On June 1 and 2, I attended an event with PAWA (Plein Air Washington Artists) at Lake Crescent near Port Angeles. I drove up the night before and camped at Fairholme Campground. On Wednesday morning I met other PAWA painters at Log Cabin Resort and we fanned out to paint. My first painting was of the resort dock, with its colorful kayaks and canoes. Then I moved down the shore and painted some big rocks jutting out into the water. At 1 pm, I joined the other painters back at the resort for sack lunches in the comfy resort chairs looking out over the lake.

It threatened rain, so I made a quick watercolor sketch of Jim painting on the shore. When it began to rain in earnest, I joined Thoa under the eaves of the resort and painted the clouds on the far shore. After that, I drove to an overlook on Highway 101 and painted a bridge next to a cliff face. It was raining, but I just held an umbrella over my painting with my left hand and painted with my right hand. Awkward, but it worked.

At 4:30, I made one more painting. I drove to Lake Crescent Lodge, a beautiful old historic Park Service building, and painted the lodge while standing under a big tree. So in all I made six paintings today. Quite an accomplishment considering the weather.