Cheryl Dillard

Echo Lake Autumn

5 x 7 x .5", Framed to 8.5 x 10.5 x 1"

Oil on Paper

$75

Echo Lake Autumn was painted on site while meeting with others from the Virginia Plein Air Painters group last fall. Painting on paper is a much different experience for me, and an opportunity to experiment with brushstrokes.

Artist's Statement:

Nature has been incorporated into most of my work for over thirty years.  Recently, I have re-activated my interest in both plein air painting and drawing the figure from life.  While I continue to enjoy allowing a painting to remain in its raw sketch form, I will sometimes develop them further in the studio if it calls for greater detail. There are also subjects found in nature that can call for experimentation or a new approach -these can be both surprising and rewarding.