Painting in Tully, NY.

On Saturday, September 20th I drove down to the visually stunning town of Tully, NY. 

During my driving from East Syracuse to Tully, I was so inspired by the beautiful hills along the way that I decided to have the Tully's residents focus on recreating their textures and blue colors on the mountains in the background of the painting of the Community Symbolic Tree.

 

My first artist was Sonya Shepherd, and she did a nice job in adding the colorful wild flowers and the blades of grass near the tree.

 Then, Brianna Darling added the tree-texture on the hills in the background. She did so by adding little paint strokes of dark blue paint to recreate the idea of trees.

 Photographer, Deb Putman, stopped by for a quick visit and took a picture of me and Brianna working together on the Community Symbolic Tree.

My last resident was Isabella Puentes, a high school student with a lot of artistic talent. She helped by blending in the texture of the trees in the background by using a technique called "la velatura" an application of semi transparent light blue color over the little dark blue brush strokes created previously by Brianna.

It was a truly amazing and fun experience and I can't wait to continue this work on my next session at the Central Library, tomorrow!

I am looking for 3 Onondaga County residents, who enjoy painting, to get involved in the creation of the Community Symbolic Tree, an interactive art project funded by CNY Arts.
This Saturday, I will be at the Central Library on 447 S. Salina St., in Syracuse, NY and I have 3 booking sessions of 25 minutes for each participant starting at 10.30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. It's free!

What are the benefits of this project? 

Your creative energy is an essential element in the creation of this community painting, and
you are helping creating something meaningful, beautiful and lasting that celebrates our culturally rich community!

This piece will be shown along the 8 paintings based on the Best Onondaga County Trees Photo Challenge at the Onondaga Free Library during the month of March 2015. The unveiling of the Community Symbolic Tree will be on Saturday, March 14 during the reception from 12.30 p.m. to 3.30p.m. This communal painting will be donated to the hosting library and the name of each participant will be on a bronze plate next to this piece. 

Email me at mariarizzoart@gmail.com if you are interested in participating.