I submitted these paintings to the Plein Air MKE event

Submitted paintings for Plein Air MKE at St John's on the Lake.

 "Dusk on the Green"

"Garden House"

"Roman Coin"

Spain and Morocco Trip for Judith Reidy with her Daughter Anna

Written a few days ago.....


Pictures from "First Days in Madrid Spain" Link








Today, I am preparing for my trip home to the United States. As I sit watching the sunrise over the distant mountain overlooking Tangier I am writing you thinking of the many sights and sounds I have experiences in the past three weeks. The view from my daughter's salon window overlooks the old port city. Six stories below is a street across of which is an old Jewish cemetery filled with trees around which are stacked stone sepulchers marking the graves placed there hundreds of years ago...even before the United States was a nation or Christopher Columbus discovered America. My daughter's apartment is in the old part of the city where houses are stacked and streets and walkways narrowly wide through the Medina. Beyond the cemetery to the east are a few old buildings and a retired shipping port and a new city rapidly changing and growing modern apartments with amenities.


Pictures from "Followed by an afternoon and morning in Sevilla, Spain" Link








It is a strange thing to watch someone drive a donkey which is laden with burdens while the driver walking alongside is talking on the cell phone. It is a community in transition through technology. The old and the new blending together and dissolving into one another. Cars and motorized carts are everywhere in this bustling city with s few parking and traffic signs but no stop signs or stop and go lights. People just cross the street by stepping out into traffic. At corners and roundabouts which are everywhere cars just muscles their way around. Its amazing how it works as well as it does, but the system functions.


Pictures from "Crossing the Strait of Gibraltar to Tangier Morocco" Link





For me what is eye opening is how perceptionally binding yet arbitrary our rules are from one culture to the next.....even traffic laws.


Pictures from "A Day in Asilah" Link





I have so many stories and adventures to tell!










Pictures from "Thursday in Chefhaouen" Link








Looking forward to seeing you at the


Grand Opening of our


Painting and Glass Studio


on December 12, 10 am to 5 pm


at


5121 South 84th Street,


Greendale, WI 53129





(on 84th just south of 84th and Edgerton.)

Judith Reidy is in the Wisconsin Pastel Artist Fall Exhibit Autumnal Ripening at the Cedarburg Cultural Center

Judith Reidy
 in the Wisconsin Pastel Artist Fall Exhibit

Autumnal Ripening
 at the
Cedarburg Cultural Center
 

You are invited to the exhibit
Friday October 16, through Sunday November 29, 2015
 and the
Opening Reception
Friday October 16
5-8 pm

Judith's Pastel artwork

 Just Before Winter

by

 Judith Reidy

 Fall Morning

by 

Judith Reidy

Today the Shorewood Plein Air Begins

Plein Air Painting for September

New Berlin Plein Air Paintings by Judith Reidy

Honorable Mention

Rainy Day on Kelly Lake

Acrylic

Don Teffner's Barn on Grange

Acrylic

Weston House

Oil

Artists in the Garden 

Boerner Botanical Garden paintings by Judith Reidy

Pink Rose

Acrylic

Anemone

Acrylic

Celosia

Oil

Remaining Plein Air Event this coming week is in Shorewood.  

You are invited!!!!

Pewaukee Plein Air Painting

I painted in the heat.  

Steaming at the Dock by  Judith Reidy

11x14"

Oil

$225

Plein Air at the Fair Paintings

It was a great day at the state fair in West Allis. I made two paintings.

Judith painting out of the rain

Central Avenue by Judith Reidy

16x20"

Oil

Fire house by Judith Reidy

10x20"

Oil

Plein Air at the Fair on Monday for Judith Reidy

Plein Air at the Fair...the Wisconsin state fair

I want to invite you to come to the fair.....

Plein Air, French for painting in the “open air,” is new for the 2015 Fair. On Monday, August 10, the Fair itself will become the canvas for artists as they paint their way around the Fair. Feel free to watch as they create Fair inspired masterpieces. Fairgoers can support their favorite artists by purchasing Plein Air artwork after judging is completed on Tuesday, August 11 in the Exposition Center Lobby.

Corner Porch and Great News for Royal Hotel

Mineral Point, WI Quick Paint (2 hours)

Corner Porch by Judith Reidy

12x9"

Oil

It was Saturday morning in downtown Mineral Point when the horn was blown to begin the two hour quick paint which was turned in at the conclusion for exhibition.

Great News!!!!!

Sold painting of Royal Hotel

My painting made 1st Place at Milwaukee Historic Third Ward Plein Air Event 2015

Well, here is my painting Riverwalk View 12x36" unframed which I painted in the Third Ward Plein Air Event 2015!

It won First Place!  

 It also was purchased by a couple at the reception last night.  It will  be on public view thru 4pm Saturday July 25 at the Hudson Business Lounge at 301 N Broadway Milwaukee, WI in the Third Ward.  You are welcome to view it while it remains on public view there today.

Judith Reidy in Third Ward Plein Air Event Exhibition and Reception tonight July 24, 2015

Its Friday and I have finished my paintings for the Plein Air event.

Its terrific place and I had a 

wonderful time.

I created three paintings.

First one was a cityscape

 view looking north from the top of the parking garage on Chicago and Milwaukee.

The second painting I did

 from the top of the garage on Water

 looking down

 at the Water Street Bridge.

The third painting I did

 from the riverwalk off Erie Street

 one block southeast  of MIAD. 

 I had a great view of the river, the spinning railroad bridge, old grainery, and plenty of boats and water and some vintage industrial buildings.

Tonight is the exhibition and reception.

5-9 pm

6  PM sharp awards ceremony

at 

Hudson Business Lounge

310 North Broadway

Milwaukee, WI

(Buffalo and Broadway)

I look forward to seeing you there.

New Oil Painting Esther's Sunset by Judith Reidy

Esther's Sunset 

by Judith Reidy

Oil

25.5 x 21.5

framed 

$450

I have fond memories with this painting; my family was together after my mother's passing the previous week.  It sounds like one would or should be very sad.  But it was a glorious and joyous time for I knew my mother was in a better place and left us with a beauty and love that glowed in our hearts.  So like her life to us this painting glows on this cold early winter like November day at the conclusion of  the family's Thanksgiving Day gathering.

Judith Reidy's Exhibition Opens Jan 31

You are welcome to view Judith Reidy's Exhibition

Yes, please come on over and view Judith's paintings at the Greenfield Public Library

5320 W. Layton Avenue, Greenfield Wisconsin 53220.

I think that you will enjoy  viewing her plein air and studio painting in  oils, acrylics and pastel.  

Judith Opens a Shop on Etsy.....

Hi Check out my Esty Store  here

I have just openned a shop on Esty.

Please check it out and "like it" and WHILE your at it buy a beautiful painting......


go to Judith Reidy on Etsy

Working to Reduce the Unseemly Posts I'VE BEEN HACKED

Hello All,

I have been extremely frustrated with the strange posts that somehow make their way onto my blog and unto Facebook.  I  have my blog set so that posts are suppose to be monitored by me but that does not seem to prevent a hacker from posting unseemly self promotional messages.

I am changing how I post and through whom I post.  Perhaps then the problem will be scotched.

As many of you know I have had carpal tunnel release surgery  April 17, 2014 with a healing setback when the wound reopened after the stitches were removed.

As a result many of my plans for painting had to be adjusted.  I reduced my painting and teaching schedule and went on a retreat  as well as spent more time on glass fusing and reading and journaling.
 
On the whole it has been good for me to reassess and learn how to accept a new direction for my life work.

Again, I hope thank you for your patience as I work to reduce all the ichy posts.

Second stage

view my project on going

At Vivian's army lake site

A start on the painting

Winding Road on Green Bay Road

This is one of three paintings done on Green Bay Road.  I just kept thinking about the road into the mist.  What a mystery to unfold!

Another replacement painting.

Now this Red Barn at the Cedar Creek Settlement caught my eye.  I painted this across the river on Riverside Drive.

"The Old School House on Green Bay Road" is another Cedarburg Plein Air Painting Favorite

"The Old School House on Green Bay Road" is a real favorite.  I feel like I was in the "Spirit" and guided when making this painting.  The light is so perfect.  The values clear and sharp.   AND THE COLORS especially in the shade are just delicious. 
I am so grateful to be part of "The Old School House on Green Bay Road" making!!!