"Spanish Facade Garden", 9x12, plein air
The painting above was painted on location at
The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Fl., during the
Lighthouse Plein Air Festival a few weeks ago.
The gardens there are maintained by the
Garden Club of Palm Beach and they are truly lovely and serene. For my first painting of the festival, I chose a shady area of the gardens that is called the Spanish Facade, because they built a small replica of a Spanish hacienda there. The gardens were in complete shade in the morning light, and although the sun began to produce dappled light throughout the garden as the morning progressed, I knew I had to stick with the original light pattern that I started with rather than chase the light.
The festival was wonderful and some of the best plein air painters in the country participated including Shelby Keefe, Jason Sacran and Ken deWaard, who painted right behind me in the Spanish facade garden that morning. I managed to paint 4 paintings in a short time span and I was pleased with the results. I'll be posting more paintings from the event over the next few days.
Here's a pic of the finished painting in the garden. You can see the the light was very different at noon from when I began the painting around 9:30.
If you are interested in purchasing this plein air painting, please send me an email at maryanneJacobsen@aol.com
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