People enjoy getting together to paint outdoors as the area we live in has many beautiful natural scenes artists can capture. CRAG is sponsoring the following plein aire events for 2024. People should bring a bag lunch and beverage. Please bring a bag for trash and remember, “Take nothing but pictures and leave nothing but footprints”.
Weekday Date Time Host Location
Friday May 31 9:30am Sally Hodge Farm – East Colebrook Rd. Colebrook (Rte. 26 to East Colebrook Rd., about 1.4 miles on right)
Tuesday June 4 9:30am Mia & Ken Former Cow Palace, now Galloping Clouds, Gray Rd. Columbia, (Rte. 3 to Gray Rd. off Fish Pond) Emphasis will be on practicing drawing/painting horses
Thursday June 13 9:30am Marty & Linda 601 Bungy Rd. Columbia (take Rte. 26 to Bungy Rd., 2 miles up on the left) Linda will serenade us with her music!
Monday June 17 9:30am Pam 51 Choquette Dr. Pittsburg
Monday June 24 9:30am Evie 941 Fish Pond Road, Columbia (off Rte. 3 4.2 miles up) Emphasis will be on painting lupines poppies with a background of mountains, but other options available
Monday July 1 9:30am Dennis 723 Bishop Brook Rd. W. Stewartstown (2nd house off Rte. 145) Emphasis will be on painting cows and water
Saturday/Sunday July 6/7 10:00am Poore Farm Rte. 145
Monday July 15 9:30am Canaan Park, Canaan, VT Rte. 114 & Rte. 102
Weather forecast for this week shows rain, T-storms, scattered showers every day until Friday, when it’s supposed to be sunny. Plein Air is rescheduled for Friday, July19, 9:30 a.m. You can may go to the Canaan Park ahead of time & sketch out your subject so that Friday you can begin to paint immediately. It is a public space, so you may go at any time. The weatherman & I apologize for any inconvenience!
Evie Moder, 603-237-5037, [email protected]
Wednesday July 24 9:30am Peggy & Wayne 53 Rte. 3, Stratford
Monday July 29 9:30am Cathy 420 Cottage Rd. Averill, VT Emphasis on painting the lake and anything else you like
Monday August 5 9:30am Kristine & Phil 91 Rte. 3, mile marker 213 Yellow house
Monday August 12 9:30am Bob Soucy Marshall Hill Rd., Columbia Emphasis on painting mountains
Monday August 19 9:30am Les & Patty Wallace Lake, Canaan, VT Emphasis on painting Lake Wallace
Monday August 26 through Monday September 2 Lancaster Fair Emphasis on painting horses and/or other livestock (chickens, roosters, pigs, cows, vegetable crops, etc.) **
Monday September 9 9:30am Village of Colebrook – meet at town parking lot and then disperse to various locations
Always check your emails the night before or the morning of events to look for changes. Email Evie for directions, concerns or questions, etc.
** Lancaster Fair will give free passes to paint & the passes are good for the whole week. However, the passes will not be good for music venues. We are asked to each donate one painting. The money raised by auctioning off the art will go towards new stables for the fair. We don’t have to paint horses, but it would be nice. We may paint any livestock. You must sign up to paint at the fair so I know to whom to give the passes ahead of time.
For more information, please contact Evie Moder at [email protected].
Plein air artists were serenaded as they worked in gorgeous surroundings at the Zarli home in Columbia.
Photo of from left to right Peggy Deyette, Evie Moder, Carol Reynolds, Mia Mia Jaworski, and Al Moder who participated in a plein air paintout at the Moder’s house on Fish Pond Road in Colebrook. The group captured some magnificent scenes on a beautiful summer day.
Photo of Janet Hart, Mia Jaworski, and Evie Moder during a plein air event at the Lancaster Fair. Thanks to the efforts of Sharon Ellingwood White, artists from the Connecticut River Artisans (CRAG) group painted at various locations at the fair. The paintings will be part of a silent auction later to support the building of new stalls at the fairgrounds.
