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Climbing the hill
This one is testing my confidence a bit. As we make our way together towards the upper right hand corner I keep wondering why the paint is not applying itself as smoothly as it usually does (yeah, show me paint … Continue reading
7-day backup!
Seven days ignoring all WordPress posts. That will put you way behind when you finally get enough of a breather to try to catch up on your reading. And I can’t even remember what all I’ve done since my last … Continue reading
Posted in art, Cass Area Artists, exhibit booth, gallery show, landscape, museums, oil paintings, Sky Pads
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Jumping ahead (no, not the horsey kind)
The title of this post just came to me out of nowhere, but I had to laugh because it reminded me of what my biggest fault was when I used to jump horses–it was called “jumping ahead” and it meant … Continue reading
Posted in art, exhibit booth, gallery show, landscape, oil paintings, painting techniques, Poured paint, Sky Pads
Tagged art, artist challenges, exhibit booth, gallery show, landscape, oil painting, Sky Pads
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Even better than déjà vu
Déjà vu is defined as a “feeling” of having experienced something before–this last weekend was even better. It was real. Wellfield Botanic Gardens in Elkhart, Indiana put on a superb version of their always superb Taste of the Gardens event … Continue reading
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Tagged art, exhibit booth, landscape, oil painting, rewards, Sky Pads, Wellfield Botanic Gardens
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A few hours later–#23
It’s amazing how quickly I can arrive at a destination once I have a semblance of an idea of where I’m going! To see two previous versions of this painting click on the ← above the title of this post. … Continue reading
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Tagged art, exhibit booth, gallery show, landscape, oil painting, Sky Pads
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Half a weekend in (or mostly near) a white tent
I suppose not just the Midwest, but most of the northern hemisphere, has been plagued with a heat wave of some sort since late spring. It was our turn here in Michigan this past Saturday, just in time for the … Continue reading
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Weekend in a Chicago white tent
This was an art festival that I was determined to be a part of even though fate seemed to think otherwise after the windstorm the weekend before crushed some paintings and twisted some tent parts. Miraculously–or so it seemed–I was … Continue reading
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Tagged art, exhibit booth, landscape, oil painting, Sky Pads, success
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Is someone trying to tell me something?
I spent two sultry sticky suffocating days at the inaugural Valparaiso Art Festival. Which would have been fine except for a couple of problematic details—but let’s do the good stuff first. The event was in a popular location, had a … Continue reading
Weekend in a white tent
I spent the weekend perched on a director’s chair in my vendor booth in Barrington, Illinois. This is renowned horse country, but I was not selling horse paintings. Rather, I was basking in the soft light of Sky Pads. Most … Continue reading
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21, but only drinking pond water
There was one warm-ish day a week or so ago, and I took advantage of it. Normally I pour paint washes on a really hot day, around 90F so that the pigment will pull together as the paint thinner … Continue reading
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