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Art on the Green Coeur d’Alene ID

Art on the Green, in Coeur d’Alene ID was a lot of  fun this year (2025). There was all kinds of arts and crafts along with music and fun activities. I worked at the Plein Air Booth right across from the stage on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (Aug 1st, 2nd, & 3rd). There was something like 30,000 visitors and art was tremendously present.

One of the funnest attractions for me was the amazing sandcastle. Wow! It was ginormous!

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There were many more art booths that were filled with enormous talent, like other painters on site.

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And let’s not forget the entertaining music with dancing.ArtOnTheGreen25_05

My job was to paint plein air and talk to people about doing painting outside. I will not bore you with multiple images at different stages. Here are a few examples from painting at the booth for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

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I will be looking at these to see if I should do some more finish work on them before calling them done. Anyhjow, it takes me awhile to recuperate from th crowds, heat and standing all day long and I am just now feeling rested so painting should speed up to a more normal pace soon.

55th Art on the Green

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Jessica Bryant is a watercolorist worth knowing and fun too!

The 55th Art on the Green ( AoG) Festival was a pleasure to experience. We had the distinct pleasure of being right next to Jessica Bryant’s booth making it possible to get to know her over the weekend. She is an amazing watercolor artist doing landscapes that just blow you away. A fascinating individual with so many interesting stories about traveling and painting in her life. Jessica’s beautiful brainchild started two years ago, to help with the KEA fundraising and increasing public awareness.

The Plein Air show was sponsored by both “Art on the Green” (AoG) and the “Kootenai Environmental Alliance” (KEA) non-profit. They promote, “clean water efforts” in the Lake Coeur d’Alene water drainage basin area. The booth celebrated area artists who participate in the creation of art that is created outside while experiencing the beautiful surroundings around the lake.

We were located in the middle, close to the food booths and the stage. The entertainment included great music and phenomenal singers all day. The music inspired people to get up and dance, and even some toddlers got up to dance to the music. A great family fun day for everyone.

Even though the plein air painting contest requires that I spend a lot of time in the two weeks prior looking for views and painting outside. It is worth putting up with the “sun and bugs” because I love painting outside  so much.

Each day Fanie Van (first place winner), and I did plein air painting demos, using fresh sunflowers from my garden. People were relaxed and easy to talk with and were eager to cast their votes on their favorites for “People’s Choice”.  A lot of the paintings were sold and it was a successful show all around. This will remain an event that I look forward to being a part of next year.