RING OUT THE OLD AND RING IN THE NEW!!!!

Before we ring in the NEW, we must ring out the OLD.

What a year 2005 has been for the PAPC - SW!

PAPC - SW had its first Paint-Out on the last Saturday of April. As a group, we essentially had a 3/4 year.

We had 3 members at that first paint out and have reliably had more than that number ever since.




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Our email list (which is not our complete list because some folks are not 'wired' and receive their info via relays) is now up to 30.

We have our own Blogsite (due to the 'follow me' of Scott & Stuart): pleinairpaintersofchicagosw.blogspot.com

Thanks to Lino Angeles, we have our own T Shirts and Logo.





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Though our usual schedule is every other weekend, we have visited 17 different Paint Out Sites.

Plainfield Fishing Resort
Inwood Park
Portage Historic Site
*Morton Arboretum
*Graue Mill
*Michigan & Wacker
Log Cabin Center for the Arts
Brookfield Zoo
*Kendall College
Birdhaven Greenhouse
Pilcher Park
Isle a la Cache
Turtle Lake
Civil War Re-enactment - Dellwood Park
The Field's Nursery
Downtown Joliet -- the Library
Channahon/I & M Canal

We did five combined Paint-Outs with the PAPC (the ones marked with an * in the list).

We have painted in rain, snow and under the broiling sun.

We have been featured in 4 major events/sales: Civil War Re-Enactment
The First Annual Joliet Park District, Art in the Parks
The Field's Nursery -- Art in the Garden -- where paintings were purchased hot off of the easels.
AND where we have been invited to be the 2006 FEATURED ARTISTS.





Sergio sketching the battlefield



AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST WE PRESENTED 80 PAINTINGS IN OUR VERY OWN SHOW AT THE TAVERN CLUB AT 333 North Michigan, where we are welcome back in 2006.





BUT BEST OF ALL WE HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE AND GIFT OF EACH OTHER'S ENERGY IN OUR COMBINED LOVE OF OUR LABOR OF ART.

HOORAY FOR 2005!!!!

WELCOME 2006!!!!!!

Yours gratefully,

Rita R