This was painted as a part of Plein Air Ashland. A small group of us have gotten together and done some painting around town. This was supposed to be Ashland University but as I was doing a quick look around for somewhere to paint I spotted the coffee shop across the street with great light [...]
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Painted as a part of the Creative Chateau‘s paint Ashland. I wasn’t able to paint with them because I went to church and went to my son Sam’s choir concert, “May Fiesta.” However, I was able to capture an evening scene looking toward the bridge. There was some great light on the bridge that evening. [...]
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I was supposed to be going to Columbus for a paintout with the Ohio Plein Air Society, the group that I belong to that provides opportunities to paint with others that share my passion. Because of the big snowstorm, i didn’t try to drive down there. Instead, after digging myself out I went downtown Ashland [...]
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This was painted in plein air at the Columbus Museum of Art as a part of the Remembering Russell exhibit. It has been juried in as one of the final paintings to be exhibited at the museum for a couple of weeks and then paintings will be sold at a benefit auction on Sept. 18th. [...]
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This past Sunday was an OPAS paintout event in Hartville, Ohio. It was very well organized with maps and painting locations already mapped out and permissions already granted. I painted at the Moore farm which is a tree farm and also a place to go and cut flowers. What I saw was mostly day lilies, [...]
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This is the painting I did last Sunday morning (8-2-09) while my family and I where having a long weekend away. We were staying in a house on Catawba Island. It was quite nice and relaxing. Especially the time I was able to paint. The day started with a light rain that cleared out by [...]
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These were the pieces that I painted during this past weekends paintout at Lakeside, on lake Erie. It was a great weekend and I even sold a couple pieces and met some new friends. Lakeside Hollyhocks: This was the first painting that I did for the weekend on Friday morning. Mostly this was painted under [...]
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I am happy to say that I had two paintings accepted into the Crampton Art Show up at Lakeside where I am also participating in a 3-day paintout with OPAS. The two paintings are posted below and have been posted here before. My painting called Evening Storm Front, which was done plein air at Cooper [...]
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Last week, Our new lead pastor at Park Street Brethren Church gave us a short devotional. It was based on 1 Samuel 7:12 Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far has the LORD helped us.” He was encouraging us to identify our own [...]
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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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