Plein Air Painting or Face to Face?

This past weekend I spent 3 full days painting in Morristown New York for the Library Plein Air Festival.

Whats that you say? Aren't you supposed to be framing?!

Yes and No. I have to paint. I have to frame. The frame work is coming along. This past weekend was a leap forward for my work. No I did not sell nor win anything but I made 7 pieces - three small seen here and 4 larger which I will put up later. 

Day One: Painting in the Car in the Rain 6x11

All of them are gifts offered in the Adirondack Gives campaign for Face to Face: Let's Get It Framed. For $100 a backer will receive a small unframed pastel like one of these three. I have accumulated a couple of dozen of these sweet little paintings to offer as a gift for backing Face to Face in the campaign.  For $500 a backer receives a small framed plein air work. For $1000 a backer receives a barn painting. And o the barns in Morristown are extraordinary.

Day One; The sun came out! 6x11

Why would this be of interest?

If you have been reading about Face to Face for the last year and a half you will know there were 185 people who had a portrait made for this project. The work belongs to Saranac Lake and will reside in Saranac Lake on permanent loan. They are not being sold to the folks who sat for the project. They are staying together as the collection representing a slice of Saranac Lake in 2014, a piece of history.

Face to Face belongs to you.

I need your help to complete the project, to have the pieces ready to show in in November in the Library. Head to the site and read more about it.

Only 34 more days to go!

Day Two: Hidden red barn,at the river outlet. 7x8

As Cherrie Sayles said to me 2 years ago,
Let's get 'er done!












 Click here to become a backer. https://adirondackgives.org/campaigns/face-face-drawn-saranac-lake-lets-get-framed/

Ladies of February Face to Face

Studio Tour, Cookies, Mountains and Faces.

Here is the "Birds Eye View" from the Wild Walk in Tupper Lake. This 12x28 piece has been framed and ready to be seen tomorrow during Artist at Work Studio Tour.

Bird's Eye View

And a dose of faces from Face to Face. As usual I'm asking if anyone knows every one in the group. Let me know! Help out the framing by going clicking here: https://adirondackgives.org/campaigns/face-face-drawn-saranac-lake-lets-get-framed/#backers

Yes I will have cookies. The oven is preheating as I write. Tour is 10-5 tomorrow, Saturday, July 25 or you can check my website for weekly hours.

I am heading out to Morristown for a Plein Air event to benefit Morristown Library this coming week. The big river is a sight there and Amish are everywhere. Looking forward to just painting.

PS. I have a very nervous Pheobe who took over a Robins nest on my porch. She is going to be upset all day. Her clutch has finally hatched. She has just not gotten used to us walking on the porch.

How Not to Procrastinate - Allegedly.

Who knows all these folks? They are some of the very earliest sitters for Face to Face.

So there a a qazillion cool tools on the inter-web,  as Chris calls it - to set up schedules and announce events, calculate exercise and calorie intake. The list goes on… The one that got me is the tool counting down to November 12, 2015. 114 days to go til Face to Face opens in the library.

There are 48 days to go til the end of the online Adirondack Gives campaign that has been set up to help fund framing all 185 faces. It is 27% funded as of this particular moment.
 https://adirondackgives.org/campaigns/face-face-drawn-saranac-lake-lets-get-framed/

I have lost track of how many people have stopped at my studio to pick up their gift for sitting last year - a full size digital portrait print for each person who sat for two hours - plus or minus.

Still early in the framing, there are 22 framed today - only 165 more to frame.

Stats and numbers are not my forte. I hate doing books but I am good at framing and designing a space to hang art. I do like schedules so this cool little tool telling me that there are 114 days left is a great prod for me to keep at the frame work.

"Yeah but you're writing right now. What's with that?" you say.

Good question.

This coming Saturday, July 25, is the first Last Saturday Artist at Work Studio Tour for 2015. Come visit an artist at work. Pick up your portrait print. See some plein air work of the area. Marvel at how much space 185 frames takes up.

AND… If you cannot make it Saturday check my website. The front page has studio hours posted weekly - http://dianeleifheit.com/

113 and 1/2 days to go…