This is the second painting from Wednesday morning. It was almost time to go. I wanted to see what would happen if I painted almost the same thing again very fast.
This was the first painting of that day. I was with the Plein Air group from Northstar Watermedia Society. We were in Indian Mounds Park across the river from downtown St. Paul. I decided to focus on the milkweed plant and the high bridge. When I was a toddler I lived over on that bluff. I do not remember that time of my life. When I was first married, my husband worked in one of the buildings near the river. I do remember that. I left out most of the buildings. Some of the other artists were complaining about how complicated the scene was. That frame of mind is foreign to me. You are the artist, you decide what to leave in, what to leave out. Maybe they were just making conversation, or were just not inspired by the location and that is ok.
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