Yesterday I went out to the Purdy bridge for some plein air painting with two other artists and came away with these two 9" x 12" oil paintings.  Both paintings - "Purdy Bridge at Low Tide" and "Purdy at Low Tide" were done using only pthalo blue and burnt sienna adding a little Naples yellow and white at the very end.  When I was done with the bridge painting, I turned about 45 degrees and did the low tide painting.  All in all a good day.  By the time I left, the clouds were beginning to burn off and definite shadows started to appear. 

        

My pastel painting, "Hyak Shade", won Third Place at the Peninsula Art League's Summer Members show during the Gig Harbor Summer Arts Festival last weekend.  It will be hanging at Kimball Espresso and Gallery in Gig Harbor for a couple of months starting Monday, July 23rd. 

This is a plein air oil painting I did last Saturday at the Blue Willow Lavender Festival in Vaughan WA.   There was thunder in the distance and puffy clouds in a blue sky, a really beautiful day. 

These are the three pastel paintings I've entered into the Emerald Downs Equine Juried Art Show for this weekend.  If you happen to be out that way, I hope you will stop by to see the show - always wonderful to look at especially if you like horses!  Top: Benny, 17" x 11; middle: Carousel #2, 11" x 17"; and bottom: Fair On Board, 17" x 23". 

Just finished this new oil painting, "X Marks the Spot", 48" x 30".  It went pretty quickly - took me about 3 days of concentrated painting (with occassional breaks to watch Harry Potter movies ;-).

Thank you to everyone who voted for my painting, "Where Nymphs Play" as People's Choice at Collective Visions Gallery during Bremerton's First Friday Artwalk!  The featured artist this month is Dee Molinaar.  He has quite an impressive collection of watercolor paintings of mountains, and Gail Hornsby's students are showing their work in the Boardroom.  Come and see all the wonderful art through July 28th at 4th and Pacific in Downtown Bremerton. 

I just finished this little oil painting (14" x 11) as part of a series of six alpaca paintings for use as greeting cards that my brother and sister-in-law will be selling through their Sun Gate Alpaca Ranch (www.sungatealpacas.com) in Evanston/Casper WY .  Check out my Alpaca Gallery page at http://mary.mcinnis.artistwebsites.com to see all six paintings.