A Saratoga Spring

There was a "paint out" in Saratoga Springs last weekend. I found out about it a day too late to officially sign up, but went and met up with a good painter friend and had a great day anyway...
It was pouring rain most of the day, so I set up under one of the portico roofs over a sulpher spring in Congress Park to paint - it was a little chilly, but sooooo incredibly peaceful painting to the sound of the rain...
Then in out of the rain for a Fantastic dinner in the Parting Glass...!

Austin's Pick

It's been rainy and cold this past week and the scenic scene has been really busy, so I've been back in my studio working on still life paintings, color studies etc. My son Austin has been wanting to try yellow peppers for some time. Not a problem, they're wonderful veggies, but Mommy had to paint it first : 0 )

Sweltering & Hazy

I did this little oil plein air sketch last week with a palette knife. The landscape is a view from our front yard. It was, as the title suggests, incredibly hot and humid and there was a lot of smoke in the air too from a fire in Canada - so between the three, heat, humidity, and smoke, it was amazingly hazy. I Love the heat - thought it was just beautiful! Certainly could have lived without the smoke though.

I was standing in the sun - less buggy that way and had my "sun visor" on my Bitterroot easel - so very useful. Different painting on the easel than the one above, but you get the idea -

Boy - this is a bit of a pain in the patootie to get things to publish in the order I want them in the post - oh well....

"Old Dogs"

Oil plein air sketch of a couple of our old outboard motors - Johnson, 25 horse in the foreground.