These gorgeous back-lit irises were in front of a window on the campus of Paul Smith’s College. I saw them several times as we hurried to the dining hall for meals or off to paint […]
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Floating
On the boat tour of the Adirondack lakes, we floated by several small islands like this one. This painting was done in the studio with a two-step process. I painted the darks with black acrylic […]
A Day in June
“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether […]
Camp Limberlost
The lakes of the Adirondack Mountains are home to fabulous rustic compounds known as the “great camps”. On the last evening of the Publisher’s Invitational Paintout, we were invited to a party at Camp […]
Adirondack Boat Tour
At the Adirondack paintout in June, I had the opportunity to take a boat tour of the lakes around Paul Smith’s College. Lower St. Regis, Spitfire, and Upper St. Regis Lakes are the location […]
St. Regis Falls
At the Publisher’s Invitational Paintout in the Adirondacks in June, 100 painters scouted the best locations within a 50-mile radius of the Paul Smith’s College campus. Lakes, mountains, old barns and historic churches attracted many […]
Ice Cream at Twilight
When I was child growing up in a small town in North Carolina, our house was hot in the summer evenings in spite of big fans in all the windows. We’d go next door to […]
St. John’s in the Wilderness
Near Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks is a small historic church, St. John’s in the Wilderness Episcopal Church. I was fascinated by the shapes and odd angles of the old tombstones. This painting started […]
Adirondack Creek
On the painting trip last month, Barbara Yongue, Glenda Keyes and I spent a few days in Vermont, then took a ferry over to the Adirondack Mountains of New York. We were part of a […]
Twilight in Blair
This weekend, the Midlands Outdoor Painters Society (MOPS) met at the home of Barbara Yongue in Blair, SC for an evening paintout. It was a new experience for most of us, painting as the almost-full […]