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Greetings,

Welcome to the Cooper studio, Grinnell, Iowa.

In my last post, I mentioned Bluff Strokes, a plein air event at Dubuque, Iowa.

Bluff Strokes is not geared to be a learning experience for artists, but that did not stop me!

I truly feel like my plein air painting knowledge bank prospered!!

New knowledge can be good news and bad news: I tend to look at earlier paintings with the thought of what if I go back into the painting and change this? Fix that? Just a bit of an edit right there?

But here's a little gem of a painting I don't want to change anything on:

Red Mums Say Autumn  oil on panel, 8x8 inches, and a website portfolio zoom view link  (click link) 

I painted this painting on Friday morning of Bluff Strokes week. The weather had been beautiful. And then Friday! Cold! Windy! Yikes!

As I said on my facebook (click link) page:  

"Painting Friday morning 10 12 2019, with mittens on! Bluff Strokes Plein Air, Dubuque, Iowa. I chose to paint this because it was (1) tucked away out of the wind (2) a spot where IF the sun came out, it would land on me and (3) because I love red mums!"

Thanks for stopping by!

Later, Karen

Did you know I have a 'painting of the week' column at this website?

And Red Mums Say Autumn is the entry for October 16th!

Here's the link for that (click link)