Northwest of Des Moines is Jester Park, an enormous area encompassing woods and prairie and bordering a big reservoir, Saylorville Lake. The park has a golf course, equestrian center, nature center, outdoor recreation center and much more. Last summer I was part of a small group of invited artists who spent two days painting outdoors, and I posted several paintings here from that event. The paint out was intended to promote the county conservation board, which superintends it, as well as the park itself.
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| "Jester Park Prairie," oil on panel, 2021 |
One of the views at the western border of the park is a patch of Iowa prairie that also encloses a sculpture walk with full-size bronzes of various animals that inhabited the area--bison, elk, and so on. It was fun and instructive to paint the roll of the landscape, and the dozens of colors it held.
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