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<\/a><\/p>\nCOPS is an organization of local pointers who enjoy painting directly from life, mostly natural landscapes. \u201cIn 2011 I rounded up a few candidates who thought they\u2019d like to paint en plein air together,\u201d said Sorensen. \u201cNo meetings, dues, potlucks or instruction. The idea was to show up and paint, and that\u2019s what we did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPainting in the field means the artists must pay more attention to that which is in front and around them than the camera,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s all in the process and it\u2019s all good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sorensen spent childhood summers in the Sierra and after leading backpack trips in the high country, she knew she needed to paint outdoors. \u201cI love it because it\u2019s immediate \u2013 chasing sun light and shadow with paint \u2013 and there\u2019s always something new to discover,\u201d exclaimed Sorensen. \u201cIt\u2019s such a rush. The light changes so quickly, you have to fast dance the brush to get it down.\u201d She teaches plein air workshops locally and life drawing at Town Hall Arts in Copperopolis. Her work has been shown in local and Bay Area galleries, the Haggin Museum and in Mexico.<\/p>\n
Judie Cain, a native of Burlingame, studied at California College of Arts, attended numerous workshops and studied with select professionals. She has taught oil painting fundamentals and color workshops locally and in the western United States and has been represented in galleries in Washington, Oregon, New Mexico and California. She also paints in gouache, an opaque watercolor. \u201cPlein air painting is to art what Haiku is to poetry, describing the time of day, season and emotion of the moment in light and shadow,\u201d relayed Cain. \u201cPainting with the COPS group for the past three years, I\u2019ve discovered some of the most spectacular destinations in our County. After many years of studio painting, I\u2019ve rediscovered the passion and excitement that may have been missing in my works. I\u2019m more spontaneous and focused. The camaraderie of painting with like-minded artists is not only fun, but enlightening and mind expanding.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re hoping that you, too, can enjoy these incredible works of art with all of your senses, just as these artists experienced while painting en plein air,\u201d said Jan Hovey. \u201cBring your friends, enjoy a glass of wine and celebrate this marvelous group of painters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hovey Tasting Room is open daily from noon to 5:30 p.m. and until 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. For more information, call 728-9999 or visit hoveywine.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Murphys, CA…The en plein air oil paintings and pastels of the Calaveras Outdoor Painting Society (COPS) will be featured the month of July at Hovey Winery Tasting Room, 350 A Main St., Murphys. A duo of talented local artists \u2013 Sunny Sorensen and Judie Cain\u2013 will fill the tasting room walls with their original art, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,20,4,18,1,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advertising","category-entertainment","category-featured","category-life-style","category-murphys","category-news","category-wine-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Judie-Cain-en-plein-air.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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