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Comment by Karen Scannell on March 2, 2012 at 10:57

Hi Anne....I'd like to head off somewhere to this Sunday........I was thinking Saltmills direction, ......do you have any preferences??

Comment by Ann Cahill on March 2, 2012 at 8:45

Thank you Karen for all the work you do planning our paintouts.

It's a hard job trying to please everyone. Well done. If anyone would like

to meet Sunday I would love to.

Comment by Geraldine Donohoe on March 2, 2012 at 1:14

Brilliant Karen, very well planned to suit all.  Great to have a definate schedule laid out and an option for folks to suggest the 'alternative' options every other week!     

Comment by Karen Scannell on March 2, 2012 at 0:52

Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts. The year is ploughing on , and in the meantime, paintouts need to be planned. I've taken on board any suggestions that came up.

Running with

- Evey two weeks as our "Official" Paintout days.

I've made out a preliminary schedule, where you'll see that the locations are  mainly places we've been  before, and also a bit closer to our members who live further away from Wexford.

The Alternate weeks can be kept free, for other impromptu paint outs.

Here we have a facility, which will helps us get in touch with other plein air artists. If you are planning to visit a location to paint plein air, and would like company - let SEPA know. Others may be free to join you .

Comment by Mary H Hickey on March 1, 2012 at 22:53

How about Thomastown or Inistiogue on the banks of the Nore?

Plenty of restaurants and pubs.

Comment by Margaret Kent on February 26, 2012 at 9:38

For what it is worth.......I feel SEPA worked very well in the past with 2official paint out Sundays published in advance and any impromptu days sundays or weekdays added in between depending on the weather........I would be very wary of establishing too many rules and borders,I do appreciate the costs involved in travelling for some of us .......but if there were two paint outs on any given day would it be a dreadful thing?.........it is fantastic to know there is always somebody else out there who will join in at a few hours notice.

Comment by Terence Gillespie on February 26, 2012 at 0:24

As such a recent blow-in to SEPA I feel guilty about raising this hare. I guess I was just grumpy that I couldn’t get along to the early paint-outs.

My selfish view of the discussion so far is:

1)      It is very important to maintain and cherish the current established ethos of SEPA, it really is a fantastic resource.

2)      For personal reasons I can only get along to paint-outs on  two Sundays each month and I need to be able to plan for these a few weeks in advance

3)      If practical I would like to meet up with others to paint-out on a weekday, not necessarily Saturday, in the weeks when I can’t get to a Sunday session.

 Last year there was a midweek paint-out in Graiguenamanagh which I think attracted about 10-12, which suggests that there are other members who might find midweek paint-outs attractive.  

So I guess my suggestion is to have SEPA Sunday paint-outs every second week with weekday paint-outs in the alternate weeks. The weekday sessions could be either local or area wide.

Comment by Michael McGuire on February 25, 2012 at 12:37

I looked back over my blog, Karen, and we do seem to have painted a lot less frequently last year, until we got into the summer months. So, perhaps, it would be a good idea to hear from others here regarding preferences. My opinion, for what it's worth, is that we should all paint "en plein air" as often as possible, purely for personal artistic development. So if we go for a fortnightly SEPA schedule, then I would be very keen on more frequent local paint-outs.

Comment by Karen Scannell on February 25, 2012 at 12:25

Did we meet up every week last year ? i thought we did.

The Paint out Plan is in "Flux" at the moment. We need to establish what  a majority of members prefer.

We started the year with a bi-weekly set up. With short paint out days and mild weather, we just kept going each week..I just hadn't got round to putting all the dates in place.....it would also take up the whole page!

So the options are to establish a SEPA paintout:

(1) every week.

(2) every second week - which would allow for smaller groups to meet locally and post their event

(3) have a representative North and south of the Enniscorthy/  Waterford Border, which would post  an event bi-weekly ...

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I wonder should we maintain a weekly Sunday paint out. Saturdays (or any other day available)  could then be an added bonus for smaller groups who may have a chance to meet up closer to their locality.

What do members think ?

Where does The  SEPA boundary lie ?

Comment by Michael McGuire on February 25, 2012 at 10:01

I presume you are talking about the frequency of paint-outs, Terry, as opposed to considering days other than Sundays. If so, I think you have a point, as a weekly schedule would most likely result in smaller attendances. But I think what has happened over the last few weeks is just a reaction to the mild winter after the drudgery of the last two. I note on the draft schedule that we revert to fortnightly paint-outs in April and I presume that is the plan.

 

There are some of us though who would paint every day if we were "allowed" and, consequently, I think there is enough interest to get small groups of 5-6 to paint more frequently. Perhaps it would be a good idea to use this website to arrange "informal" paint-outs between the scheduled ones, subject to demand. So, for example a few members might get together to paint in Kilkenny/Carlow, another few in Tipperary/Waterford and a few of us here in Wexford. If we want to put a label on these, so as not to confuse them with the scheduled SEPA events, we could call them "informal local paint-outs".

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