I had prepared for hiking by cannibalizing an old backpack to put comfy straps on my french easel, and organizing my bag pretty well. It was a beautiful, peaceful state park, and the birds were singing and the trail followed a small river. My painting didn’t get far enough to share, but the experience was …
On the third day of this plein air adventure I’m on, I went down to Bay Point in Red Wing, MN, at sunrise to start a new painting. On the walk to set up, the sweetest big dog greeted me. I’ve been missing my dog, and having this girl wag her tail and lean against me …
On the second day of the plein air event, in the late morning, I set up by this scene. I painted for several hours, and then the light changed too much to go on. The next morning I got up at 5 am to catch the morning light in a different painting, and then in …
I’m on quite a plein air (painting outside) journey right now! Last Friday afternoon I drove about 5 hours to a town I’d never seen before, to participate in a plein air event as a “Featured Class Artist”. It’s been really wonderful. I’ve been staying with a delightful woman, and painting all day, every day… Even on …
May 31, 2022 I drove over to Badlands National Park in South Dakota pretty early, so I could pull over for photos as often as I wanted on the way (which was pretty often) and still get to the badlands in time to look around. The north half of the park had the bighorns and …
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Here’s a little behind the scenes story about Friends. I really, really want to exhibit with the American Impressionist Society again, so I decided to put my best effort towards that. Since most of my recent work is tied up in shows, I decided to make a painting specifically for this exhibit – so that whether …
Here’s my first painting from our photo collecting excursion to this beautiful area, up on the North-East edge of South Dakota.
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