"Brandywine Blues", 14x11, plein air sketch, Jasper Crane Rose Garden, bridge over the Brandywine, Brandywine River, Wilmington Delaware scenes, Maryanne Jacobsen original art, Plein air Brandywine Valley, water reflections, Brandywine Park and Zoo, Monkey Hill

"Brandywine Blues", 14x11, plein air sketch

This is another one of the paintings that I did during Plein Air Brandywine Valley week.

The scene is from the Jasper Crane Rose Garden in Wilmington, Delaware. It was a chilly gray day when I painted there, but enjoyable nonetheless with fall colors just beginning to emerge in the trees.

This painting is available for purchase. Contact me via email at maryannejacobsen@aol.com for pricing.

"A Reflective Moment", 8x8, oil on panel

"A Reflective Moment", 8x8, oil on panel

Worked on water reflections today using the technique of Morgan Samuel Price. She is an expert plein air painter, who has written two very informative books. I am taking a plein air workshop with her this week, and I confess that I am exhausted. We painted out in the wind and cold yesterday, and I came home and went to bed at 8:30. Today it was even colder so we had a chance to paint indoors, thankfully.

Although I have been enjoying these workshops I have taken in the past couple weeks, I'll never take them so close together again! Hope I can absorb everything I have learned in such a short period of time!

Please send me an email at maryannejacobsen@aol.com, if you would like to purchase this pretty little painting of the Myakka River in Southwest Florida.