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 […]
Category Archives: Oil Painting
Shelburne Road
This piece was painted on my last morning at Shelburne Farms in Vermont. I was inspired by the back lighting of the early morning sun. I painted on a red background to add […]
Shelburne Cliffs
This painting was done on my second morning at Shelburne Farms Inn in Vermont. The early sun lit the edges of the cliffs while the distant hills were still covered in mist. Once again […]
Morning in Vermont
On the way to the Publisher’s Invitational Paintout in the Adirondacks, Barbara Yongue, Glenda Keyes, and I spent three days at Shelburne Farms Inn. We arrived in the dark the first night and fell […]
Sandhill Lake
This weekend I was sorting out my painting supplies and eliminating extra weight so I could put it all in a backpack. On recent trips to the mountains, I felt my equipment was heavy […]
Tranquil Moment
This weekend the About Face group travelled to Cashiers, NC, to paint. It’s always a challenge to scout painting locations and settle down to paint before the light changes. On Saturday, part of the […]
Burnsville Redux
At the Brunsville paintout last weekend, I found a sheltered spot where I had a view of a house with a steeply pitched roof and an old brick wall with an unusual curve. As the […]
Last Light
Over the weekend, I participated in the Toe River Arts Council Plein Air Paintout in Burnsville, NC along with Barbara Yongue, Glenda Keyes, Jim Finch, Mark Conrardy, Pete Holland, and Roy Pachal. We struggled with […]
Impression of Soda City
On Saturday the About Face plein air group painted at Boyd Plaza in front of the Columbia Museum of Art. We were practicing painting in an impressionistic style to promote the final weekend of the […]
More Irish Luck
The rolling farm land around Barbara Yongue’s house inspired a second painting at last week’s paintout. I used a palette knife and muted colors to capture the bare trees and tall grasses of the late […]