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| This is the beautiful idyllic scene we had always wanted to paint. For several years my friend Nancy and I would bike along the Highline Canal in Denver and thought one day we would paint this view. The purple mountains topped with snow are difficult to see but there. |
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| The highline canal bike trail is lined with expensive gorgeous homes shaded and a lovely ride. It is near the southglenn Mall where we parked and headed north on the trail. We invited Linette, a fellow teacher and avid biker (notice her cool shirt) to come with us for our journey. The ride in was 4.6 miles until we got to the spot. We set up our easels and started sketching in the scene with our charcoal. |
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| It was fun as different people walked by and looked at our painting. We think the barn in front used to be an old school. The door was open today and we peered in. Seems as there is some restoration going on with it and part of it used to be used as a chicken coop. |
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| Here is the three of us set up at work. It was fun to mix our colors and to put down the underpainting for the details I was planning on top. I put in the sky and green behind the houses and then put in the solid color of the houses and roof. I did not finish but hope to this summer. I found out the brushes we had at school did not do the job for detail but were fine for the background getting the color down. |
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| As you can see each painter chose a different view as their main subject. |
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| Here is Nancy loaded down with her finished painting ready for the ride back. We had a great time and hope to try the Hudson Gardens for our next "en plain air" painting project |
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| The paintings we started. Each one had a different viewpoint. But we all included those mountains. |
