Waldron show in December

Waldron show in December
Long time, no post.

This is the poster for an upcoming show I will be in with Wyatt LeGrand in December. Here is a link to the Waldron's site (http://www.ivytech.edu/bloomington/waldron/ ) Here is a link to Wyatt's site (http://www.legrandartstudio.com/) I'm excited to be doing this show. We will be painting all next week starting and finishing in Bloomington and working our way across the south and central parts of the state during the week. If you want to come out to paint or watch, please do. Drop me a line or head to the area and search us out. We will be making large studio work for each of the seven days as well as the plein air pieces created on site.
 

First Brush of Spring

During this past week and weekend the First Brush of Spring happened in New Harmony Indiana. It was my first time at the event and I really enjoyed it. Artist were allowed to enter work that was done from Thursday morning up to Saturday morning into a contest Saturday afternoon. The winner of the show was an oil painting by Jeanne McLeish http://www.home.earthlink.net/~burkettmcleish/. The composition was killer and the color was amazing. I don't have a picture of it but hopefully she will have it up on her website soon. 

The whole experience was memorable. I had the chance to stay and paint with Larry Rudolech http://www.rudolech.com/ and also paint with Wyatt LeGrand http://www.legrandartstudio.com/.  I got meet two artist from arkansas, Jason Sacran http://jasonsacran.com/, and John Lasater http://home.centurytel.net/Lasater/home.html that I'd never seen before. They had some awesome work that I really enjoyed looking at. Those are just a few of the amazing artist there. Check out Indiana plein air painters website http://www.inpainters.org/ for some of the other artist there and perhaps photos from the show soon.

Anyway the painting above was done from the Indiana shore looking across to Illinois. The sun was going down and the scene had to be painted. The composition and color were something I couldn't have thought up better myself with all the time in the world. I had this piece and a few others stamped for next years field to finish. This will most likely be the entry for that show.