Plein air oil painting of Graves of the Unknown Soldiers

This painting was done last week the same day as the last painting.  I painted everything on location except the flag pole,  if I had tried to do it while the first layer of paint was still wet I would have made a mess of it.  I gave it time to dry and used two pieces of tape to mask out the flag pole and just painted in between the two pieces of tape for a straight flag pole.

This is at Washington Crossing Park in Bucks County. Here is a link on this historic site.

http://www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing/visit/graves.htm

Workshop with Michael Budden

I attended a plein-air workshop today at Washington Crossing Park with painter Michael Budden. It was very informative, learned alot. He finished his demo painting and it started to rain so we found a dry place in back of the visitors center to paint. The bottom picture is what I painted today. I chose the statue of George Washington with the flags along the walkway.