Plein air painters and wooden boat show

The lawn in front of the Hotel Lakeside was a busy place today. The wooden boat show and the Ohio Plein Air show were sharing space and viewers. Each year the show gets better and better. My husband is teaching at the Rhein Center this week, so after registration from 1-3 p.m. he changed clothes and went down to the lake to take kids out for a free sail boat ride. The water was perfect and about 100 kids participated. The temperature was in the upper 80s, but there was a cool breeze. Our friends Duke and Kinga from Indiana are here; we went to church together and had breakfast and dinner together before they returned to their camp at East Harbor State Park.

Lakeside 2008 Plein Air Paintout

This week-end, July 11-13, Lakeside hosts the artists of the Ohio Plein Air Society (in the open air). Over forty artists are expected to be painting on the grounds and surrounding area on the Marblehead Peninsula. On Sunday paintings that were done this week-end will be for sale and an original oil by Jim White will be auctioned off to the highest bidder at 4 p.m. The art event coincides with the Fifth Annual Lakeside Wooden Boat Show.

Welcome artists, guests, and watchers

Jack Liberman of Akron finds a shady spot for a lakefront painting.

Capturing the crowd at Coffee and Cream from the shade of the marquee of the only movie theater in the county.
This artist has drawn some fans


Last year's paintout

The Lakeside Plein Air Paintout and Show

Because my computer was down in the middle of the month, I couldn't tell you about the Lakeside Plein Air Paintout and Art Show, July 13-15. It was great fun watching these artists work. And when they displayed their art on Sunday (you could buy a wet, fresh painting), it was during the wooden boat show. I wouldn't have thought to combine the two, but the boats were great subjects, and didn't move, and people who came to see one show also enjoyed the other. You can see the grass was a bit dry, but there have been some nice greening rains since then. From this amateur's eye, it looked like a smallish masonite board, sanded and primed offered the artist the best rigidity and hope for withstanding the changes in the weather. Although I did see one or two watercolorists, most artists were using oil, or acrylic with an extender which kept it from drying too fast. Watercolor dries quickly even in the studio, and outside, well, in a blink, so you'd better have great control.