January Challenge Results - Month 4

The January Challenge Photo of these beautiful yellow lillies was chosen to brighten up the winter blues.  Next month's challenge--more flowers but with warmer analogous colors.

This is the January Challenge Photo

Bill Gavin

Veronica Wolfe

Dorothy Aham

Mary Pyche

It's never too late to submit your painting of the month.

This is the next (February's) challenge photo:

To join us:

1. Paint the photo making any changes you wish, any size, any medium.
2. Take a photo of your work and email it to mpyche@comcast.net preferably by the last day of the month as the new set of challenge photos will be posted about the first of the month. Your photo can be added at any time during that challenge month.
3. Your email address will be linked to your painting so comments can be sent directly to you.
4. Your email, blog, website information can be posted to the side bar and a slide-show photo of a sample of your work can be added.

5. It would be advantageous to all if you would advertise this blog by any means you can think of, emailing friends, adding this blog address to your site, etc.–handing out business cards with your name and the name of the blog will help your friends to find us. I have a template for these cards which I will happily send to you at your request then you can just print them out.
6. Please email the new blog each month to all your friends and art contacts.

7. Please try to find venues who will hang a show of our work–show them the blog.

December Challenge Results - Month 3

These were the December Challenge Photos

This month's challenge was to paint "People at the Museum" - The Metropolitan Museum, NYC.  Because this was a departure from the usual topic of landscape painting, two photos were provided so the painter could do a companion piece if he/she so chose.  Congrats to those artists who participated at this extremely busy time of the year, they deserve extra credit!  Next month - Flowers!

Grace Daly

Mary Zolotas

Barbara Kremer

Mary Pyche

Lynn Murray

This is the (next) January Challenge Photo:

To join us:

1. Paint the photo making any changes you wish, any size, any medium.

2. Take a photo of your work and email it to mpyche@comcast.net preferably by the last day of the month as the new set of challenge photos will be posted about the first of the month. Your photo can be added at any time during that challenge month.

3. Your email address will be linked to your painting so comments can be sent directly to you.

4. Your email, blog, website information can be posted to the side bar and a slide-show photo of a sample of your work can be added.

5. It would be advantageous to all if you would advertise this blog by any means you can think of, emailing friends, adding this blog address to your site, etc.–handing out business cards with your name and the name of the blog will help your friends to find us. I have a template for these cards which I will happily send to you at your request then you can just print them out.

6. Please email the new blog each month to all your friends and art contacts.

7. Please try to find venues who will hang a show of our work–show them the blog.

November Challenge Results - Month 2

This month’s challenge was to capture this water scene at sunrise with a skim of ice on the water.

These artists sincerely hope that you enjoy viewing their art and comparing artistic impressions on a single subject. All are accomplished artists, and you can contact them or view their blogs or web pages through information in the right margin of this page. If you have a venue in the area (generally north of Boston), the club would be pleased to hang a show in your establishment in short order and would enjoy the opportunity.
 

The subject photograph:

See how our artists portrayed this photo:

Bill Gavin

Kathleen Bennett

Mary Pyche

Grace Daly

Mary Zolotas

Barbara Kremer

Jean Teneriello

Dorothy Aham

Fran Freshman

Sandy McDermott

This is the (next) December challenge:

This month, along with the primary challenge, you may submit a second painting.

If you paint the second photo, both your paintings will be displayed side-by-side.

To join us:

1. Paint the photo making any changes you wish, any size, any medium.
2. Take a photo of your work and email it to mpyche@comcast.net preferably by the last day of the month as the new set of challenge photos will be posted on the first of the month. Your photo can be added at any time during that challenge month.
3. Your email address will be linked to your painting so comments can be sent directly to you.
4. Your email, blog, website information can be posted to the side bar and a slide-show photo of a sample of your work can be added.
5. It would be advantageous to all if you would advertise this blog by any means you can think of, emailing friends, adding this blog address to your site, etc.–handing out business cards with your name and the name of the blog will help your friends to find us. I have a template for these cards which I will happily send to you at your request then you can just print them out.
6. Please email the new blog each month to all your friends and art contacts.
7. Please try to find venues who will hang a show of our work–show them the blog.

October Challenge Results - Month 1

Well, here goes!  This inaugural exhibition of the "A Painting A Month Club" is launching with 14 artists painting their rendition of a photo of the Cox Reservation in Essex, MA.  These artists sincerely hope that you enjoy viewing their art and comparing artistic impressions on a single subject.  These are all accomplished artists, and you can contact them or view their blogs or web pages through information in the right margin of this page.  If you own a venue in the area (generally north of Boston), the club would be pleased to hang a show in your establishment in short order and would enjoy the opportunity.

The subject photograph

Barbara Kremer

Bill Gavin

Cindy Stern

Dale Partiss Greene

Dorothy Aham

Grace Daly

Heather Karp

Kathleen Bennett

Margery Jennings

Pam Parras

Mary Pyche

Robin Thornhill

Sandy McDermott

Sunny West

This is the November Challenge Photo:

Sunrise on the pond in the winter.

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Success! So far 13 have met the challenge.

I've received 13 so far and there's still a little time left.  Interest is building.  This blog is open to anyone in our area, namely, Boston and it's suburbs, north of Boston, southern N.H., southern Maine.  The blog will roll over tonight into November and then October will be achived.  That is the reason why the October challenge paintings will be put up on the first of the following month, so they will stay up on the screen for a month.  The archive is easily accessible by clicking on the month you want.  The November challenge photo has been sent out, let me know if you need it:  mpyche@comcast.net

Welcome aboard.

Welcome to the roughly 20 members of the Band of Brushes Plein Air Painting Group who accepted the challenge to create a painting a month and post it here for everyone's perusal and enjoyment.