!

 

Still to be done, signs, goodie bags and getting my own gear together to paint.  I’m very rusty since I haven’t done much since Ireland in June, but it will be fun to be out there competing with them all.

 

If you are in the area be sure to come ….Nov. 7 is the gala collectors preview and awards party in the “propeller Lounge” or boat barn, where the lights will be strung on the props and the tunes will be lively with a jazz band and great food…and wonderful art.  Sat Nov. 8 is the Quick Draw competition in Times Square…2 hours to complete a painting.  They will move to the festival tent at Santini Plaza until Sunday at 2 when it all comes to an end with the FMBAA art raffle drawing.

 

And now, back to work……..