Merle’s Challenge 2009 Three years ago, a local man named Merle handed our worship leader $100 and challenged the congregation to “grow” it with the hope of helping some needy people in the area. This man has little money and even less desire for recognition, but his generosity and dare to our church inspired the [...]
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I went out this past weekend in search of a place to paint. Sometimes that becomes the hardest part of plein air painting for me. I remembered this little pond area real close to town that is in a friends family. Its actually right behind the water treatment plant in Ashland, Ohio. It’s referred to [...]
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This was a plein air study painted last Saturday. It was a beautiful Saturday morning but a little chilly and the wind was blowing pretty steadily. I don’t have an umbrella to use yet so I didn’t have to worry about that blowing away, but i did wind up with full sun on my canvas [...]
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12″ x 9″ oil on linen, plein air, Corolla Sunrise Doug Cooper and I are on a Red Red retreat doing some planning. Our friend Tim has a beach house in Corolla, NC that he lets us borrow as a way to get away from it all to do this planning. Thanks Tim, this is [...]
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