The activity for the monthly meeting of the Georgetown Water-media Society was plein air painting at Dunn Acres. Out hostess, Pam Dunn, and her husband Max opened their lovely restored rice plantation manor (below) and all of its gardens for us to paint in.
( Above: looking east) ( Below: looking
west)
The
front of the manor faces a series of aquatic gardens that Max has constructed
out of what was once an alligator infested jungle of swampland. Max told me that
when they bought the property, the grounds were so overgrown that it took a
bulldozer to reach the manor house. He has turned it into a series of aquatic
gardens that any public arboretum would be proud to own. (I my eyes, it was more
beautiful than most public gardens).
From
the manor house, well laid out paths and bridges lead off to the cypress ponds
which right now are lined with several colors of blooming iris. At other times
of the year, Azalea, and roses bring welcome color and contrast to the dominate
green.
In
addition to the cypress gardens, there are several beautiful waterlily and lotus
ponds.
There
were so many beautiful spots it was hard to know what to paint.I finally focused
upon a lovely little statue of a little girl sitting on a cypress
stump.
You'll be able to see the two finished paintings on my website
as soon as the paint dries enough for me to photograph them. (See also follow
on posts about plein air pain(t) ing.)
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