"The Pink Ladies"

© Nancy Laliberte

6" x 6" oil on panel 

plein air

private collection

"Bowl of Beauty"

© Nancy Laliberte

6" x 6" oil on panel

plein-air

private collection

This summer I had the wonderful opportunity to plein-air paint at Ovans Peony Farm, located about 25 miles from my studio. It is so beautiful there! I had a great time painting (seriously, who wouldn't?!). Thank you, Michelle and Mike!   

Definitely a perk to my job - a blissful day of plein-air painting peonies!

Pretty in Pink

"Pretty in Pink"

© Nancy Laliberte

6" x 6" oil on panel
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Early last week I was able to join my artist friend Val B at her cabin on Lake Superior for a mini-charrette. The scenery around there is beautiful, but rather than be sacrificial bodies for the mosquitoes and flies, we opted to paint indoors. Roaming their property, I found one last peony still blooming. For this painting I used a limited palette of water-soluble oil colors in cad yellow light, alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue, permanent green deep and titanium white.