This past weekend

On Saturday I was down at the IUPUI regatta. This event has been put on the last couple of years and they race canoes up and down the canal. They also have a paint out going on simultaneously. This is a kind of rare painting for me and it was a lot of fun to do. Typically I don't put figures in my paintings. The painting was originally larger but I cropped it down to get a better feel of what I wanted to show. There were two other artist from the southport artistry committee at the event. I'm happy to say that each of us took home an award. Nicholai Shaver (http://nicholaishaver.com/) took home the big prize and Duane King and I took home merit awards. If they put on the event next year, I've already got an idea for what I want to do. By then I should be better at painting both figures and the man made landscape with pastel.