People have been asking about my next art class and here it is!  I’d love to introduce Plein Air | Taking Art Outside.  It’s a mini-class (about two hours of content), so the early bird pricing is just $18! For those unfamiliar with the term “Plein Air”, it means “in the open air” and refers to painting or drawing outside.  It’s a way of creating art made famous by the Impressionist artists and has grown from there.  When Jeanne asked me about teaching a plein air online class for her site, my first thought was that I was the wrong person to teach this class!  There are artists who specialize in plein-air painting, but I always remind myself that teaching rarely happens from a final destination.  It occurs on a journey and my perspective and the experience I’ve gained so far might be helpful, especially for those who want to

The original art sale of the Spring Sky Challenge Collection will be on June 2, 2023, at noon EST.  The sale will go live HERE. I think it was the last day of April and I saw that one of my Instagram friends and favorite contemporary artists, Erin Spencer, was doing a Spring Sky Challenge for the month of May.  Each day, she (and anyone who joined in) would create and share a painting of the sky.  My original thought was that my Instagram crowd might not want to see a painting posted every day.  Even having that thought made me mad at myself for caring about the shallow metric of likes.  It made me all the more determined to fly in the face of the algorithms and commit to something that was about growth, study, practice, and sharing in a community.  All of those things are better than any

I shared a few days ago about my deep dive into landscape study, drawing, and painting again.  You can read about some books and artists that have inspired me in this endeavor HERE.   On a whim, I also joined in on the Spring Sky Challenge hosted by Erin Spencer on Instagram.  A painting challenge issued on Instagram was how I started oil painting in the first place (that was the 100 Meadows Project), so it seemed a fitting way to push myself to paint landscapes daily for a month. We have had pretty miserable spring weather so far with lots of cold, rainy, gray days, so I haven’t been outside to paint as much as I would like and I’ve been painting off of photos.  Most of the photos were taken recently as I’m out and about, but a few of the photos are old ones that I wanted to