We started our introduction
to Door County with a drive up the peninsula viewing the many, many barns and
silos and had our first cheese curd appetizer and white fish dinner, followed
by a walk to the shores of Green Bay for a lovely sunset. We started the next
morning with a breakfast of fresh blueberry coffee cake and a drive to the end
of the peninsula to Washington Island ferry, looking for likely painting
locations, taking pictures along the way, and then ate at Al Johnson’s Swedish
restaurant, which is famous for goats grazing on the roof. The goats had not been “roofed” this early in
the season, alas.
We discovered fine
galleries—Fine Line Designs Gallery and Edgewood Gallery and we were inspired
by the wonderful artists. (And later in the week the studio of friend Bonnie Paruch.) There are
numerous galleries in Door County, but visitors be warned! While there are many
galleries, most only operate late May until early fall.
Monday was our first day
painting and we chose Bailey’s Harbor on Lake Michigan and the Cana Island Lighthouse. It was fun seeing wild turkey and red
squirrels along the path to the lighthouse.
Even with ice floating in the lake, the sun kept us warm as we sketched
the lighthouse.
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| 10 x 8 oil "Birch in Bud" Available |
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| Cana Lighthouse-soon to be a painting |
A painter's life is hard.
If you’re local to the Cary area, please join us for Final Friday Art Loop which happens—guess when?—the last Friday of each month! Galleries open in the evening and provide refreshments and new exhibits.
In Cary, my paintings are available at Cary Gallery of
Artists 200 S.
Academy St.
in downtown Cary Ashworth Village. 919-462-2035 Mon-Sat 11 am - 5:30 pm.
On the coast, my works are
available at Figments Gallery, 1319 Military Cutoff, Landfall Shopping Center,
Wilmington, NC 28405 910-509-4289
