Plein Air Paint Out

Hello and welcome,

Next month there will be an international plein air painters' paintout around the world. http://ipap.homestead.com/About_Us.html The Emerald Coast Plein Air Painters Group http://pleinairflorida.org/ecpap.htm will be participating and will be on location at Seaside, Fl. So come out and experience this world wide event with us! We will be there on Friday- Sept 9th, & Sat.- Sept 10th from @ 8:oo am - 3:00 pm. With some of our work displaying at the J. Adams Gallery in Ruskin Place in Seaside. My goal is to get 2-5 paintings of the Seaside community completed that weekend.

Since our last visit our group have been getting out to Topsail Hill Preserve State Park (Sandestin), Henderson Beach State Park (Destin), The Landing (Ft. Walton Beach) and the Shoal River Country Club (Crestview)areas. The weather has been hot, sometimes rainy, but we still managed to capture great paintings! Good job everyone!

Lat year the Santa Rosa County was in the process of doing a county wide event "Beaches to Woodland Tour" with all sorts of activities and art events. Hurricane Ivan caused it to be canceled, so they will try again this year to lauch this event off the ground. This will kick off in October and last most of the month with several art night events each weekend. I'll post more detail as the time grows closer.

Last week I visited with Gallery owners Richard and Shelly Arriaga of ArriagaOriginals and the Wild Woman Gallery http://www.arriagaoriginals.com/. They were excited about the plein air paintings I was creating and offered to represent my work in their gallery. I delivered several pieces of my work to them the following day and will be rotating work in and out of the gallery on a regular basis. So get out and visit their gallery and meet some of the nicest people in the business!! We also talked about setting up my Serenity Series Paintings ( http://artbybradgreek.com/thrive.html )for the tour in the near future.

The 23rd Northwest Florida Fair Fine Arts Show sponcered by the Arts & Design Society (ADSO) of Ft. Walton Bch. http://www.artsdesignsociety.com/ is just around the corner. Oct. 21st- 29th, 2005. So you will have plenty of time to get prepared for this show.

Recently I met a local artist Akeem Wayne Scott http://www.akeemwayne.com of Niceville who informed me of the Destin Festival of the Arts at Henderson Beach State Park on Oct. 29-30, 5005. He will be displaying in the show with his work. I will be checking into the competition for more detail, who knows, I might even enter it. Thanx Akeem for the info.

I am also invited to demonstrate for the Cultural Arts Association's (CAA) http://www.culturalartsassociation.org/ monthly meeting on Sept. 13th with other plein air painters. We will be displaying our work from the paintout the week before. This will also give me a chance to meet some of the members as I recently became a member.

Today I delivered my version of a painting that Tammy Kevwitch, Publisher of the Artist of the Emerald Coast Magazine http://www.artistsoftheusa.com/emcoast/ had ask me to put my own touches to. This is a project that she is trying out to see what kind of outcome would come of it from different artists. Then she will be producing giclee prints of the different versions to market in the Yellowstone County, Montana area. The Artist of the Emerald Coast Magazine is coming along nicely and is due for publication in Oct. 2005. I can't waite to see it!!

Well I have a few paintings to work on and more planning to do, Thank you for following along with me in my quest as an artist.

Brad