Posts Tagged ‘plein air’
Under the Influence
I tell you I love to paint, but more specifically I love to grab my gear and get outside and try my luck at capturing the great outdoors. It doesn’t matter what it is, as long as I’m painting I’m good. I’ve been told I paint all the time, that my paintings are just multiplying…
Read MoreAn Early Spring
I’ve been part of a little group of artists that head down to the Big Bend National Park area to paint each February now for 3 years. Nothing more than a few like minded souls getting together and doing what we come to do best. Paint If you’ve not been to this area along the…
Read MoreFrom Pleins to Peru, gearing up
An agregious spelling error on my part or a not so veiled freudian slip? If you know me at all, you know that I travel quite extensively to paint, though if you ask me, and I’m a big proponent of this, “just look outside your door” if you want to find something to paint. I…
Read MoreWhat’s it all About
“Well it’s about this long, and about this wide, and about this country, about which we are singing about…” to paraphrase Firesign Theater If you are looking to me for what it’s all about, whatever “it” might be, you are looking in the wrong place. I have no idea. I think you have to take…
Read More“Meow” means “Woof” in cat.
Let me digress. Sure I’m an artist, and I paint a lot around the land, see a lot, and hear quite a bit too. Doesn’t take being an artist to see and observe. This world is a fascinating place, and I’m happy to be here, but sometimes you’ve just got to shake your head. Just…
Read MoreA Fly Over World
I was very fortunate this year to have made my first journey South of the Equator and visited New Zealand and Australia, and as I flew I continually wondered just how much I was missing out on. Crazy to think that I would travel any other way to the land down under, other than flying…
Read MoreMeasure Once, or is it Twice…
I just came home from a two week painting trip to the Rockies with not a single sale, not a single award, and my van filled with wet paintings. Was it productive? Does that sound bitter? Okay, let me try again. Hi honey, I’m home. How was your trip? Well it was wonderful, I painted…
Read MoreThe New Golf
I heard this at paint camp this year… the Publisher’s Invitational in the Adirondacks, and then heard it again while painting last week with George Van Hook. We tossed it around, and considered some of its possibilities… “Plein air painting is the new golf”. Okay, I think I heard it during one of Eric’s morning announcements. It’s…
Read MoreWhat does your T-Shirt say?
Or better yet, what do you say? What do you say to those people who come up to you while you are painting outdoors in a park, or a city sidewalk and they stop to ask you a question? Do you pretend like those headphones you have on, is actually playing music and you can’t…
Read MoreNeed a Push
It’s been a while since I’ve written here, but it’s not because I’m not thinking about it. When I began writing that first blog I knew there was no way I could do this daily, even trying to commit to weekly was pushing my limits. This is more about pushing yourself out of that little…
Read More