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Please be advised that the paint out schedule is updated often
and is subject to change. Check here for directions and map information.
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2008
Paintout
Schedule
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January
5,12,19,26
5
Museum
Paint-ins |
February 23
Urban
Blight
Columbus |
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May
17
PineTree
Barn
Wooster |
June
2008
Buck
Creek
State Park |
Lakeside |
August
23
Gorman Farm
Cincinnati |
"New
Philadelphia"
5th Annual
Competition
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2008
Canter's Cave
Jackson |
Plan Me |
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SAVE THE DATES . . .
"5th OPAS Plein Air
Competition - New Philadelphia"
September 19, 20, 21, 2008
The 2008 Schedule!
January 5, 12, 19, 26, 2008
"5 Museum Paint-Ins"
Counties : Hamilton, Franklin,
Clark, Champaign, Lucas
OPAS
Hosts :
Paul Reif, Springfield,
Chuck Harris, Columbus, Martha Carmondy, Cincinnati,
Edy Martin, Dayton,
Julie Draeger, Toledo.
Thanks to Program Co-Chair Susi Havens-Bezaire for
organizing this!
CLICK
for Updates from all the museums paintouts.
So many OPAS members enjoyed our
2006 & 2007 Museum Paint-In that we have arranged a return visit.
One of the most delightful surprises of a visit to the Louvre is
observing artists, young and old, replicating master works to
improve their skills. Five Ohio museums are opening their doors to
OPAS members in a similar fashion this coming January.
Due to Ohio weather
unpredictability in January, OPAS has collaborated with
The Columbus Art
Museum, The Cincinnati Art Museum, The Dayton Art Institute
and for the first time - the Toledo Museum
of Art and Springfield Museum of Art to provide a closer
destination to all OPAS painters. We scheduled the Paint
Ins on different Saturdays to honor the request from members who
wanted to go to multiple museums.
A little intimidated to try this?
There is a wonderful synergy that develops when you are
replicating a work in a museum. You will be surprised at how much
you learn from this process! You'll also be surprised at how
respectful most museum goers will be. Yet, if you choose to,
you'll enjoy wonderful dialogues with strangers. Those who stop to
watch you paint will admire and respect your efforts and are
usually very generous with their compliments.
The
Springfield Museum of Art
Saturday,
January 5
OPAS member Paul Reif hosted. He
writes:
"Arrived at the Museum
before 9am and two long distant travelers were sleeping in
their cars."
Scroll down
to learn more about the museums.
or
Click
for text and more photos from all the
museums!
L to R, OPAS Members who painted at
Springfield Museum:
Paul Reif, Robert Davitian, Alice Seyfried, Fred Baughman,
Diana
Hoke, Linnae Wilson, Gary Chaconas and Edy Martin.
The
Springfield Art Museum
http://www.springfieldart.museum/
The mission of the Springfield Museum of Art is to
collect, exhibit and preserve works of art for the benefit of
all individuals, while encouraging the education and
participation in, and the enjoyment and appreciation of the
arts. It ihosted an OPAS Exhibition in 2007. The museum hours are
9:00 to 5:00 and admission is free for painters, sherpas pay $5.
Springfield Art Museum does not require artists to sign a form.
Click
here to get directions to the
Springfield Art Museum:http://www.springfieldart.museum/content/view/166/246/
The
Columbus Museum of Art
Saturday,
January 12
OPAS member Chuck Harris was the host.
"The energy level was high
at the Columbus Museum paintout."
Click
for text and more photos from all the
museums!
The
Columbus Museum of Art
http://www.columbusmuseum.org/exhibitions/
houses an outstanding collection of late nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century American and European modern art. This
collection includes major works by Monet, Matisse, Picasso,
Renoir, Hopper and O'Keeffe and other spectacular examples of
Impressionism, German Expressionism, and Cubism. The museum
hours are from 10:00a.m. to 5:30p.m. and admission is $6 for
adults and $4 for seniors. It is located at 480 E Broad St.,
Columbus, OH 43215.
Before you go –
please download this form
and review it prior to heading for the Museum. You will
note that you must first select the piece you plan to study and
turn in the form to the front desk:
Click
here
to get directions to the Columbus
Museum for Art:
http://www.columbusmuseum.org/info/
The
Cincinnati Art Museum
Saturday,
January 19
OPAS member Martha Carmody was the
host.
"Cincinnati
had a great turnout of artists from all around."
Click
for text and more photos from all the
museums!
The Cincinnati Art Museum
http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/
was excited to have OPAS return for the third year. Cincinnati
Art Museum has a rich collection of more than sixty thousand
works of art, spanning six thousand years. The museum hours are
from 11a.m. to 5p.m. and admission is free. The artist critique
will be at 3:00. It is located at 953 Eden Park Drive,
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202.
Before you go –
please download this form and
review it prior to heading for the Museum.
Click
here to get directions to the Cincinnati Museum:
http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/absolutenm/templates/ArtTempVisit.aspx?articleid=68&zoneid=21
Dayton Art Institute
Saturday,
January 26
OPAS member Edy Martin was the host.
" . . . not only was this my
first attempt at doing this,
but I hadn't slept in more than 28
hours."
Ruth Ann Sturgill
Click
for text and more photos from all the
museums!
Edy Martin painting in the Dayton Art Institute
The
Dayton Art Institute
http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/exhibits/current.html
was founded in 1919 and also operated a traditional art school.
The collection, now comprised of more than 25,000 objects
spanning 5,000 years of art history, is rated as “superb in
quality” by the American Association of Museums. The museum
hours are from 10:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. and general admission is
free. It is located at 456 Belmonte Park North , Dayton, Ohio.
Before you go –
please download this form and
review it prior to heading for the Museum. The 2 week advanced
notice is waived so that you can select the piece you plan to
study that day:
Click
here to get directions to the
Dayton Art Institute:
http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/info/general_dir.html
The
Toledo Museum of Art
Saturday,
January 26
OPAS member Julie Draeger was the
host.
This was the first time Toledo had allowed painters to come in and
copy.
Click
for text and more photos from all the
museums!
These gals sure do look better than this in person. Sherpas
Golba & Dziak.
Toledo Museum could only accommodate
10 painters and they were permitted to paint only in the American
Galleries. There are three American Galleries, and each was limited to a maximum of four painters per room, so it was
a first come, first served.
The paint in started at 10:00 am.
The Toledo Museum of Art
http://www.toledomuseum.org/
collection of more than 30,000 works of art ranks among the
finest in the United States. There are 35 galleries, Sculpture
Garden, and new Glass Pavilion, discover important, popular, and
outstanding works of art, including paintings and sculptures by
Bearden, Cézanne, Calder, Close, Cole, Degas, van Gogh, El
Greco, Holbein, Kiefer, Matisse, Miró, Monet, Picasso,
Rembrandt, Rubens, and Turner; masterworks from antiquity and
Asia; decorative arts; and highlights from the renowned glass
collection. Museum house are 10:00am. to 4:00p.m. and admission
is free. It is located at 2445 Monroe Street at Scottwood
Avenue, Toledo, Ohio.
Click
here to get directions to the
Toledo Museum of Art:
http://www.toledomuseum.org/PDF/Map_with_directions.pdf
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FEBRUARY
23,
2008
"Urban Blight"
- Paint outside or from out of a 4th floor window!
Franklin County
Address : 243 N. Fifth Street, Suite 420, Columbus, Ohio
43215
Phone : 614.221.8988
Email :
jbrowning@browninglaw.us
Host : Jon Browning
Left to Right: Robert Davitian taping down
his paper while Hal Thorley paints the city outside the
window.
Dianne Coppacia; J. Robert Reed; Lee Hanford; and Ray
Hassard works out a composition as Gary Chaconas paints.
Hal
Thorley, Gary Chaconas, Robert Davitian, Lee Hanford, Jon
Browning, Debra Joyce Dawson, Ray Hassard, Karen LaValley,
and J. Robert Reed were some of the artists that took part
in this Urban Blight Challenge. And it was challenging! With
snow on the ground, Ohio's beautiful greyness, gave way to
sun and melting snow. Parked cars came and went, and not
many people populated the cold streets outside. All of the
above mentioned painters chose to paint indoors, from Jon's
office space, now dubbed "the Penthouse". It offered a great
4th floor, bird's-eye point of view.
The first floor cafe was open for refreshments, and several
painters partook of breakfast or lunch and conversation.
Edie Dean stopped by to snap some photos and "do lunch".
Everyone was delighted with the quality of natural light and
subject matter that "the penthouse" provided. Kudos to those
artists that decided to come out and paint the grittiness of
the city!
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MARCH 2008 - Two things this month!
Thing One . . .
March 15 Paintout
Thing Two . . .
March 29
Annual Meeting
MARCH 15, 2008 -
Saturday
"Cleveland
South
Chagrin Metroparks and Vicinity"
Cuyahoga County
Address : Look About Lodge, 37374 Miles Road, Chagrin
Falls OH 44022
Host : Diane Farr
Phone : 440.247.9430, cell 440.463.1866
Email :
dianefarr@att.net
Map :
www.mapquest.com (address
37850 Miles Road, zip code 44022)
Websites for more area info :
www.CleMetParks.com,
www.chagrin-falls.org,
www.HuntingValley.net,
www.GatesMillsVillage.com
Eight hearty painters
braved fog and remnants of snow for the March 15th paint
out in the Cleveland MetroPark. Three of the attendees
were new to OPAS, and hopefully will join us again in the
future. After some coffee and muffins, we headed out to
paint beautiful scenes with trees, rivers, and of course
snow, then regrouped around 2:00 for a critique session
facilitated by Diane Farr. The location and Lodge were so
wonderful, we hope to repeat this event again.
In attendance were Deb Calix,
Nancy Hawkins, Jim Polewchak, Diane Farr, Lee Hanford and (not
in picture) Nancy Martin, Betty Kovacs, and John Quigley.
Thing Two . . .
March 29 Annual Meeting
MARCH 29, 2008 -
Saturday
"OPAS Annual
Meeting"
Franklin County
Loy Hall Studio, Capital University
College and Main, Columbus, OH 43209-2394
Members who attended the Annual Meeting were:
Monica Achberger (Loveland), Nancy Achberger (Milford), Jon
Browning (Upper Arlington), Dianne Capoccia (Westerville),
Martha Carmody (Cincinnati), Gary Chaconas (Newark), Mary
Ann Clady (Crestline), Rich Clem (Gahanna), Ann Cole (Blacklick),
Kit Dailey (Jackson), John Daniels (Columbus), Robert
Davitian (Columbus), Edie Dean (Columbus), Mark DeLong
(Huron), Elaine Freeman (Westerville), Angela Gage (Lewis
Center), Joan Garverick (Shelby), Chuck Harris (Columbus),
Susi Havens-Bezaire (Dublin), Mary Holobaugh (Centerburg),
Anastasia Horowitz (Gahanna), Karen LaValley (Westerville),
Carolyn Lewis (Cuyahoga Falls), Jack Liberman (Akron), Joe
Lombardo (Elyria), Fran Mangino (Westerville), Dino
Massaroni (Tallmadge), Michael McEwan (Columbus), Cinda
Motter, David Reed (Ashville), J. Robert Reed (Columbus),
Sheila Riat (Bexley), Vivian Ripley (Columbus), Tom Rodgers
(Dublin), Vivian Rowntree (Lancaster), Susanne Schiering
(London), Lisa Schorr (Lancaster), Ronald Seifert
(Mansfield), Alice Seyfried (London), Annette Simon (Canal
Winchester), Jean Smith (Columbus), Doreen St. John
(Hartville), Ruth Ann Sturgill (Lima), Patty Sykes (Canal
Winchester), Thoma Swanson (Columbus), Hal Thorley
(Columbus), Pam Turnbow (Indiana), Sharon Visintine
(Columbus), Sharon Weaver (Crestline). Guests included: Judy
Bozick, Bob Price, Kent Turnbow and Judy Hazen.
Update on 2008 Zanesville Art Center Exhibition from VP &
Exhibition Chair John Daniels.
11:00 AM :
Keynote
Speaker: Charles
A. Shepard III
Charles A. Shepard, Executive Director, Ft.
Wayne Museum of Art
"What Museums
Don't Want Artists to Know"
Charles A. Shepard is the
Executive Director of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. He has
been involved in making, presenting, teaching, and
introducing people to art for over thirty years. Beginning
his career as the Director of the Ann Arbor Art Fair, he has
been a professor of art history, senior curator and director
at three university museums. He is the founder of the
University of Maine’s UM Museum of Art.
Charles Shepard, Executive
Director of the Ft. Wayne Museum of Art gave a Career
Development Lecture followed by half-hour private critiques of
members work who pre-registered for that opportunity. There
were a limited number of time slots for a personal critique.
These werel offered
on a first come first, first served basis.
President Jon Browning writes:
The speaker, Charles A. Shepard, III,
was excellent. He offered sound advice on how to market
painting, and his advice was punctuated with wonderful
stories about life amongst the big galleries. He also
offered personal critiques for those who signed up.
The key
moment of the day, though, may be that he bought one of Edie
Dean’s paintings for the Ft. Wayne Museum of Art.
Yow! Hats
off to Edie. Huge day for her.
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APRIL 26, 2008
"April
in Athens"
Athens County
Check-in
Address : ARTS/West 132 W. State St., Athens, OH
45701
ARTS/West
Phone : 740.592.4315
http://artswest.blogspot.com/
Jeff's Cell Phone :
740.591.8504 cell
Email :
jeff.risner@gmail.com
Hosts : Jeffrey Risner
Thanks to Jeff Risner for planning this paintout!
An
early bird, Chuck Harris. Look at those donuts!
Debra Dawson writes:
It was a pleasure to be back in this area of Ohio. The rolling
hills were a great backdrop to a spring which was on steroids! The
flowering trees were in full bloom, and they were a nice compliment to the
fresh spring greens. The weather was great.
Threatening rain in the morning, the day turned into warm
sunshine. OPAS Host and Trustee, Jeff Risner, was waiting at 9:00 AM in the ARTS/West
Community Arts Center with the promised coffee and donuts. He provided maps
and good info on places to paint. One of the favorite locations
turned out to be White's Mill. Four artists chose that spot to
paint and it was interesting to see the different interpretations
of the mill, which may be familiar to some of you from the years of the OPAS
Nelsonville Plein Air Competition.
Not everyone returned for the 3:00 PM critique, but
those that did were treated to a discussion of their work by local
teacher/artist Ron Luce.
Left: New member Sharon Becker and her Sherpa; Right, Karen
LaValley painting just outside the door.
Attending
this paintout:
New member Sharon Becker & New Sherpa Stan; Robert
Davitian; Debra Joyce Dawson & Sherpa Martin; Edie Dean; Kit
Dailey; John Daniels;
Elaine Freeman; Angela Gage; Carolyn Hefflefinger;
Chuck Harris; Mary Holobaugh; Karen LaValley; Fran Mangino;
Michelle Morris; Jeff Risner; Vivian Rowntree; first time plein
air painting - new member Annette Simon; and Maria White.
GOOGLE MAP :
Jeff has marked many of the sites of interest
including ARTS/West. Be sure the Satellite button is pushed
to see the actual land on the map and get a better idea of what
you are painting. The map can be printed. Jeff will continue to
update the map.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=110681643159951309842.0004487b42068399b90b2&ll=39.344122,-82.070103&spn=0.058279,0.11261&t=h&z=13
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MAY 17, 2008 -
the original date was incorrect. May 17 is
the date!
"Pine
Tree Barn"
Wooster, OH
County : Wayne
Address : 4374 Shreve Road, Wooster, OH
Phone : 330.264.1014
Website :
www.pinetreebarn.com/
Contact :
rita@pinetreebarn.com
Host : Cinda Motter
Critique : Dino Massaroni
Thanks for Cinda K. Price for planning this paintout for the third
year.
Please RSVP
to Cinda at
ckmotter@zoominternet.net
so Pine Tree Barn can have the coffee and muffins ready!
May 2008 : Update on this paintout will
be posted when it is sent.
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JUNE 14, 2008
"Buck
Creek State Park"
County :
Address : 1901 Buck Creek Lane, Springfield, OH 45502
Phone : 937.322.5284
Website :
http://www.buckcreekstatepark.org/
Critique : 3:00 PM
Thanks to Mark Gingerich for planning this paintout!
Paul Reif writes:
"We had
a great day with wonderful weather, Mark did us proud."
Photos courtesy of Edie Dean and Paul Reif. At right,
Mark Gingerich, an OPAS founder and planner of this paintout.
Click on any photo below to enlarge.
Uncle George Leach & niece, Gary Chaconas, his
painting, George's painting, Paul Reif, Alice Seyfried painting,
Barb's paiunting.
Group critique, Nancy Hawkins painting, Tom Rodgers
painting, Carol Cosgrove, painters, Chuck Harris painting,
Cosgrove painting.
Group shot, Mark Gingerich painting, group
paintings, youngest painter of them all, Cosgrove painting,
Seyfried painting, Harris paintings.
Sharon Becker watercolor, group painting, again, en
fin, a beautiful day!!!
Buck Creek State Park is one of my favorite
painting locations in all of Ohio. The marina area is nestled
between a hills with scrub and trees. There are two parking lots
on either side of the marina that provide very good elevated views
of the area although it requires a bit of driving to reach them,
then there is the marina parking lot for an up close painting of
the marina area. Mark Gingerich.
JUNE 28, 2008
"Glen
Echo Ravine"
Franklin County
Address :
Glen Echo Ravine, 510 Cliffside Drive, Columbus, OH 43202
Website :
http://recparks.columbus.gov/Parks/Parks_143.asp
Phone : 614.563.1834 cell
Email :
bturner@columbus.rr.com
Host : Bridgette Turner
Thanks to Bridgette Turner for planning this paintout!
More
photos of this paintout below. At left :
"Gary's Red Tent Plein Air Studio"
6" x 8", Oil on Panel, by Debra Joyce Dawson
Here's a painting of OPAS member Gary Chaconas. In his new red
tent rain studio, Gary worked away on his painting of the ravine
and wasn't bothered by the rain at all.
Bridgette writes :
It was a challenging day for OPAS painters. Many were there before
9:00 AM - set up and painting. We got a brief rain shower around
noon, some of the oil painters painted a little longer, but those
working on paper packed up and headed to Bridgette Turner's Studio
& Gallery a few blocks away. The afternoon was spent eating lunch,
talking about painting and viewing the current exhibition at the
Gallery. There was a stack of great art books to ponder over. Give
an artist a good book and there will be lots of discussions!
Members attending the paintout were: Mike Stegman, J.
Robert Reed, Jeri Ellis Platt, Chuck Harris, Gary Chaconas, Hal
Thorley, Elaine Freeman, Tamar Rudavsky, George Leach, Edie Dean,
Debra and Martin Dawson, Tom Harbrecht, Larry and Lynn Golba,
Carol Cosgrove, Andrew Mitchell, Renton Hulet, Thoma Swanson and
Host Bridgette Turner.
New member Renon Hulet writes :
Hello everyone. I'm a new member and already I have felt a
wonderful outpouring of
generosity and friendship with OPAS
members. I attended the paintout at the ravine,
but unfortunately
couldn't get there until just in time for the rain. I had just
plopped myself down in a spot only to have it turn to mud
underneath me!
Better planning next time. However, I very much
enjoyed our time at
the Turner Gallery. What an amazing pool of
talent in OPAS.
I'm overwhelmed. Thanks to all who were so kind.
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JUNE 17-24, 2008
"Chillicothe,
Yoctangee Park" - info not yet
complete
Host : Priscilla V. Smith, Director - Pump House Center for
the Arts
Yoctangee Park
Chillicothe, Ohio 45601
740.772.5783
pumpart@bright.net
www.pumphouseartgallery.com
No info has been received on this
paintout.
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July 10 - 13, 2008
"Lakeside"
in cooperation with Lakeside Association
Ottawa County :
Address :
Lakeside, OH
Phone : 419.798.4994 home; Mary's cell 419.494.4445
Email :
dziak@cros.net
Wet Paint Sale : Sunday, July 13 - 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Host : Rick and Mary Dziak -
Please RSVP to the above email
http://www.lakesideohio.com/Where2/default.aspx
for info on places to stay
One in a series of paintings by
Carolyn E. Lewis that
was completed onsite at the Lakeside Paintout.
"Morning Has Broken"
16" x 12"
Oil on Linen Panel
by Carolyn Lewis
SOLD
Click to see more on
this paintout.
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August 23, 2008
"Gorman Heritage Farm
in Evendale"
Hamilton
County
Click on photo to enlarge
Contact :
Gorman Heritage Farm
Address :
10052 Reading Road, Evendale, OH 45241
Phone : 513.563.6663
Email :
email@GormanFram.org
Website :
www.gormanfarm.org
Host : Martha Carmody, thanks for planning this for the SWO
Plein Air Painters and for OPAS!
The Gorman Farm
website has more information than one could ever share...
The farm has fields, buildings and vistas, not to mention a
great chicken coop.
It is open at the following times: Wednesday - Saturday,
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM; Sunday, 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
As to lunch...
There is a close-by Chipotles and Starbucks. Further north
on Reading Road is a sports bar people like called the Blue
Goose. And of course the MacDonalds, Burger Kings and Wendys of
the world are here too.
DIRECTIONS :
The farm is in Evendale on Reading Rd., across from FORMICA, but
please check their website for detailed directions.
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Info Placed Online as it
Comes!
"5th OPAS Plein Air
Competition - New Philadelphia"
September 19, 20, 21, 2008
Home Base New Philadelphia, Tuscarawras County
Website :
http://www.neohiotravel.com/
2008 Co-Chairs
:
Jon Browning
: 614.464.3900
jbrowning@browninglaw.us
Susi Haven-Bezaire :
shbezaire@gmail.com
JUROR: Marc Hanson, OPA
Click
for complete info
Click on the image to see the 2007 winners circle.
2007 Sponsors:
Ampersand • Judsons Plein Air Outfitters • Frame
Warehouse • RayMar Art • McCallisters Art Supply, Dayton •
Florida Frames • Prizm • Jerry's Artarama • Dick Blick • Utrecht
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October 18,
2008 - Info in progress
"Cantor's Cave, Jackson,
OH"
Jackson County
Web Site :
Address :
Phone :
OPAS Host : Kit Dailey
Canter's Cave is the home to the Annual Juried Foothills
Exhibition - this year held October 17 - 19. On the grounds of
Canter's Cave, The Sons of Liberty will provide some great
painting material in the for of a reeactment with solders in
uniform and white tents in a large green field.
The grounds are filled with large trees, a pond and an old
log cabin.
Nearby is a another very interesting location, The Buckeye
Furnace, a rebuilt pig iron furnace dating back to the early
days of Ohio.
DIRECTIONS :
Canter's Cave is about an one hour and a quarter drive from
Columbus.
Starting at I-270 South and following Route 23.
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November 2008
- Open plan me
"Plan Me"
County :
Web Site :
Address :
Phone :
OPAS Host :
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December 2008 - Open plan me
"Plan Me"
County :
OPAS Host :
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Please check back often for additions and
changes.
Weekday paint outs are scheduled by the members. Dates and times may vary.
Critiques are at the discretion of the members.
Paint outs are rain or shine. You decide if you want to come.
CENTRAL REGION:
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EASTERN REGION:
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WESTERN REGION:
The Miami Valley Plein Air Belles
Further info contact Donna Clark:
donnapierceclark@woh.rr.com
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SOUTHEASTERN REGION:
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SOUTHWESTERN REGION:
SW OHIO PLEIN AIR PAINTERS
Enjoy cost-free summer painting with the SW OHIO Plein Air
Painters. We will meet from April 19 to
November 1, 2008, on THURSDAYS
between 9:00 AM until
2:00 PM at the site indicated in the
schedule below. Come to all or to some, as you find convenient or
interesting. Many of us will paint shine or rain when picnic
shelters are available. We will not schedule postponement dates,
but will stick to the schedule. We will not meet when
temperatures are predicted to be less than 60˚ outside all
morning or there are electrical storms. For information call
Martha Carmody, hm.513-563-6351 or c.513.324.0455.
The 2008
Schedule in PDF Format
