tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63285365062535193602024-03-15T14:57:20.457-05:00the art of Hannah C. HeyerH.C.H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06107042941243784060noreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328536506253519360.post-78848493911777649332023-04-24T16:55:00.000-05:002023-04-24T16:55:34.865-05:00Spring Solo<p style="text-align: center;"> From March to mid-April I took over the walls of the <a href="https://blueheroncoffeehouse.com/">Blue Heron Coffeehouse</a> in Winona, Minnesota.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPQVKQIj5tBTHPwcWBne73DoxbeBKVvhKU2XHwVSmnF6wc3WnFzzmqsy7dLhY1g0cmw8j5trvZtI8a344ApPyezahRVVx3FjI0RvAu7guBRtgonlMd02YipXmUUj0HXZg5DhMQ1loxI3k3VhD4F-8qURd0p29lWqm37UJ5439tegzhl852VltWz_eA-A/s4000/2023BlueHeronSetUpHannahCHeyer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPQVKQIj5tBTHPwcWBne73DoxbeBKVvhKU2XHwVSmnF6wc3WnFzzmqsy7dLhY1g0cmw8j5trvZtI8a344ApPyezahRVVx3FjI0RvAu7guBRtgonlMd02YipXmUUj0HXZg5DhMQ1loxI3k3VhD4F-8qURd0p29lWqm37UJ5439tegzhl852VltWz_eA-A/w400-h300/2023BlueHeronSetUpHannahCHeyer.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hanging the exhibit. Whew! That was a lot of work!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Blue Heron is a delightful place to visit - the menu is always changing with the seasons, always good, and I've long admired their commitment to sourcing ingredients from local small farmers, including my own family.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They have a beautiful space dedicated to showing art, and they put out a wonderful spread for the opening reception on March 3rd.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8MlOiRRK_1Lapj5F9xj0mPePHvrZfxrs2oA7ikPcfHV9wR2Z-4MN3I7nqcnjmnfdETt3YQtcYp_aU4ImVtDkSGKJ6dsaHFcGQd02f5zNQ-AZpO9fcuuh5T1Bv-7a-M1erAxcXuGmMPfVL2DOeIUI8-DWpZChU42aB9oalHxxGvTmVn4-Be71DXH4kFw/s1000/2021Spring16x20oilDandelionTimew.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="1000" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8MlOiRRK_1Lapj5F9xj0mPePHvrZfxrs2oA7ikPcfHV9wR2Z-4MN3I7nqcnjmnfdETt3YQtcYp_aU4ImVtDkSGKJ6dsaHFcGQd02f5zNQ-AZpO9fcuuh5T1Bv-7a-M1erAxcXuGmMPfVL2DOeIUI8-DWpZChU42aB9oalHxxGvTmVn4-Be71DXH4kFw/w400-h318/2021Spring16x20oilDandelionTimew.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dandelion Time; 16 x 20" oil on linen/birch. <span style="color: #990000;">Sold</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was a pretty special night, filled with meaningful meetings and conversations, and the opportunity to share the work many months in the making.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrPcMYfEnzQK1oZITH5XGv1gcYKtp76aNaqXOG373V2Fc8gFKyPQmdYGBIWa7NSGuF2gmAIjIifnoMl1HsmCZ6E8psUReOzmMERZTCDuwL_dcVjekp6MLLRNVY8RYiv4672WQHZ3GqLlK4w5w9_TUqMdh3eXM-JJSoPmmEMR8r8U-M4HPbvB1ugoVojQ/s1105/2023BlueHeronStillLifeCollectionHannahCHeyerw.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1105" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrPcMYfEnzQK1oZITH5XGv1gcYKtp76aNaqXOG373V2Fc8gFKyPQmdYGBIWa7NSGuF2gmAIjIifnoMl1HsmCZ6E8psUReOzmMERZTCDuwL_dcVjekp6MLLRNVY8RYiv4672WQHZ3GqLlK4w5w9_TUqMdh3eXM-JJSoPmmEMR8r8U-M4HPbvB1ugoVojQ/w363-h400/2023BlueHeronStillLifeCollectionHannahCHeyerw.png" width="363" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A small collection of still life paintings.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I painted this piece, a small study of Virginia Springbeauty flowers, in May a few years ago. I love these little flowers, with their star-like blooms lifted skyward in the sunshine or closed and nodding downward when the light is dim.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Xvs_0Kvt9t_vEq4TEXY26VDN0olRP58BMZW1l6qSxDuY1876lPWtpST2n9u1PJgpiv9tnSp4iiKplVG7oi9ezS4ibE27DKDXkFaEOvMA7p4w1HlIkuXl8G_Au1x9kzsDrWuvLUA7ffWK-W-7KUDgiz87dUAu7THjuWCddDDxdiOmPncuffivKgZuVw/s800/2020May5stilllife8x6VirginiaSpringBeautyw.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="605" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Xvs_0Kvt9t_vEq4TEXY26VDN0olRP58BMZW1l6qSxDuY1876lPWtpST2n9u1PJgpiv9tnSp4iiKplVG7oi9ezS4ibE27DKDXkFaEOvMA7p4w1HlIkuXl8G_Au1x9kzsDrWuvLUA7ffWK-W-7KUDgiz87dUAu7THjuWCddDDxdiOmPncuffivKgZuVw/w303-h400/2020May5stilllife8x6VirginiaSpringBeautyw.png" width="303" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Virginia Spring Beauty; 8 x 6" oil on linen/birch, painted from life. <span style="color: #990000;">Sold</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was so pleased to meet the collector of this piece, and hear the story of how she had transplanted some of these very flowers to the place she now calls home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8InE-1T06b_bSfNmdURdN6UV_6tKiYXYDSxcU32IGwyh15Zp1WxW7AgC_b-GR3xBOw8r0WYhLesvbt__YMhHaBsRIb5bd-ympV82zdAd4nLes4p0HaP2QMUDKmw-UCCVdeYMSzevQIW_CLI6FyUUVYAwZiRg_KNciRJis6uNp460v39I_VvYY9q8eug/s3618/2023BlueHeronMainWallHannahCHeyer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1852" data-original-width="3618" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8InE-1T06b_bSfNmdURdN6UV_6tKiYXYDSxcU32IGwyh15Zp1WxW7AgC_b-GR3xBOw8r0WYhLesvbt__YMhHaBsRIb5bd-ympV82zdAd4nLes4p0HaP2QMUDKmw-UCCVdeYMSzevQIW_CLI6FyUUVYAwZiRg_KNciRJis6uNp460v39I_VvYY9q8eug/w400-h205/2023BlueHeronMainWallHannahCHeyer.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The main wall of the Blue Heron exhibit space, showing larger studio works representing each season.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This piece was painted at Farmers Community Park near Winona over a couple of days in early spring, while the grass grew green, fish jumped, and leaves began to unfurl on the gooseberry brambles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlNE6MyE41HAGxUDj2snJDKL0HkfiXRKZfkUNVdEpjOvLzg48UG8TGqtvMuor0D9STyPEfmgXq518soyNRgzBAqDAkvA50pMq9hAky9CyYpYByUTkbWRHtpK8jkHhy8FZJCHi_Gb-TRq7ib3DpvFAyYv5dqGcfyxCignVNshaY0BohwnLfeHz5vTGfWA/s1000/2022April21May4pleinair11x14w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="785" data-original-width="1000" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlNE6MyE41HAGxUDj2snJDKL0HkfiXRKZfkUNVdEpjOvLzg48UG8TGqtvMuor0D9STyPEfmgXq518soyNRgzBAqDAkvA50pMq9hAky9CyYpYByUTkbWRHtpK8jkHhy8FZJCHi_Gb-TRq7ib3DpvFAyYv5dqGcfyxCignVNshaY0BohwnLfeHz5vTGfWA/w400-h314/2022April21May4pleinair11x14w.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Spring Conversations; 11 x 14" plein air oil on linen/birch. <span style="color: #990000;">Sold</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDgkRrRICPEj_7W4F-XByCYpIQwPYIsJMYrs88s8qppmBrY8rx0B7HGlBIunmBZF_mtUay1CQB6B6uSRb0La0_ul8csynQov6QvfjPsoraRgS6ygAJWGOBla_zL5aU1c1zo7xmdgVAAKKJCVotprMBuXAilRuBAWN8AspfSRFTbKvkfzhXOLTQ87abug/s3956/2023BlueHeronSmallWallHannahCHeyer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2836" data-original-width="3956" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDgkRrRICPEj_7W4F-XByCYpIQwPYIsJMYrs88s8qppmBrY8rx0B7HGlBIunmBZF_mtUay1CQB6B6uSRb0La0_ul8csynQov6QvfjPsoraRgS6ygAJWGOBla_zL5aU1c1zo7xmdgVAAKKJCVotprMBuXAilRuBAWN8AspfSRFTbKvkfzhXOLTQ87abug/w400-h286/2023BlueHeronSmallWallHannahCHeyer.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Small plein air pieces, all between 7x10 - 10x10 inches, arranged from spring to winter.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>A new studio piece, worked up from a plein air experience from this past winter.</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGOYJQB70N0J3tcnIv_caQbCpFVa0ujdiTOtlmCtCuXXdqQuNKxHGODQamojfJ0iPcUjtSAy3JJ7gveeHZJnhg_hdc6-LTJxoo9fw5gNqvUtWhJbuKW5Un_3s_wvjasK9_yS-a0YYUuhJTYwMGzIPSErJ1qbRJ0JovFgMSSIiu5uyhvfZuHIYeQOwVBQ/s1000/2023winteroil16x20MoonlightandFrostw.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGOYJQB70N0J3tcnIv_caQbCpFVa0ujdiTOtlmCtCuXXdqQuNKxHGODQamojfJ0iPcUjtSAy3JJ7gveeHZJnhg_hdc6-LTJxoo9fw5gNqvUtWhJbuKW5Un_3s_wvjasK9_yS-a0YYUuhJTYwMGzIPSErJ1qbRJ0JovFgMSSIiu5uyhvfZuHIYeQOwVBQ/w400-h320/2023winteroil16x20MoonlightandFrostw.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Moonlight and Frost; 16 x 20" oil on linen/birch. <span style="color: #990000;">Sold</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A smaller study was painted from life, out on the edge of the orchard one frosty night in early January. Snow clung heavily to all the twigs and branches, and the light from the moon, rising ever higher in the sky behind me, cast soft shadows and illuminated the mess of footprints in the snow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPtq9NOwJZ992JGy0Ae3Hvsn4DfHXuZKEqcO2IJib2SIpFo9rs_4LKRla0CrVze-yOZ2eq3nf6q21euNKzIFoFHSJf70zNTlXrEexBeBcCx1Upi1qVY6X2KUgHo_hwVKAVU0Ohurid8-mSIB3Gs2wErMcMUU2sjmKuN7Rd48h0Cdzmr1j4TM0gF2--GA/s2638/2023BlueHeronSaturday.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2363" data-original-width="2638" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPtq9NOwJZ992JGy0Ae3Hvsn4DfHXuZKEqcO2IJib2SIpFo9rs_4LKRla0CrVze-yOZ2eq3nf6q21euNKzIFoFHSJf70zNTlXrEexBeBcCx1Upi1qVY6X2KUgHo_hwVKAVU0Ohurid8-mSIB3Gs2wErMcMUU2sjmKuN7Rd48h0Cdzmr1j4TM0gF2--GA/s320/2023BlueHeronSaturday.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This piece was inspired by a night out painting in the fields a couple of winters ago.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh27anvBKkrf3mm-HIAZ_2X4iZLC82CnDNo3_VyvVbjXRb9hZxGX1KoXKGM9IdTuKiz5Zagr7krU1JdBXqxG9DC0KmCRcWuT2GaFkFrxTrFgmqwaE76KZ0iOKHPiIoByEVysHNwivpQW0mXkANzW7aXLnzZZDWFnNtjgwHUMmlyRUQLJ-yxCgsc-0H42g/s1000/2022winteroilCrossingPaths16x20w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="1000" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh27anvBKkrf3mm-HIAZ_2X4iZLC82CnDNo3_VyvVbjXRb9hZxGX1KoXKGM9IdTuKiz5Zagr7krU1JdBXqxG9DC0KmCRcWuT2GaFkFrxTrFgmqwaE76KZ0iOKHPiIoByEVysHNwivpQW0mXkANzW7aXLnzZZDWFnNtjgwHUMmlyRUQLJ-yxCgsc-0H42g/w400-h321/2022winteroilCrossingPaths16x20w.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Crossing Paths; 16 x 20 oil on linen/birch. <span style="color: #990000;">Sold</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;">The colors were unbelievable - the light from the setting sun caught the dry grasses, treetops, and tangled tracks that broke the surface of the snow. And in the east, the moonrise. I wanted to visit it again.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Many thanks to the Blue Heron, and to everyone who stopped by the night of the opening and throughout the exhibit!</p><br />H.C.H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06107042941243784060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328536506253519360.post-54632588280938840232021-12-04T22:43:00.000-06:002021-12-04T22:43:50.597-06:00Close to Home<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOO4IsWgkxs_ZzBMU2FZP6OJ8v8R14mvC2Vix8tagwPaSaAxQDpU61dKsfVOwL1ozAxw7ARvksJhgt1ecUH2Os2UbJQJaBOXeIvRcLopgKBTm5ZHgrRCg8gycihFtsZEiN5gmayZmiZbhq/s1159/Close-to-Home_Poster_11x17_FOR+WEB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1159" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOO4IsWgkxs_ZzBMU2FZP6OJ8v8R14mvC2Vix8tagwPaSaAxQDpU61dKsfVOwL1ozAxw7ARvksJhgt1ecUH2Os2UbJQJaBOXeIvRcLopgKBTm5ZHgrRCg8gycihFtsZEiN5gmayZmiZbhq/w259-h400/Close-to-Home_Poster_11x17_FOR+WEB.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Last night was the opening reception at <a href="https://redwingarts.org/">Red Wing Arts</a> of Close to Home, an exhibit of 52 paintings - 26 in oil, by yours truly, and 26 in watercolor by <a href="https://www.evansenartstudio.com/">Andy Evansen</a>. Andy's work is simply amazing, and it was a true joy to do this show with this painter and friend I admire so much.<div>The show came together over the course of a year, and the work reflects all the seasons of the year in this beautiful corner of the world that we get to call home.<div><br /><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Hannah and Andy have lived in the rural Midwest their entire lives, giving them a unique appreciation of the simple beauty of a landscape that changes with the seasons in both drastic and subtle ways. This exhibition was borne out of their desire to share their observations over the course of a year that found all of us closer to home than ever. The paintings document the seasonal shifts in southeastern Minnesota and southwestern Wisconsin, an area filled with rolling farmlands, bluffs along the Mississippi River covered in deciduous trees, and big skies. Each artist will exhibit 26 paintings, marking the transition from the cold blanket of winter to the melting of spring; the humid greens of summer to the first pops of autumn color; and the ways in which these seasons affect not only the landscape but the people who live here."</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Red Wing Depot Gallery</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">418 Levee Street</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Red Wing, MN 55066</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Open 12-5pm Monday, Thursday, Friday & Sunday, 9am-5pm Saturday, or by appointment.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> The show will be up until January 10, 2022. If you get the chance, I hope you'll stop in to the gallery to see all the work in person, and you can also view all 52 paintings through the <a href="https://redwingarts.org/close-to-home">Online Gallery</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> It was really special to see the final results of all the hard work hung on the gallery walls last night, and get the opportunity to share a little about it and have the chance to listen in return to everyone who came out to the opening. In keeping with the times everyone was masked, and it sometimes took a little longer to recognize a face or hear what was being said, but it was so good to be there together.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Below are my selections for the exhibit, by month.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>December:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhnWj3eJaNenCfTsZn_YVX8R3ooNq7xiEpCBHLDnb_9R2i8p-qxGM-lCzlnY-kM06i4faqqIcwfFfX3rg1x7xGceyJ-qsX3hqNfvN5N7qZ2Oow26zM-UBBPGknu-2osm3EZSnnZLK-rzJd/s1000/2020December5pleinair10x7w.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="717" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhnWj3eJaNenCfTsZn_YVX8R3ooNq7xiEpCBHLDnb_9R2i8p-qxGM-lCzlnY-kM06i4faqqIcwfFfX3rg1x7xGceyJ-qsX3hqNfvN5N7qZ2Oow26zM-UBBPGknu-2osm3EZSnnZLK-rzJd/w286-h400/2020December5pleinair10x7w.png" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snow in the Ravine, 10 x 7" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Standing on the shadowed north side of a wooded bluff. The low winter sun couldn’t reach the remnants of an early snow that dusted the fallen leaves here, but its warm light illuminated the neighboring hills across the valley.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>January:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0nY6WJ0iVjSKo06FvWOwoyEE0tquFfMPHva9J6-IzIC182djp-DhGdVi7PFLBmmiC0rfWZYNcK68KvC5IVXXuWC9SFd1MrNJjRQ8ApyoybVubbUsv8ANiN58SnEke9RglmOn0sJPuCdkq/s1000/2021wintercornfield12x16oilIntheMidstw.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1000" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0nY6WJ0iVjSKo06FvWOwoyEE0tquFfMPHva9J6-IzIC182djp-DhGdVi7PFLBmmiC0rfWZYNcK68KvC5IVXXuWC9SFd1MrNJjRQ8ApyoybVubbUsv8ANiN58SnEke9RglmOn0sJPuCdkq/w400-h295/2021wintercornfield12x16oilIntheMidstw.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the Midst, 12 x 16" oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This painting began as a small pencil sketch as evening fell over the frozen fields - with snow on the ground beneath my feet and in the air, as the weather moved in from the west. My eyes traced the curve of the fields, and delighted in the subtle and moody colors of the January landscape.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>February:</b></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdf9DWx4o_9NheRtoYLQ2PxOs5eQgQiEqKRRtnVOHn-P1hwry8AOWDx6KSJv2ttGt72jXiCpwKpKNMfT91CmgXwU_zuVU5f3Y67GNjGYuyoRwNaSavaTySrsWKg2WFc02uuWsKMqkE14a/s1000/2021Winter30x24CuttingANewPathw.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="801" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdf9DWx4o_9NheRtoYLQ2PxOs5eQgQiEqKRRtnVOHn-P1hwry8AOWDx6KSJv2ttGt72jXiCpwKpKNMfT91CmgXwU_zuVU5f3Y67GNjGYuyoRwNaSavaTySrsWKg2WFc02uuWsKMqkE14a/w320-h400/2021Winter30x24CuttingANewPathw.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cutting a New Path, 30 x 24" oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I’m always surprised and in awe of the colors of winter, and the brilliance of sun on broken snow. This piece began with a small plein air painting, which I wanted to develop further, and turned into a real challenge as I wrestled with the paint, trying to wrap my mind around the colors and contrasts of the scene – even lugging this piece three-quarters of a mile through deep snow and over barbed wire to the original location to paint on it from life, while the snow was still there to study. I was struck once again with how it is both humbling and inspiring to create something that seeks to echo Creation itself.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnzDuZrMIb-pf2313NTjR6WA-TpFRnZKhQp5n261sGY9Bv86Mj4q8hT1F9yRzljkL02QeaVHGJPBSO3uuq38qXcPxnORjfhKtwejXk8FyuGLjOPEhYbd89JcHFtKWPRAwhVDb-2Z7k8d8h/s1000/2020oilpainting20x24FadingGoldw.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="1000" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnzDuZrMIb-pf2313NTjR6WA-TpFRnZKhQp5n261sGY9Bv86Mj4q8hT1F9yRzljkL02QeaVHGJPBSO3uuq38qXcPxnORjfhKtwejXk8FyuGLjOPEhYbd89JcHFtKWPRAwhVDb-2Z7k8d8h/w400-h333/2020oilpainting20x24FadingGoldw.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fading Gold, 20 x 24" oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Seeking to catch that moment of golden light that makes you forget your cold fingers and toes in the wonder of it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc9rBIV5nSJZmDorQAe-LPRWHK7dhdmZhVAIySS0KabrMVHHaBr3XkoN3brihoeut9P3CB7PAUjwgMuaJ-IWmxs_xImsyCBOQZ3WiUgf_WtT5qGYwNQ6My3K1J3BBrebmKY29YVGrYOWvC/s1000/2021February22pleinair8x10w.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="803" data-original-width="1000" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc9rBIV5nSJZmDorQAe-LPRWHK7dhdmZhVAIySS0KabrMVHHaBr3XkoN3brihoeut9P3CB7PAUjwgMuaJ-IWmxs_xImsyCBOQZ3WiUgf_WtT5qGYwNQ6My3K1J3BBrebmKY29YVGrYOWvC/w400-h321/2021February22pleinair8x10w.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blanketed, 8 x 10" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Thin clouds made for softened shadows on the newly-fallen snow this February afternoon. The wind was cold but the day was warm, well above freezing, making the snow soft and sticky on the sloping hillside.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHAw89exsWpqFVanVDRj-uk57y0WfP5DEUP67zAQYo4-49e_2GIknbNISKYhzEp61YE-OXBTj0GJ2O0tGqJUMhZNj8Bv7QATASViHtLKDdFZPZK2IMcWwIKeXCa0dsfxJ9Gi_ufdycSJ52/s1000/2021FebruarySnow18x24w.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHAw89exsWpqFVanVDRj-uk57y0WfP5DEUP67zAQYo4-49e_2GIknbNISKYhzEp61YE-OXBTj0GJ2O0tGqJUMhZNj8Bv7QATASViHtLKDdFZPZK2IMcWwIKeXCa0dsfxJ9Gi_ufdycSJ52/s1000/2021FebruarySnow18x24w.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="753" data-original-width="1000" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHAw89exsWpqFVanVDRj-uk57y0WfP5DEUP67zAQYo4-49e_2GIknbNISKYhzEp61YE-OXBTj0GJ2O0tGqJUMhZNj8Bv7QATASViHtLKDdFZPZK2IMcWwIKeXCa0dsfxJ9Gi_ufdycSJ52/w400-h301/2021FebruarySnow18x24w.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">February Snow, 18 x 24" oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Revisiting this scene because one painting wasn’t enough.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>March:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7zDcoeH8CPNBVNqTA77Wp0GHkeb80qJnfmgNXQO0PRsMfpO12GBq4LPVi5WxGQIri52y2z2l8hUnpaW8AA1VDhqI7FZJvIyWg7QWicLTqoI5d3V90jNs0C-DU-LAB2RsW-eC9mv5pnEz8/s806/2020March17pleinair10x10w.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="806" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7zDcoeH8CPNBVNqTA77Wp0GHkeb80qJnfmgNXQO0PRsMfpO12GBq4LPVi5WxGQIri52y2z2l8hUnpaW8AA1VDhqI7FZJvIyWg7QWicLTqoI5d3V90jNs0C-DU-LAB2RsW-eC9mv5pnEz8/w400-h398/2020March17pleinair10x10w.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leftover Snow, 10 x 10" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Painted on a beautiful March day, with a clear blue sky and warm sunshine. Still, a little snow was to be found in the more protected corners of the pasture, and I loved the combination of color and texture, and the shapes of the disappearing snow patches.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0vaBcptazKDeF1h2RbTiL_GyvkogMvxTyQQH3p3VWnro-AALwProVwqB6U7PvSE1OV5nZJZ77TkQc4StD5SrXhtmM2A2Tz8taoZB2KivnabqyOeH0nCPF0FlpYMT5nOKKs4YzYziICi50/s1000/2021March13pleinair6x8_2InBetweenw.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="1000" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0vaBcptazKDeF1h2RbTiL_GyvkogMvxTyQQH3p3VWnro-AALwProVwqB6U7PvSE1OV5nZJZ77TkQc4StD5SrXhtmM2A2Tz8taoZB2KivnabqyOeH0nCPF0FlpYMT5nOKKs4YzYziICi50/w400-h294/2021March13pleinair6x8_2InBetweenw.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Between, 6 x 8" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A return to a place I’d painted just a few weeks prior, when it was still blanketed in snow. Now the tree-covered slope was bare, its winter-bleached carpet of leaves and mossy stones warming in the early spring sunshine.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>April:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0cAbCDbIaWgIr_iuohIaMWTCIJ0yh8G24maYVqn55gDnINNtDLsHHhE-xVVWM9WnxsKfiRWugBAE_hVEauvWVtmgoU_zyQ7NuOvwIAmyGoyB-F8i2t0dwQEFIZIRlV8RnEk24_8x_GcJX/s1202/2021Spring24x36oilAnticipationw.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1202" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0cAbCDbIaWgIr_iuohIaMWTCIJ0yh8G24maYVqn55gDnINNtDLsHHhE-xVVWM9WnxsKfiRWugBAE_hVEauvWVtmgoU_zyQ7NuOvwIAmyGoyB-F8i2t0dwQEFIZIRlV8RnEk24_8x_GcJX/w400-h266/2021Spring24x36oilAnticipationw.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anticipation, 24 x 36" oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The smell of rain in the air, as the dark clouds move over the greening fields and woodland.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqYiPDGIh7HLZlZpnolgXdJdpRJGF0rHktuEBqOW8EBEoPwnE3fnFkcW2Ev66r2rNTOySlk1crSynmAdTCiYjDAOOmEXVahiVN2q0ujSqi_AL2qfVtcd-dbFXKJSXq9RrG4HRuhuFmeTyk/s1000/2021April28pleinair8x10w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="1000" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqYiPDGIh7HLZlZpnolgXdJdpRJGF0rHktuEBqOW8EBEoPwnE3fnFkcW2Ev66r2rNTOySlk1crSynmAdTCiYjDAOOmEXVahiVN2q0ujSqi_AL2qfVtcd-dbFXKJSXq9RrG4HRuhuFmeTyk/w400-h319/2021April28pleinair8x10w.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Awakening, 8 x 10" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The landscape changes so quickly in the spring. This place that I’d painted in February and March was now veiled in the soft, bright greens of new foliage beginning to unfurl as the days lengthened.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN5hfuLUbScLb8EbnHfFc3ruYerQ_tyhLsXEYgWVUgjsPi5keyPpnYpGxyTA65MZa6ngWuXwi8IAYWYN88r0qukSwm8c8QUiyOGJ4vX21TKJWqPcGPD1YA__tKxwA9vb264KZyd7IunKCn/s1000/2020oilAprilAnvilCloud14x18w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="1000" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN5hfuLUbScLb8EbnHfFc3ruYerQ_tyhLsXEYgWVUgjsPi5keyPpnYpGxyTA65MZa6ngWuXwi8IAYWYN88r0qukSwm8c8QUiyOGJ4vX21TKJWqPcGPD1YA__tKxwA9vb264KZyd7IunKCn/w400-h308/2020oilAprilAnvilCloud14x18w.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">April Anvil Cloud, 14 x 18" oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This painting grew out of a couple of small plein air studies, taking note of the sprouting fields and watching the formation of a distant storm.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>May:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAMIPyKEFxuT4k7b2jSALCZ_tPv4R49Man4LeNkFbLT7RH9tW9LYeLp1zKDG_RdLZn2WgG8u6SjWekVt6nen3jPrZ73m1NhS1tjUBn41uIdN8T9B2wk-VD0bi4MjKIuTaXj2127t24LMxV/s1000/2021Spring16x20oilDandelionTimew.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="1000" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAMIPyKEFxuT4k7b2jSALCZ_tPv4R49Man4LeNkFbLT7RH9tW9LYeLp1zKDG_RdLZn2WgG8u6SjWekVt6nen3jPrZ73m1NhS1tjUBn41uIdN8T9B2wk-VD0bi4MjKIuTaXj2127t24LMxV/w400-h318/2021Spring16x20oilDandelionTimew.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dandelion Time, 16 x 20" oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I confess: I love dandelions. Call them an herb, a wildflower, or a weed, they are one of the brightest marks of May.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh70VE48pS6GRvzPFfWoYDSKqEcT1EVC3gbCinZKFHlsy-skRpGWs-K7QlXOK-S3b4o2DR94huv3H8oH5fLUvk8Sil316edOSC8n9q-XiiDsV4nZuzc5DDtOdz0BOnTKHkgO7vX7ssyC3io/s1000/2020May14pleinair12x16TheseThreew.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="1000" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh70VE48pS6GRvzPFfWoYDSKqEcT1EVC3gbCinZKFHlsy-skRpGWs-K7QlXOK-S3b4o2DR94huv3H8oH5fLUvk8Sil316edOSC8n9q-XiiDsV4nZuzc5DDtOdz0BOnTKHkgO7vX7ssyC3io/w400-h297/2020May14pleinair12x16TheseThreew.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These Three, 12 x 16" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">“Now abide faith, hope, charity, these three…” In May 2020, in the midst of so much trouble and wrong, I took some time to visit these beautiful river bluffs, decked out in their spring greens, along Highway 61. The most distant bluff is named Faith, the middle is Hope, and of course “the greatest of these is Charity.” (1 Corinthians 13:13)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>June:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gTHa2p6NBsO8uXgLXEcFuSUcq32GCZ-U57g2z0i-CRFahUSL-PVx1sYfS70XdpFXKXwy9Qqr9WzPjcg8ILYcE10tiR_qOkMfz1hn79EPfW8DyJEe21GwQX5renduJcjKgC9bzdX3yFTG/s1274/2021June19pleinair10x16RWPAw.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1274" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gTHa2p6NBsO8uXgLXEcFuSUcq32GCZ-U57g2z0i-CRFahUSL-PVx1sYfS70XdpFXKXwy9Qqr9WzPjcg8ILYcE10tiR_qOkMfz1hn79EPfW8DyJEe21GwQX5renduJcjKgC9bzdX3yFTG/w400-h251/2021June19pleinair10x16RWPAw.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lower Bluff Trail, June; 10 x 16" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Painted late one afternoon along the Lower Bluff Trail at Frontenac State Park.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Tall trees, leaf litter, wild ginger.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">While painting, I was distracted by noises behind me and saw, through the leaves, a family of foxes playing among the rocks and fallen trees. One little guy ventured pretty close before noticing me and dashing away.</div></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT1N911GuOPyMmeiFuYdF-ey1POmhQnPc3yi9PSBLHX9znPdMHBilcYG859MGo8NJzLof-AAlGeCu5GcKYPxFKqjjbDVNVx1aauJYcb6lMaTlcGII2_3RJAMtdQ4U1gZUuUxpN1uyzrGAc/s1000/2021June22pleinair10x10w.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT1N911GuOPyMmeiFuYdF-ey1POmhQnPc3yi9PSBLHX9znPdMHBilcYG859MGo8NJzLof-AAlGeCu5GcKYPxFKqjjbDVNVx1aauJYcb6lMaTlcGII2_3RJAMtdQ4U1gZUuUxpN1uyzrGAc/w400-h400/2021June22pleinair10x10w.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over the River, 10 x 10" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A hot summer day, looking out over the river towards Wisconsin, from the north side of Barn Bluff/He Mni Can.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgamLboFpy_k7RZUb1CB6N7Mc59ejWhjKKpjWXIQO5BdkAIM-UnXSxkZIukG_uJJ5uXtkbYhWcQp373Gzhyphenhypheny3oYJylrVMGmNCj-ttChWlsyQhy4xfahWlqEmuVyFxqpOkwe99I5t6NqtM1b/s1000/2021Summer18x24oilFirefliesw.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="1000" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgamLboFpy_k7RZUb1CB6N7Mc59ejWhjKKpjWXIQO5BdkAIM-UnXSxkZIukG_uJJ5uXtkbYhWcQp373Gzhyphenhypheny3oYJylrVMGmNCj-ttChWlsyQhy4xfahWlqEmuVyFxqpOkwe99I5t6NqtM1b/w400-h299/2021Summer18x24oilFirefliesw.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fireflies, 18 x 24" oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Walking out in the fields on a summer evening, eyes adjusting to the deepening darkness, still able to pick out the soft colors of the fields in the dim light, and finding a dazzling display – a humble beetle, and his innumerable companions, lighting up the night.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>July:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkm-G7TIQDsVPvryaiQSMtHf0VucQ2TIQeRI_tq881WbZIKNNqQOYBj1P4zmTCJ-woO7YHi94KCEp6Z3VwLhyFQKLmQV-9L3zNZXzuyj7eoujIu6j4XBnW3bMv6d9rTGdTOvu8YJDBK-Rz/s1000/2021July8pleinair14x18TheHaybarnDoorwayw.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="797" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkm-G7TIQDsVPvryaiQSMtHf0VucQ2TIQeRI_tq881WbZIKNNqQOYBj1P4zmTCJ-woO7YHi94KCEp6Z3VwLhyFQKLmQV-9L3zNZXzuyj7eoujIu6j4XBnW3bMv6d9rTGdTOvu8YJDBK-Rz/w319-h400/2021July8pleinair14x18TheHaybarnDoorwayw.png" width="319" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Haybarn Doorway, 14 x 11" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I’ve always loved the view through the open doorway of this barn. These doors would often be open on the long summer days when it was haymaking time, letting a cooling breeze, if there was one to be found, make its way into the hot, dusty haymow where we would stack the bales of new hay, filling the farthest corners in preparation for the cold winter to come.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXhR3ras0-TmhwtXPtxSGnm7Sboj1jINmupHUBTKWg7kTrit9J150FnuAR7Hbb34yVG4PjyrMdR3GkaBs4sTT4MafWmi5Q7GSRCpZONMoP0qdY_MqdkwKa2luhpyWfbxo3HtNM4ZdfjJ0j/s1198/2021Summer24x36oilSummerFieldsw.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1198" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXhR3ras0-TmhwtXPtxSGnm7Sboj1jINmupHUBTKWg7kTrit9J150FnuAR7Hbb34yVG4PjyrMdR3GkaBs4sTT4MafWmi5Q7GSRCpZONMoP0qdY_MqdkwKa2luhpyWfbxo3HtNM4ZdfjJ0j/w400-h268/2021Summer24x36oilSummerFieldsw.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Summer Fields, 24 x 36" oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>This painting began as a sketch on a walk through the fields on a late afternoon in mid-summer. It was a good day for clouds, rich in color and form in the eastern sky. The grain field almost seemed to glow in the light of the sinking sun, while the bird chatter began its evening crescendo.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>August:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcgN4KGDpLMHa5K6V6U4_gLmZTtK0AosRjjWIXYMqsnEjKEFMcIDH-ULKZp0ps6FWU3X5nDur75Jx9ZY34uSZ_ljv7nZCtlwON1BVwNj_X_TlpdPNVMkqVCRqzrbc0ogsNxeH37zZ-KFqg/s1000/2021August28pleinair8x10w.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcgN4KGDpLMHa5K6V6U4_gLmZTtK0AosRjjWIXYMqsnEjKEFMcIDH-ULKZp0ps6FWU3X5nDur75Jx9ZY34uSZ_ljv7nZCtlwON1BVwNj_X_TlpdPNVMkqVCRqzrbc0ogsNxeH37zZ-KFqg/w400-h320/2021August28pleinair8x10w.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the Line, 8 x 10" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>My favorite way to dry laundry, though it sometimes gets an extra rinse with an unexpected summer shower, or an extra wash because birds just don’t care.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9EcTbxht_zYanVFkfTpCje-sjLuFyYa81eKhqvNofZBhVA4qGOqIR9AlOJlGZr80tlX74UA45GzMS1cjf167tua0_bZmZRSkJnp5e8__53OpwOwjqe5At4Y8qEdZzW8YFVx13owT3IG3/s1000/2021August30pleinair10x10HarvestingtheEarlyApplesw.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9EcTbxht_zYanVFkfTpCje-sjLuFyYa81eKhqvNofZBhVA4qGOqIR9AlOJlGZr80tlX74UA45GzMS1cjf167tua0_bZmZRSkJnp5e8__53OpwOwjqe5At4Y8qEdZzW8YFVx13owT3IG3/w400-h400/2021August30pleinair10x10HarvestingtheEarlyApplesw.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harvesting the Early Apples, 10 x 10" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Painted on a hot and humid August day, while trying to fit into the tiny patch of shade I’d found. The early varieties of apples were being harvested: off the trees and into the heavy canvas picking bags, gently emptied into wooden crates, and hauled back home, for market and sauce and snacks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>September:</b></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXIguB4q0_pGE2UYPptf7i9Vek-cfxWvRb7_hseJd8CC_yT5mfNHf-zhIV8QiAW11xdkQvUyOfcl7LTFMzcYXdEcbF4wjZMq6uTRqF2ilm6th8Rtz41u_wdhaqdAAPLEq2ixPA6KAbRjfm/s1000/2021September27-28pleinair10x8SquashPatchw.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="815" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXIguB4q0_pGE2UYPptf7i9Vek-cfxWvRb7_hseJd8CC_yT5mfNHf-zhIV8QiAW11xdkQvUyOfcl7LTFMzcYXdEcbF4wjZMq6uTRqF2ilm6th8Rtz41u_wdhaqdAAPLEq2ixPA6KAbRjfm/w326-h400/2021September27-28pleinair10x8SquashPatchw.png" width="326" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Squash Patch, 10 x 8" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The harvest continues. I loved the way the evening light hit the barn and trees, just beginning to show their fall colors, and all the fat little squashes just waiting to be gathered in.</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHtXOya_HPZnHgwHuUMTkBSQL3e-NjK3e4LuJBFT8zj1aaNLLFmQJCc4GaPldxVNDPPoJl83WGLlOa4rZamsCaQ_9CUKmiLuxtsGsJy1DxQN7UYGVZmMd0hQs-byURtUu3Ib_bK2hfaSSe/s1000/2021September30pleinair10x10w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHtXOya_HPZnHgwHuUMTkBSQL3e-NjK3e4LuJBFT8zj1aaNLLFmQJCc4GaPldxVNDPPoJl83WGLlOa4rZamsCaQ_9CUKmiLuxtsGsJy1DxQN7UYGVZmMd0hQs-byURtUu3Ib_bK2hfaSSe/w400-h400/2021September30pleinair10x10w.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">September Woods, Color Study; 10 x 10" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Painted in among young maples and old oaks, hoping the falling acorns wouldn’t land on my head or hit my painting, studying the fall color - so vibrant, yet earthy – in this familiar corner of the woods.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>October:</b></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcHA6IgUgx1VrWanHC9HeMTBCMLMT1Hl3aJPDHwNw0KTspIdMVvxfHcs0nhhV8DLP9AjUsWN2qnM4Fh1zTw6lgdkA9KeIvUAuUuYlbCo463o3lOXyUs2tK1jVQwC5zx9TUjXY9J_c4JtGO/s1000/2021October1pleinair16x12CloudedSunsetw_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="754" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcHA6IgUgx1VrWanHC9HeMTBCMLMT1Hl3aJPDHwNw0KTspIdMVvxfHcs0nhhV8DLP9AjUsWN2qnM4Fh1zTw6lgdkA9KeIvUAuUuYlbCo463o3lOXyUs2tK1jVQwC5zx9TUjXY9J_c4JtGO/w301-h400/2021October1pleinair16x12CloudedSunsetw_2.png" width="301" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clouded Sunset, 16 x 12" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Green hay fields, the rusty reds of the trees on the edge of the woods, and the subtle majesty of a clouded sunset.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6HQlcDsKb2VRbAu_pRY3xGaoZ4vVkkQrOASmzsSLvp-sI5lFhaJhBdMhA3L6I4-2kZneEZDws6GdoUnGJzGTdStHQ8WcJ2ODZfesBMVWwJY4PwLVyMtGXcVM5lyhEq2Vr7glHviIg81we/s1002/2021Autumn24x24oilAQuietTransformationw.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1002" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6HQlcDsKb2VRbAu_pRY3xGaoZ4vVkkQrOASmzsSLvp-sI5lFhaJhBdMhA3L6I4-2kZneEZDws6GdoUnGJzGTdStHQ8WcJ2ODZfesBMVWwJY4PwLVyMtGXcVM5lyhEq2Vr7glHviIg81we/w399-h400/2021Autumn24x24oilAQuietTransformationw.png" width="399" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Quiet Transformation, 24 x 24" oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Painted from a field study done on a day in October. The sun couldn’t quite clear the clouds, and the quiet day held occasional rain drops and sounds of distant thunder. The old pasture was a tangle of green grass and dried goldenrod gone to seed, and the leaves of the trees continued their persistent shift to their autumn hues.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>November:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV4CVCr9Y8Ev9WS7uviIYlWuw-aERZ5BHequGBPSdizgCUNNWZ3CRFJPLdShHXKkXpthJNKbkkJFeSab4c0SytP6NZTXSdku6fQyRC62twHQh2FgwDUot9o3x4LZMmo4ft041NzZsUTvjw/s1000/2020NovemberSkyDrama24x24oilw.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV4CVCr9Y8Ev9WS7uviIYlWuw-aERZ5BHequGBPSdizgCUNNWZ3CRFJPLdShHXKkXpthJNKbkkJFeSab4c0SytP6NZTXSdku6fQyRC62twHQh2FgwDUot9o3x4LZMmo4ft041NzZsUTvjw/w400-h400/2020NovemberSkyDrama24x24oilw.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">November Sky Drama, 24 x 24" oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One night last fall, before the frost and early snows had seeped all the green from the late autumn landscape, there was a brilliant sunset to the west. But somehow the softer glow in the northeast is what captured my attention, in the clouds looming large over the contour fields and bare trees of the woods.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDllYnTAbhOx1oOD43pP7pO46D-BVuB66N-19oZR0VxQEvjQ2nI5kb1fxXaOJWX11kSe1RBH1vgVSdyRpx2Uw5sZPNu78CjlkMvx6RPrFQb3i0tH0jqI5P2_TqJsDQ4sk1euh2s5eKgt5F/w400-h400/2020November20pleinair10x10w2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">November Light, 10 x 10" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>In the woods. The north wind in the treetops, the late November chill creeping up from the leaf-covered ground, and the warm light of the westering sun catching the trunks of the tall trees and casting shadows against the steep hillside.</div><br /></div></div></div></div>H.C.H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06107042941243784060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328536506253519360.post-48179599216680366882021-02-12T00:17:00.003-06:002021-02-12T11:16:37.757-06:00Wanderings<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: center;">Opening February 13th, 2021</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A show of fields and flowers, most painted from life, and a few worked up from studies. A journey through the seasons.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtAbBrjt6dGOBfxVr6kKHXngK5LBJXT8OiOSsC2IrlRWGqUjRh13eSA33ZR2-NR0Q0iXWVO2QmoCio_fkrZcSKj6zFkqhzlRBNTSjfageUGgqgzdjor_J0GPjfwsh-gXVi5VryZ-51CYU-/s1242/2021FrameworksShow.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1242" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtAbBrjt6dGOBfxVr6kKHXngK5LBJXT8OiOSsC2IrlRWGqUjRh13eSA33ZR2-NR0Q0iXWVO2QmoCio_fkrZcSKj6zFkqhzlRBNTSjfageUGgqgzdjor_J0GPjfwsh-gXVi5VryZ-51CYU-/w400-h309/2021FrameworksShow.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Many of these paintings were done in the last year, and as I sorted through them, selecting work for this show, I was brought back to the moments in which they were created. They were moments of grace, however hectic or anxious or troubled the times were in which they were set.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihvqMN-BM_Q34CEHVYp2ZKCjQ-7osRX6Ec3kZESGYw48T-wi5d4mYNkRplsXhsVn0t3d4UWX1gV9h5ctAGvdp7MmmmAGKpS5yRD2QZ7pzz-iV_CCxIXgvfSAiL_ChaIyrs3E-ACDbidyZW/s2048/2021FrameworksSoloShowSample-HannahCHeyer.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2048" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihvqMN-BM_Q34CEHVYp2ZKCjQ-7osRX6Ec3kZESGYw48T-wi5d4mYNkRplsXhsVn0t3d4UWX1gV9h5ctAGvdp7MmmmAGKpS5yRD2QZ7pzz-iV_CCxIXgvfSAiL_ChaIyrs3E-ACDbidyZW/w400-h295/2021FrameworksSoloShowSample-HannahCHeyer.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">A sample of the pieces in the show.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A painting, or a moonrise or a frost-wreathed tree, doesn't fix anything in the world.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But in looking, and in creating,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in noting the good, beautiful, true,
and excellent,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">we can fulfill one small thing we're called to do - to
"think on these things" - and there is power and peace in that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdUfbyoD7fP2LOMreZoStB8OoXnWyKoTSytip5hFAW6LfSnb8WLn2eDjyjDgkiI3Z-ZYZU8_llBY0tzIIGIfiioIvmX_68MOS1sakU_KZPsqJUqbAfCeIEMyvhBL5YFvp5X_ICF1pIUCGt/s1276/2021FrameworksShow2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="986" data-original-width="1276" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdUfbyoD7fP2LOMreZoStB8OoXnWyKoTSytip5hFAW6LfSnb8WLn2eDjyjDgkiI3Z-ZYZU8_llBY0tzIIGIfiioIvmX_68MOS1sakU_KZPsqJUqbAfCeIEMyvhBL5YFvp5X_ICF1pIUCGt/w400-h309/2021FrameworksShow2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And these pieces have the chance to do a little more besides:</div><div style="text-align: center;">Frameworks is generously donating a portion of the proceeds to a local organization working to support single-parent families in the area. I'm happy to have the opportunity for my work to play a small part in that!</div><div style="text-align: center;">The exhibit will be available for viewing in person during gallery hours, and online</div><div style="text-align: center;">February 13 - March 27, 2021</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div>Frameworks Gallery </div><div>2022A Ford Parkway</div><div>St. Paul, MN 55116</div><div><a href="https://www.frameworks-gallery.com/shop">frameworks-gallery.com</a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on these things. </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Philippians 4:8</span></i></div><p></p>H.C.H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06107042941243784060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328536506253519360.post-29001049898531931132021-02-11T15:20:00.000-06:002021-02-11T15:20:26.942-06:00New Year<p> January.</p><p>The new year started off with nights of fog and days of frost - more specifically, rime ice - coating every blade of grass that stood above the snow and every twig and clinging leaf on the trees.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpUemm04nihqpSIk9lR7t_dYfhcJ2cXZXBBS9WOOufu6CIRjUvjA8-isnR7WKm78jfznryCS7T6t1niotop6UoIeeZoxVsT__mhPVrFIeCyOzNlusl8ytZGVS1jge3g0olqvPeSG1aYrD3/s800/2021January1pleinair8x10w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="800" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpUemm04nihqpSIk9lR7t_dYfhcJ2cXZXBBS9WOOufu6CIRjUvjA8-isnR7WKm78jfznryCS7T6t1niotop6UoIeeZoxVsT__mhPVrFIeCyOzNlusl8ytZGVS1jge3g0olqvPeSG1aYrD3/w400-h319/2021January1pleinair8x10w.png" width="400" /></a></div>January 1, 2021: A short color study in the orchard before dark. 8 x 10" plein air oil on linen/birch.<div><br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrsagDKkE5eRZyqCI2cya9hshl06nf_EpYLOq-U2Hf_oxjv8E4fOZnay4VU9-jnL5P5Z2jij5oqpgefCjCyYTBDe7VcQpBiLBboKTTbLG40VXEUthabmYRvKKnjsVuyA58WWDy4_MbJHrq/s1000/2021January3pleinair9x12RimeTimew.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="1000" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrsagDKkE5eRZyqCI2cya9hshl06nf_EpYLOq-U2Hf_oxjv8E4fOZnay4VU9-jnL5P5Z2jij5oqpgefCjCyYTBDe7VcQpBiLBboKTTbLG40VXEUthabmYRvKKnjsVuyA58WWDy4_MbJHrq/w400-h299/2021January3pleinair9x12RimeTimew.png" width="400" /></a></div>January 3rd: "Rime Time". The colors and textures of the icy trees and landscape were enchanting. The sky shifted from moody grey to a soft yellow as the sun struggled to clear the clouds. 9 x 12" plein air oil on linen/birch. <i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">Sold.</span></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQVoqNyXDZ-mPT7uR5_ZClUv4zZTw6I1cJL8jeqB1MHp39pQxjhPJNRp8JTN2_pV5A8LkRNQ-3GR6G5dU_MlgnDjU6nQM_8uN7TsGFe741DQMn9E6OqFEb_7VklvOgjz9ncsVJxuh2Wtc8/s801/2021January4-5pleinair10x10w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQVoqNyXDZ-mPT7uR5_ZClUv4zZTw6I1cJL8jeqB1MHp39pQxjhPJNRp8JTN2_pV5A8LkRNQ-3GR6G5dU_MlgnDjU6nQM_8uN7TsGFe741DQMn9E6OqFEb_7VklvOgjz9ncsVJxuh2Wtc8/w399-h400/2021January4-5pleinair10x10w.png" width="399" /></a></div>January 4th: Standing under the trees, trying to catch something of the atmosphere and contrasts. The old birch trees in the foreground stood out sharply from the softened form of the frosted trees of the woods behind. The night was warming, and the frost began to fall from the branches. I returned the following night to do some small adjustments just before dark. 10 x 10" plein air oil on linen/birch.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsi95WxGfRN1Ya1wVNvuBCr_Rk1WwbDMQ3dGcx0JBK6XVIy5l4n60FtwsnQGwCGyICpnUCjhxykAk_M14nlgTXBTRC1t5ObV2iNoQpBtsOsy8vyUCIZsxqEbQH0OrtOYekfQGTGaJ7rbYF/s1000/2021January10pleinair14x11w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="789" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsi95WxGfRN1Ya1wVNvuBCr_Rk1WwbDMQ3dGcx0JBK6XVIy5l4n60FtwsnQGwCGyICpnUCjhxykAk_M14nlgTXBTRC1t5ObV2iNoQpBtsOsy8vyUCIZsxqEbQH0OrtOYekfQGTGaJ7rbYF/w315-h400/2021January10pleinair14x11w.png" width="315" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>January 10th: A damp wind was blowing from the west across the fields and pasture. The snow-capped corn crib was nearly hidden among the branching willows and aged maples of the farmstead. A study in subtle color shifts. 14 x 11" plein air oil on linen/birch.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw3wK8tZEXPezs2rr7LJSTW9fs7UbXDO4H7GCQUPki70HENKudzKhVCBomGTnUe_n5M-l-rWzX465ecbxyu7l4tTPxX-55nEkMYl4Ed-pENHUiWDaZrHxexQZKiWH5KD51UrzxX4DCSn0I/s825/2021January12pleinair5x7w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="825" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw3wK8tZEXPezs2rr7LJSTW9fs7UbXDO4H7GCQUPki70HENKudzKhVCBomGTnUe_n5M-l-rWzX465ecbxyu7l4tTPxX-55nEkMYl4Ed-pENHUiWDaZrHxexQZKiWH5KD51UrzxX4DCSn0I/w400-h290/2021January12pleinair5x7w.png" width="400" /></a></div>January 12th: A small study of a brilliant winter sunset! It was magnificent. 5 x 7" plein air oil on linen/birch. <i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">Sold.</span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0cMkuvej7dEM34slKv7deAjuokr-akxJIzGA-D5JFsG55Hbaf81wGWzIDPymYPOYi9B1YxA6nbuSU80UdUv7hexngjbPqM1lfnw7yfrlCZ1bOgyLxXc7YC7XNnJZkVQZalhDOKOUeKQSU/s1000/2021JanuarySunset14x18oilw.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="1000" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0cMkuvej7dEM34slKv7deAjuokr-akxJIzGA-D5JFsG55Hbaf81wGWzIDPymYPOYi9B1YxA6nbuSU80UdUv7hexngjbPqM1lfnw7yfrlCZ1bOgyLxXc7YC7XNnJZkVQZalhDOKOUeKQSU/w400-h306/2021JanuarySunset14x18oilw.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As I walked home after painting, I kept turning around to watch the sky, watching the colors change and deepen. This was my attempt to recapture my impression of it back home, in studio, going from field sketches and memory. 14 x 18" oil on linen/birch. <i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">Sold.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGpffuim2t_gbd-ptFU40WIUTkEFMGeEc63eiZUkf_5KPCji-171XcubEbXPqaeplCH21LV68q9JUboW8mbOR9y7bPFaaoNedu0lwY16yKnk-IqD0nzP431iQPFP1s4QtoQuyr3dlGyRxw/s818/2021January18pleinair7x5w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="818" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGpffuim2t_gbd-ptFU40WIUTkEFMGeEc63eiZUkf_5KPCji-171XcubEbXPqaeplCH21LV68q9JUboW8mbOR9y7bPFaaoNedu0lwY16yKnk-IqD0nzP431iQPFP1s4QtoQuyr3dlGyRxw/w294-h400/2021January18pleinair7x5w.png" width="294" /></a></div>January 18th: A rough little snow study. I continue to be amazed by all the colors of "the white stuff", depending on weather and time of day. This was just about dusk, the soft light of sunset reflected in the eastern sky and tracks in the hillside snow. <i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">Sold.</span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh7vKIkt9k9rMgIA6xfSsr2opoIT9As-OJZHB_utb4dHJKPrhZ-TuElKjAlwcb1cLNceJfGvGowEQJvkXwdQmWbl3MktgCoiUNw0yPViZpss7Oa3tNUtR35Ym_Y3vrOurKzHVzcoqvJ-td/s1000/2021January22_26pleinair10x8w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="825" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh7vKIkt9k9rMgIA6xfSsr2opoIT9As-OJZHB_utb4dHJKPrhZ-TuElKjAlwcb1cLNceJfGvGowEQJvkXwdQmWbl3MktgCoiUNw0yPViZpss7Oa3tNUtR35Ym_Y3vrOurKzHVzcoqvJ-td/w330-h400/2021January22_26pleinair10x8w.png" width="330" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">January 22nd (and 26th): Searching for a place out of the wind, wandering in the woods, I found myself at this old culvert, half caved-in, a remnant of an old road now overgrown in trees. The afternoon sunlight cast strong shadows, and though the air was frigid, the warmth of the light reminded me that spring is not far off. 10 x 8" plein air oil on linen/birch.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv-Mc4esMemhP8IIV84agjxo9w5s8tbAqDiFk6gQhm-R-K8lchNDkvlQp5H8-03Zjg3BH0koeGHqoFNr_JEtvAxxTJFIjBZK8PxjoUn-IJ4YfgpH8a1n8wHrcimZ10bNqXsQe6kJR2RXWp/s800/2021January25pleinair8x6w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="625" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv-Mc4esMemhP8IIV84agjxo9w5s8tbAqDiFk6gQhm-R-K8lchNDkvlQp5H8-03Zjg3BH0koeGHqoFNr_JEtvAxxTJFIjBZK8PxjoUn-IJ4YfgpH8a1n8wHrcimZ10bNqXsQe6kJR2RXWp/w313-h400/2021January25pleinair8x6w.png" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">January 25th: Another evening snow study. The sky was heavy with clouds, and I admired the slight variations in the whites of the snow on the slopes of the fields from the more shadowed foreground to the distant hillside. 8 x 6" plein air oil on linen/birch.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0SLiUDjgGni6-p6z0dhquiVGz8-B7JuAYoK-OLNDyqFGxVQXrx9mbPxnRDb-1UwW2ExsJWg00xMBFERjKG8fTDnoPLLOIUGqKZlfxW-e6dR6EptlJz1oDshW0_GXuGP0wfPEp8i3CwOZk/s1000/2021January27pleinair7x10w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="1000" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0SLiUDjgGni6-p6z0dhquiVGz8-B7JuAYoK-OLNDyqFGxVQXrx9mbPxnRDb-1UwW2ExsJWg00xMBFERjKG8fTDnoPLLOIUGqKZlfxW-e6dR6EptlJz1oDshW0_GXuGP0wfPEp8i3CwOZk/w400-h280/2021January27pleinair7x10w.png" width="400" /></a></div>January 27th: Moonrise in a clear sky. I loved how rich the colors were as the sun set to the west and shone its light on the broken snow and rise of the hill. 7 x 10" plein air oil on linen/birch. <i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">Sold.</span></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9wYqC7vOo7Zn237PvN2LHh0Nw1a34CCS1PDED3lq_LuH9V9flZJsUzme_mcvVdgv51liNRrMOjjokWo6Xfc51yGzRUjqFSfdlq3SBHwY15NSoAhfMt1KZbc7W-WPYBeKImWhdmKBO3Cri/s800/2021January28pleinair1_8x6w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="623" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9wYqC7vOo7Zn237PvN2LHh0Nw1a34CCS1PDED3lq_LuH9V9flZJsUzme_mcvVdgv51liNRrMOjjokWo6Xfc51yGzRUjqFSfdlq3SBHwY15NSoAhfMt1KZbc7W-WPYBeKImWhdmKBO3Cri/w311-h400/2021January28pleinair1_8x6w.png" width="311" /></a></div>January 28th: Watching the full moon rise and the colors of the landscape shift. Buttery yellow, dusky blue, and soft rosy afterglow on the trees. 8 x 6" plein air oil on linen/birch.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigQbLgLwUYO1kEDNYaF0U1MMEtFbJ9HTLbj1cwOuaNkro37TRLaar3K3k27l5UW1vnDF_7JpAbjEBlm_BKRv0kDooZ_AzgUar-HHFt9V_f5mrWDdn_6OSUx3nFI_kzMo9aviUdHmfvakXu/s800/2021January28pleinair2_8x6w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="629" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigQbLgLwUYO1kEDNYaF0U1MMEtFbJ9HTLbj1cwOuaNkro37TRLaar3K3k27l5UW1vnDF_7JpAbjEBlm_BKRv0kDooZ_AzgUar-HHFt9V_f5mrWDdn_6OSUx3nFI_kzMo9aviUdHmfvakXu/w315-h400/2021January28pleinair2_8x6w.png" width="315" /></a></div><div>And as the darkness deepened, the moon rose higher in the sky, and a thin veil of cloud surrounded it in a ragged-edged ring of color. My fingers were growing cold inside their mittens and it was time to leave the wonder of the moonlit landscape for the warmth of the house. 8 x 6" plein air oil on linen/birch.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u>New Gallery!</u></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA8Pu1UzREwfs3bIJthKKQm9y_8bxK0H3BHSUsKhQ1jwm8PdEd-wO-w1fXOJ7SGWlrlGj6D_hPW8BKv6ONxwQE3pFSVPl8CoksA7Ppc-y5QuziQKm3SCwz-HgxrNj7MweCRpNfgXHGyebV/s1613/2020JanuaryJKNIgallery.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1613" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA8Pu1UzREwfs3bIJthKKQm9y_8bxK0H3BHSUsKhQ1jwm8PdEd-wO-w1fXOJ7SGWlrlGj6D_hPW8BKv6ONxwQE3pFSVPl8CoksA7Ppc-y5QuziQKm3SCwz-HgxrNj7MweCRpNfgXHGyebV/w400-h248/2020JanuaryJKNIgallery.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">I'm so pleased to have delivered a collection of my winter paintings to the <a href="https://www.jameskromnaturalimages.com/">James Krom Natural Images Art Gallery and Museum</a> in Rochester, Minnesota. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUkPgR8RvLxI8dMPy3V1LVjzUI_9GmYKSlluyaLcjK8ctc_nFa9R8Dp5FEDvCMi7T09WMKybITyugG-uNPFFI9SokhuhSKrBK792GrQXXHKeuyyxqU9QKOatS8zo4_M4F9mCiEfOzDNYdt/s1000/2020DuskintheFrozenOrchard18x24w.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="1000" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUkPgR8RvLxI8dMPy3V1LVjzUI_9GmYKSlluyaLcjK8ctc_nFa9R8Dp5FEDvCMi7T09WMKybITyugG-uNPFFI9SokhuhSKrBK792GrQXXHKeuyyxqU9QKOatS8zo4_M4F9mCiEfOzDNYdt/w400-h299/2020DuskintheFrozenOrchard18x24w.png" width="400" /></a></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Dusk in the Frozen Orchard", 18 x 24" oil on linen/birch. One of the pieces now available at the gallery.</span></i></div></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Located in the Marriott Hotel - Peace Plaza subway level - this gallery is a trove of beautiful and skilled workmanship, from incredible wood carving, bronze sculpture and unique jewelry, to a wide range of paintings that celebrate the natural world - including work from two of my favorite Minnesota painters: <a href="https://www.joshuacunningham.com/">Joshua Cunningham</a> and <a href="https://www.fredericksomers.com/works">Frederick Somers</a>. It's an honor to be included.<br /><br /><p><br /></p></div></div>H.C.H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06107042941243784060noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328536506253519360.post-42879223267731272102020-04-06T23:15:00.000-05:002020-04-06T23:15:20.189-05:00February 2020: Field Notes<div style="text-align: center;">
The month of February began with sunshine, and a goal to get out into it as much as I could. </div>
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2/1: The sunshine, though brief, was extra welcome after a particularly cloudy January, and it was good to get out to the woods and paint. The early afternoon light shone on a wild apple tree, and the sun cast blue shadows across the deep snow.</div>
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2/2: A birch tree in the woods. The sun sank behind thin clouds to the west, softening the contrasts and colors of the evening landscape.</div>
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2/4: Trying to escape the bite of the north wind, I found myself returning to the shelter of the orchard. As usual, the deer had made themselves at home there, and the snow around the trees was crisscrossed with their tracks.</div>
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2/5 (and 2/8): Further snow-study. I loved the strong blue that seemed to envelop the snow- and tree-covered slope in shadow, while the soft evening sunlight lingered on the stones and oak tree that occupy the corner of the hillside pasture. It was a bit more than I could manage in the short time I had before the sun set, and I returned to the same place a few days later to wrestle with it a little longer.</div>
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2/6: Golden light, the moon rising over the old oak tree, and the shadow of the hill slowly climbing as the sun sets.</div>
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2/8: Small, cold, color studies, as the sun set and the full moon rose above the tree tops.</div>
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2/11: On a west-facing hillside, facing the sun. Hickory and oak trees, blue shadows, </div>
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2/15: The sun setting behind me gave so much color to the snow and the tangle of vines at the base of these trees.</div>
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2/17: Painting in the field, watching approaching snow showers, the afternoon sun occasionally visible through the clouds.</div>
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2/22: I received a box of lemons from California in the mail and they were too pretty not to paint, their bright yellow next to the blue-tint of an old canning jar from my Grandma's kitchen.</div>
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And one more quick study, just for fun.</div>
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2/24: A layer of thin clouds made for subtle light and color at dusk. Snow and scrappy trees.</div>
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2/29: Leap-day painting. The day had been a persistent grey, and I began my painting with a plan to focus on the dark water and soft color shifts of a cloudy day. I had just sketched out the rough shapes of the scene when I looked up to see blue sky, and the last trace of cloud quickly disappearing. My footprints in the snow caught bright sunlight, and the creek changed from slate to deep blue.</div>
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January 6: Painting in the orchard. Apples that were too green for harvest froze on the trees and had turned from yellow-green to a rusty red, giving a blush of color to the tangled branches.</div>
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January 20: In the midst of a very cloudy stretch of winter, a rare day of blue sky and sunshine, and no wind. I liked how the light shone on this hickory tree along a fence line. There were few tracks in the snow, but just before I began to paint, the dogs spotted a rabbit and the chase was on. The rabbit got away, and the scene had changed.</div>
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January 28: A small study on the edge of a cornfield on another cloudy evening. There was just a hint of color at the horizon to indicate the sun was setting, and the dry leaves on the corn stalks rustled in the wind.</div>
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From mid-January to mid-February I had a solo exhibition at Saint Mary's University in Winona, Minnesota.</div>
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I showed forty paintings, mostly oils plus a small collection of watercolors, which spanned the seasons and meandered through my beloved fields and woodlands.</div>
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I also had a couple of opportunities to speak with groups of students, while painting these small demonstration pieces. </div>
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A painting from last spring, when the fields were beginning to green up and the sky foretold a spring shower. </div>
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This piece, of two distinctive bluffs along Highway 61 in Minnesota, was done over several days on location, plus more work back indoors, as I tried to catch the late light as it hit the peaks of the bluffs. The air was cool, and the leaves of the trees were only beginning to unfurl along the highway. I painted to the sounds of the spring peepers' persistent song and an occasional passing vehicle.</div>
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"An Early Snowfall" was worked up from a small 5 x 7" plein air piece done in early November, when a blanket of snow fell over the still green fields and leaf-clad trees of the woods. A beautiful combination of warm evening light and cold snow underfoot.</div>
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Done en plein air over several evenings, as I tried to capture in paint the moments just at dusk when the north sky briefly held on to the colors of sunset before fading to the grey-blue of twilight.</div>
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This one was done in one of my favorite places in the woods. The steep hillsides were covered in snow, with the afternoon sunlight slanting through the trees and the blue shadows on a neighboring bluff visible through the branches.</div>
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This painting was done in late October, in the pasture, the oak trees nearly at their peak for color, and the grass still green.</div>
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"Stille Nacht" began as a sketch one night in December as I walked home in the dusk, the afterglow of sunset lingering, and the moon rising. I knew I wanted to paint this, and did a small watercolor study as soon as I could, and then began the oil.</div>
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Home.</div>
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Another studio piece worked up from a plein air field painting, as September eased into October.<br />
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<span id="goog_494749976"></span>Wishing you peace through this time, and always.</div>
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September brought my first trip up to Grand Marais, Minnesota, to participate in Plein Air Grand Marais. I'd heard about this gathering for years, and this year brought an unexpected opportunity to join in.</div>
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I spent the morning exploring Cascade River State Park. The sunshine was warm, and I was not prepared for how cool the wind would be later on when I returned to paint, stepping across the stones in the river to set up my easel on a little island midstream.</div>
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September 9, 2018: More exploring, this time mostly from the car. I passed this barn a couple of times before deciding to stop and ask if I could paint it. The barn, about 100 years old, was awaiting a new roof. A couple of pigeons flew over my head, returning to the peak of the roof where they were clearly at home.</div>
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September 10, 2018: The sun peeked out every now and then, but the clouds took the day.</div>
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I spent more time exploring, driving and stopping anywhere that looked interesting. I walked some ski trails until I remembered the existence of bears and scared myself.</div>
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I ended up at Sugarloaf Cove and painted on the rocks. The light and color of the water changed quickly as the rain passed by in the distance.</div>
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After nightfall, I joined artist <a href="https://www.tirysalgado.com/">Naomi Tiry-Salgado</a> to paint in downtown Grand Marais. Despite the wet weather there were other painters out around town, too. I set up in a doorway to partially shelter my easel from the rain, accompanied by an umbrella and hot tea, across from the "World's Best Donuts" (unfortunately closed at night!) The wet street made for some great reflections, and a street light glared off the back of a stop sign. The tall white building was once the Light Keeper's house, built in 1896, and is now a museum. I returned a couple of nights later to tighten up a few things on the painting before calling it finished.</div>
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September 11, 2018: Back at Cascade River State Park, at a place I'd found while hiking around on the first day. It's a beautiful spot, with deep shade, thick moss, and rich color; but the painting was a fight. I returned the next day to work on it again, and in the end I brought it home with me. There are lessons in this one, I think, but it may take some time to really learn them.</div>
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Later I painting along Highway 61, a few miles outside of Grand Marais. I was taken with how the evening sunshine brought out the shapes of the trees and all the roadside color.</div>
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Thursday, September 13, was the 2 hour quick paint event in Grand Marais. It was the last painting I'd be doing, and the last part of Plein Air Grand Marais I'd be participating in. I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off, framing and dropping off paintings and thinking about all that I needed to do before and after my long drive home.</div>
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I was late to set up painting, but at that point I didn't really mind. This was the icing on the cake; I wanted to give it my best but also just enjoy it. It was time to be still, to be quiet, to learn and to rejoice.</div>
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After the fight of my other woods painting I almost didn't attempt this one. But there was just something about these backlit boulders, their edges and moss-covered angles, that caught my eye and held it. Beautiful.</div>
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A quick dinner with friends and then it was time to hit the road. I left grateful for the opportunity I had to participate in this event, time spent with acquaintances new and old, all the people from <a href="http://www.outdoorpaintersofminnesota.org/">Outdoor Painters of Minnesota</a> who were involved and worked so hard to pull it all together, as well as those from the <a href="https://www.cookcountyhistory.org/jhpartgallery/">Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery</a>, which held the show from the 14th through October 7th. I didn't get to be there for the opening, but I got a wonderful surprise when I heard that "The Light-Keeper's Place" had received the 1st place award for the Night Paint category! A big thanks to judge <a href="http://www.jeffreytlarson.com/">Jeffrey T. Larson</a>.</div>
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Friday found me home again packing up for the <a href="http://driftlessareaartfestival.com/">Driftless Area Art Festival</a>, which took place on Saturday and Sunday. Severe damage from recent flooding caused the festival to be moved from its usual location to the fairgrounds in Gays Mills, Wisconsin. The volunteers did such a great job in organizing this last minute change! For me, this is always a special event, in the middle of a special part of the Midwest. </div>
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The weekend was unusually warm for September, but I think we were all glad for the sunshine and lack of rain. A huge thank-you to everyone who showed up and made it memorable, interesting, and so enjoyable.<br />
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The sixth annual <a href="http://betweenthebluffs.com/">Plein Air Between the Bluffs</a> outdoor painting event had begun on the 7th in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and I was glad to get a few days to join in. As I set up to paint, the afternoon's sunshine gave way to storm clouds. I'd nearly finished painting when the wind whipped up and it was time to bail. I was able to return a while later, between the first storm ending and the second beginning, to put the final touches on the piece and watch the distant lightning.<br />
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Tuesday, September 18th, in Dresbach, Minnesota down by the Mississippi River. It was a mostly grey day, but a little bit of blue sky showed above the river and soft light shone on the trees in the late afternoon.</div>
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Wednesday, September 19th. A soft rain fell in the woods below the orchard on the farm, where the cow paths converge and split as they wend their way through the aspen trees. The greens of summer were beginning to give way to the coming colors of fall.</div>
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The public opening for the show was held at the SG1311 gallery in La Crosse. It was great to get to see all the new work, and talk with the other artists and people who came to the show. <a href="http://bethbathe.com/">Beth Bathe</a>, who judged the show this year, gave a talk, and the gallery dog made his way around the room, hoping for a dropped hors d'oeuvre. I was very happy to receive a Merit Award for my "Quiet Thunder" painting, and even happier that two pieces found new homes.</div>
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P.S. Pasture Studies: closing out the month with some quiet painting on the farm.</div>
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Mid-August brought me to Hudson, Wisconsin for the 3-day Plein Air Hudson outdoor painting event. It was a weekend of cloudy skies and hazy sunshine.</div>
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Friday, August 17.<br />
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My first painting was in an alley off of Walnut Street. I was drawn to the shapes and lines of the buildings in the alley and the subtleties of color found there - the grays of the street and the weathered shed, surrounded by summer greenery with the darker trees in the background.<br />
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Later, I met up with a couple of artist friends who were painting the falls in Willow River State Park. I stayed long after they had finished up, working on my own interpretation of this place of rock and water. It is a popular spot in summer, though I didn't incorporate any figures into my piece.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the Rocks, Willow Falls; 9 x 12" plein air oil on linen/birch</td></tr>
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Saturday, August 18.<br />
Painting number 3: I wrestled with roof angles, loving the grasses and vines surrounding these outbuildings on a farm in Houlton. (Thank you to the folks who live here and were so gracious to the invading artists who painted on and around the farm that day!) This piece received an honorable mention from judge <a href="https://www.joshuacunningham.com/">Joshua Cunningham</a> at the opening.<br />
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I began this painting as dusk fell and the sun disappeared in the haze across the river. Lights began to glow in the dim; my eyes were drawn down the street past the facades of the buildings to the trees of the park. The light failed before I was satisfied, and I returned the next night to finish up a few things - like making the parked cars look a little more like cars and less like a large caterpillar sitting by the curb! I enjoyed this one.<br />
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Sunday, August 19.</div>
A little study of the trees along a quiet spot near where the Willow and St. Croix rivers meet.<br />
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Later in the afternoon the sky clouded over again. I painted near a friend, and it was nice to have another set of eyes every once in awhile to give feedback and help work out problems in the painting. The clouds held my attention as they drifted above the dark trees along the river.<br />
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Monday evening held the opening at the <a href="https://seasonsonstcroix.com/">Seasons on St. Croix Gallery</a> - they do a great job, and it's a grand time filled with appreciation of art and nature and architecture, and some wonderful and meaningful conversations and connections.<br />
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A few days later I did my final paintings for the month of August, out by the orchard, along a field taken over by goldenrod and milkweed.<br />
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H.C.H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06107042941243784060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328536506253519360.post-47566467586542765602018-08-03T22:15:00.000-05:002018-09-05T23:19:46.140-05:00July - and the rest of June<div style="text-align: center;">
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June 1, in the garden. The peas are growing, but the weeds are growing too.</div>
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June 5: The field road cutting its way through the long grass, the dark brown of a newly planted field, the uppermost row of apple trees in the orchard and the edge of the woods. The evening shadows beginning to stretch across the fields as the day neared its end.</div>
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I wanted a little higher perspective for this painting, so I set up my easel on the top of a woodpile.</div>
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June 10: Hanging out with a painting friend, and warming up for the <a href="https://ambitioussnail.blogspot.com/2018/06/red-wing-plein-air-2018.html">Red Wing plein air event</a>. The view looking across the valley. So much green!</div>
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June 23: In the hayfield - timothy hay. Beautiful soft purples amongst the greens of the field. Red-wing Blackbirds and Bobolinks.</div>
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June 27th, evening. I wanted to paint the moonrise. I spent so much time wandering around, up and down hill and through the fields, that I missed the very beginning. But I set up my easel at the farm across the road and painted the moon rising over fields and fence-line trees.</div>
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As the light faded and the fireflies came out I painted another quick study. I love the colors at this time of night! The dogs, who know they're not allowed there, snuck across the road and greeted me with tails wagging - time to quit and take them home again.</div>
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But it was so lovely out, and the moon was so bright! I got a clip on light from the house and went out again, around 11pm, and began to paint while a few clouds passed over.</div>
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July 6: A storm passed through and spoiled some of the hay. It was baled and waiting to be picked up off the field. Windrows of cut hay lay out to dry in the summer sun.</div>
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July 9: An evening in the pasture. Gooseberry bushes around a great old oak tree. Shadows lengthen on the hillside, and the cattle, after a rest in the long grass, again slowly made their way across the pasture, continuing their grazing.</div>
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July 10th, evening, another attempt at a nocturne painting. A learning experience for sure! I've a long way to go.<br />
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July 15th, evening. After a long day of indoor work, I escaped outside to paint the sky. Two little cloud studies, one facing south, and the other north.<br />
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Also in July, I finished up a commission, and did lots and lots of framing in preparation for the Stockholm Art Fair in Stockholm, Wisconsin.</div>
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It was a beautiful day for the art fair, on the shores of Lake Pepin, and I had a great time. Huge thank-you to everyone who stopped by, and especially those who took home paintings! I'm so grateful.</div>
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July 25. One night I had picked some wild yarrow out of the pastures along the edge of the woods. I had them in a pint canning jar, an old one with very thick glass. The yarrow stems dyed the water yellow.</div>
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July 27: Another night watching the sky.</div>
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Clouds to the northwest:</div>
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And a quick little moonrise study:</div>
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July 30. My two-year-old niece has been spending the week at the farm. She's so sweet, and so wild, and she never seems to stop moving! Even in her sleep she is not still. But I tried a quick little study of her in oil paint during her nap one day.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Naptime - 8 x 8" alla prima oil on linen/hardboard. July 30, 2018</td></tr>
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July 31. We've had a few days with such beautiful cloud formations and I finally got out to paint some over the garden. I really enjoyed studying them and trying to figure out how to show their form and brightness. The garden was its own challenge with all those greens - from leeks, cucumbers, raspberries, corn - under the hot afternoon sun.</div>
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The week started out cloudy. I headed for the woods.</div>
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I had decided to visit Frontenac State Park this year, never having gone before, and I'm so glad I did! I ended up doing half my paintings there. I've only just begun to get acquainted with the place, and will have a lot more exploring to do in the future. Along the Upper Bluff Trail there were a couple of places with large fern beds on the steep hillsides facing the river. I set up my easel near one of these.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Path through the Ferns, 10 x 8" plein air oil on linen/hardboard. June 11, 2018. <span style="color: #990000;">sold</span></td></tr>
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Just the right sort of place to spend a few hours quietly, taking in my surroundings, all the colors and sounds and fragrances of the woods, occasionally flicking away a spider or an ant or being scolded by a squirrel.</div>
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My easel and gear can get pretty heavy, and are always a bit cumbersome. I carry it all on my back and plod along like an overgrown turtle. This week I tried something new and brought a small folding scooter with me to use on paved trails. It got me around a lot faster, and wasn't much to wheel along with me in the places I couldn't ride. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm still a turtle, but now slightly faster and slightly more ridiculous!</td></tr>
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The day continued cloudy, but as the sun went down the clouds broke up a bit. I had my back to the sunset, looking out over Lake Pepin at the softer colors of the sky and the patterns on the water.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dusk on the River, 8 x 6" plein air oil on linen/birch. June 11, 2018. <span style="color: #990000;">sold</span></td></tr>
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Tuesday, June 12th:</div>
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Had a good time painting with Jim Turner, who had found and got permission to paint at this little homestead on the previous day. I spent the humid morning wrestling with roof angles and flat light.</div>
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Jim's second painting was of me still working on my first!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Hannah at Work", watercolor by Jim Turner.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hill Avenue Farm, 14 x 11" plein air oil on linen/birch. June 12, 2018.</td></tr>
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In the evening there was a cookout/potluck dinner for the artists and volunteers. I was late, but was glad I showed up. A beautiful location, and some good conversation.</div>
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The sky was clearing and the clouds were getting interesting, and on leaving I made a quick decision to head out towards the country and try to capture the clouds in paint. It was a mad dash to paint them before they changed too much and before the light faded! I didn't have quite enough time. I may work on this one again and see if I can fix a few things.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cloud study, 9 x 12" plein air oil on linen/birch. June 12, 2018.</td></tr>
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Wednesday, June 13th: Blue sky!</div>
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I headed back to Frontenac State Park, sat on a picnic table, and painted the early day.</div>
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<i>"...Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning."</i></div>
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In years past this plein air week was my time away - a break from caregiving, and a time to focus on painting. During the week I'd call home, checking in to see how my Grandma was doing, worrying, discussing her and her care. At the end of the week I'd return, exhausted. Often I'd be up with her in the night to follow - sometimes it was a battle of wills as I'd try to get her to drink more, or we'd sit together and talk or sing. I'd long for sleep, but give thanks that she was there. I miss her.</div>
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Still feeling my own loss keenly, I was perhaps extra emotional when it was announced Friday night that my painting "Joy in the Morning" had been selected for the Dan Guida Award. Dan was the longtime director of the Red Wing Arts Association and an enthusiastic force behind this plein air festival. His family created this award in his honor and memory, and I am deeply grateful.</div>
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Wednesday evening I returned to one of my favorite places: Rattlesnake Bluff Trail in Wacouta, Minnesota. Another study in greens. The trees cast shadows across the trail and grass and into the field, and the rocky face of the bluff caught the late afternoon sunshine.</div>
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Thursday, June 14th: Back at the park, painting tree portraits.</div>
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My first painting of the day was again on the Upper Bluff Trail. A gnarled maple tree trunk, and the greens of leaves and underbrush.</div>
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My last painting of the day was along the road near the park entrance. I love the shapes of these great trees, and the way they caught the late light before dusk.</div>
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Friday, June 15th:</div>
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A hot, humid morning. Squeezing in one more painting, before framing and delivering three paintings to the gallery.</div>
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A beautiful little farm off the highway, with rich pastures, colorful cattle, and noisy guinea fowl. More greens. A little creek cutting through the pasture, and a silvery willow tree in the distance.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Pastures Green, 10 x 8" plein air oil on linen/hardboard. June 15, 2018.</td></tr>
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Friday evening was the special "First Glimpse" and Award Reception, a ticketed event. Judge <a href="http://lisastauffer.com/">Lisa Stauffer</a> did a great job of speaking about the art, encouraging notice of and appreciation for technique and portrayal of atmosphere in the works. I was so happy to see Jim Turner receive Best in Show for his painting "Men at work"! <a href="http://derekdavisstudio.com/">Derek Davis</a> got second place for "Back in the Saddle", and <a href="https://dkpalecek.com/">DK Palecek</a> received third place for her painting "Late Sun". <a href="http://danwiemer.com/">Dan Wiemer</a>'s painting "Majestic Maiden Rock" received the "Best Sense of Place" award.</div>
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Saturday, June 16th.</div>
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I awoke to the sound of thunder and rain. It had lessened somewhat by 9am, when the quick-paint competition started, but an occasional streak of lightning still flashed across the river and every so often I had to put up my umbrella as the rain blew in under the roof of the depot, where a few of us had taken shelter to paint. I did like how the rain changed the view and softened the distant trees. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crossing, 8 x 10" plein air oil on linen/hardboard. June 16, 2018. <span style="color: #990000;">sold</span></td></tr>
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At 11am the horn sounded and it was brushes down! Time to blow off the rain drops that still clung to the painting, and get it framed and into the gallery. Artist <a href="https://greglecker.com/">Greg Lecker</a> took the award for the quick paint.</div>
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Now I will admit something here: early in the week, I hurt myself. I was zipping along on my scooter, scoping out painting locations (and, really, because it's fun and I'm only a kid pretending to be a grown-up) when we parted ways and I met the pavement. This incident slowed me down; I had to be more careful, couldn't hike far, had to spend more time patching myself up. (Yes, guy at Walgreens, I am back for more bandages...) To adapt a famous quote, plein air painting is hard, and it's harder when you're stupid. But my bruises are fading and my new skin is coming in nicely. I still had a great week. Good times with painting friends, and a good dose of time alone. I met some lovely people, a dog who tried to make off with one of my shoes, sunshine and clouds and innumerable shades of green. </div>
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The show will be up till August 5th, and I hope you'll get a chance to stop in at the gallery to see all the work and pick out your own favorites.</div>
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May 4 - spring in the woods. The browns of last year's fallen leaves broken up by the greens of Dutchman's Breeches and wild ramps.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 4, 2018, 6 x 8" plein air oil on linen/birch.</td></tr>
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May 6 - spring paint-day at the farm. A great group of artists came out to the farm to paint. It was so fun for me to see some old painting friends and meet some new ones, and to see this place I love portrayed through the eyes and art of others.</div>
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This is the painting that I did towards the end of the day. The fields were getting so green, and the trees of the woods were leafing out.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 6, 2018, 10 x 7" plein air oil on linen/birch.</td></tr>
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May 9 - an attempt. Apple twigs, leaves, and blossoms in one of my favorite pieces of pottery. This was so much more difficult than I anticipated. I hope to try again next year.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 9-10, 2018, apple blossoms. 16 x 20" oil on linen/birch.</td></tr>
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May 11 - another attempt. These cuttings off the apple trees were still in bud stage, and I painted them in an old "Atlas" canning jar. A very fun challenge.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 11, apple buds in an Atlas mason jar. 12 x 10" oil on linen/birch.</td></tr>
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May 14 - A rainy Monday. The woods were turning all sorts of green, and the wet weather brought out the deeper colors of the bark of the trees.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 14, 2018, 10 x 8" plein air oil on linen/birch.</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: center;">May 15th - I always like to see how the hickory leaves unfurl from their flower-like buds in the spring.</span><br />
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In the evening I went out in the fields. The trees and the fields were becoming greener, but hadn't yet put on their summer colors. The shadows on the bluffs looked blue as the light faded. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 15, 2018, 5 x 7" plein air oil on linen/birch.</td></tr>
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May 17th - I started this one late, after spending time working in the orchard clearing brush from between the rows of trees. The light was so pretty that time of day, but so fleeting! I didn't have enough time to finish and I ended up going out again a few days later, May 22, to put the finishing details in. The blooms were a bit sporadic this spring, the result of a very heavy bloom last year which was the result of a late frost that took out much of the crop the year before! By this time the grass was growing tall and green, and the air was filled with the scent of the blossoms and the buzzing of the bees hard at work.</div>
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May 19 - The weather turned unusually cool this evening as I went out to try to capture a little of the dandelion-filled fields. A north wind blew and the sky clouded over.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 19, 2018, 12 x 9" plein air oil on linen/birch.</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: center;">May 24 - Cloud study. This was one of those days when I just didn't have enough time to do what I wanted on location. But I had a start, painted in the bones so to speak, and finished it up at home that night.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 24, 2018, 8 x 10" alla prima oil on linen/birch.</td></tr>
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May 26 - Hot, humid weather. In the evening I went down towards the woods and set up in the shadows of the trees. The light from the sinking sun shone on the tops of the trees on the edge of the woods and lit one of the little trees that grow along the fence that separates pastures.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 26, 2018, 6 x 8" plein air oil on linen/birch.</td></tr>
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May 29 - Some beautiful blooms off of the bridal wreath bushes that grow by the house. I love the expressive shapes of the draping branches.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 29, 2018, 11 x 14" alla prima oil on linen/birch.</td></tr>
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May 31 - One more chance to paint the dandelions. A quick little study before the darkness fell.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 31, 2018, 5 x 7" plein air oil on linen/birch.</td></tr>
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April 4: The snow was deep, but the sun was warm. I headed up toward Menomonie, Wisconsin, to take part in the <a href="https://arborplacepleinair.com/">Arbor Place Plein Air</a> event. My first painting was done on the grounds of the Caddie Woodlawn Historical Park, which I enjoyed exploring before setting up to paint this old smokehouse.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Smokehouse, 12 x 9" plein air oil on linen/birch. April 4, 2018</td></tr>
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Late afternoon I returned to this spot by the Red Cedar River to paint the snow and water under the bridge. I just loved the colors.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snow on the Red Cedar, 9 x 12" plein air oil on linen/birch. April 4, 2018</td></tr>
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April 6th: the sun shone, but the wind was cold! My little sister joined me and we painted from the car, first in downtown Menomonie...</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">...and then a quick paint farther out in the countryside.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8 x 16" plein air oil on linen/hardboard. April 6, 2018</td></tr>
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April 11th. I went out for a walk in the afternoon. It was a cloudy day and most of the snow had melted. I cut a few twigs off of a pussy willow and brought them indoors to paint. The soft greys of the catkins, with touches of green and pink, and the bright green of the newly cut stem.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pussy Willows, alla prima still life, 12 x 10" oil on linen/birch. April 11, 2018</td></tr>
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April 12: I went out to work in the orchard in the afternoon. There is some major cutting of winter damaged trees happening, as well as some regular pruning, and I've been helping to haul branches and brush out from between the rows of trees and piling up some that's been cut for firewood. On this day I brought my easel out with me and tried to paint my impression of the place under an overcast sky. It was still cold and I took breaks in painting to haul more brush and warm myself up!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8 x 16" plein air oil on linen/birch. April 12, 2018</td></tr>
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April 17: Another snowstorm had come through, covering the land again and blowing the fallen snow into drifts. I went out one morning and painted along a fenceline on a hillside where the drifts were deep, studying all the variations in color on the snow and in the sky above.</div>
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April 19: The snow was melting again, especially on the top of the hill and where the tractor had plowed through along the field road. Patches of dirt and dry stubble broke up the smooth snow. I painted quickly, trying to capture a little bit of the late light.</div>
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And after the sun went down, I painted another quick study: the blue of the snow, afterglow in the sky, and the distant lights of the neighbors across the valley.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5 x 7" plein air oil on linen/birch. April 19, 2018</td></tr>
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April 20: My last study of snow: melting drifts along the road. A little scraggly tree with a bird's nest still in its branches. Long, dry grasses, and soft evening light.</div>
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April 29th: This painting was started on location, at the end of a day working in the orchard, but finished later on. It's a bit of a combination of what I observed that night.</div>
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At the close of January I left winter for summer, traveling from southeast Minnesota to southeast Queensland, Australia. I spent the next two months there, living with my sister's family, sweltering in the heat and humidity, resting, reading, letting my big sister take care of me, spending time with my growing niece and nephews, getting better acquainted with the place they call home, and, of course, painting.</div>
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I wanted to take this opportunity to work on drawing and painting figures and portraits, especially my niece and nephews.</div>
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Tired from travel, and settling in, I did a quick study of my niece, who was reading a Calvin & Hobbes book.</div>
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This pencil sketch is the closest I got to getting a likeness of my elusive eldest nephew. Someday I'll get to paint him. :)</div>
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My niece and I did a lot of drawing and painting together. Here I painted her profile while she worked on an excellent little painting of her dog.</div>
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An allergy discovered: A quick little sketch done for my nephew, who gave us a scare and was spending half the night at the hospital under observation after reacting to eating a prawn.</div>
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A better day, attempting a painting of my youngest nephew. Nothing like being asked to sit still to remind a
person of how much he likes to move and all the things he'd like to be
doing. (But he kind of tried!)</div>
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Painted over a couple of days, another portrait of my (very patient!) niece reading. Sometimes she read aloud to me, which was just lovely.</div>
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Asleep on the train after a long, eventful day. Graphite.</div>
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Studies of local flora.</div>
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Lilly Pilly. This was painted on a rainy day; a sprig plucked from a shrub by the house with its glossy green leaves and bright pink berries.</div>
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Though not native, frangipani or plumeria are a common sight, and their fragrance often fills the humid evening air.</div>
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Eucalyptus leaves and gumnuts, picked up off the path of the neighborhood forest after a rainstorm.</div>
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Gumnuts again. A different kind of eucalyptus tree with very different shaped leaves and fruit than the first one.</div>
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Banksia, in a Bundaberg lemonade bottle. I often saw this particular species - I think it's a swamp banksia - with its reddish-brown bottlebrush-like flower stalk and leathery leaves and I knew I wanted to try to paint it.</div>
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One more gumnut study, this time from a flowering gum tree. The fruit of this one were heavy and ridged, the flowers a lovely pink, slightly bedraggled after heavy rain, and the leaves long and narrow.</div>
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Beach Hibiscus. These grow to be large trees, which my niece and nephews liked to climb. Its bright yellow blossoms only last a day, then fade and fall. Handed to me after a conversation while I was painting one windy day by the bay, I took this flower back to the house with me and painted it that night before it wilted.</div>
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This was the first plein air painting of my visit. My niece and I trekked down to an area in the neighborhood forest and painted in the evening. The trunk of a strangler fig along a small stream. The light didn't last long, however, the mosquitoes began to hum, and the crows in the treetops sounded as though they were laughing at us.</div>
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Painted in Point Halloran Conservation Area: a study of midday greens and blues.</div>
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On Mount Tamborine, downstream from Curtis Falls, upstream from where a colony of fruit bats was hanging out. The light grew dim early down amongst the trees, and a little rain fell in this little bit of rainforest while I painted.</div>
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Tides, mud and sand, wind and rain and sunshine.</div>
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Raby Bay. I was all set up to paint when I discovered my brushes were not in with my gear - not one! This little painting of the water was done mostly with pieces of dried leaves off a nearby plant. A rough little color study.</div>
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Point Halloran, painting while watching the tide go out. In the hot and humid weather it made such a difference to get down to the shore and feel the wind off the water.</div>
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HMQS Gayundah. Appropriately, perhaps, my time painting this old gunboat "said to be named after an Aboriginal word for lightning" was interrupted by a sudden crack of thunder and lightning as a storm broke overhead. I was happy to get a chance to go back and finish it later in the afternoon as the tide came in.</div>
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Wellington Point. Low tide and cloudy skies, looking out towards King Island.</div>
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Later, as the skies cleared and the wind picked up and blew hard, I walked around the point and painted this one (two) of the red rocks and mangrove tree, as the tide began to come back in. The sunshine brought out such color on the ground and water.</div>
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Victoria Point. A beautiful old gumtree by the footpath. The water was high, covering the trunks and roots of the mangroves, and the morning shadows dappled the ground.</div>
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Also at Victoria Point, painting amongst the mangroves. An overcast sky made the colors of the landscape a bit more subdued.</div>
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Raby Bay. A little sky and water study. A cloud overhead gave shade and a little rain, and cloud shadows moved across the bay.</div>
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Victoria Point: Sky drama and mangroves at the bay. Glimpses of sunshine between rain showers.</div>
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Trying to take in and capture something of the colors and textures of sky and sea.</div>
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Listening to the wind, the little crabs crawling around the rocks, and the incoming tide.</div>
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Thompson's Beach, Victoria Point. A little painting done in the wind and an occasional downpour. A beautiful old boat and the fantastic shapes of the mangroves.</div>
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Redland Bay. A quick study of the evening light at the bay; shadows falling across the mangroves and the sand and mud of low tide.</div>
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Point Halloran Conservation Area. I really liked the feel of this place, tidal wetlands where salt and fresh water mix. There was a beautiful harmony in the colors of the wet landscape and sky and the delicate branches of the she-oaks. I would have liked to paint on location there, but the mosquitoes won the battle that day; I took a few photos and waded out. I began this little painting that night while the memory was fresh in my mind.</div>
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Boonah, Queensland, along Mount French Road, looking across pastures towards Moogerah Peaks. The weather passing through alternatingly obscuring and revealing the mountains in the distance.</div>
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Peak Crossing, Queensland. Sunshine and mountains, and farmland that made me feel a little more at home.</div>
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The Spit, Goldcoast. A quick study. The waves rolled in and washed around the legs of my easel and retreated again, pulling the sand back to the sea. I held on to make sure my easel didn't go out with the water. My little niece and nephew appointed themselves my protectors, digging trenches and lying on the sand to attempt to block the waves! Such good little buddies. :)</div>
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Mt. Coot-tha: We went up early to the lookout hoping to catch the sunrise over the city of Brisbane. Instead we looked out into fog. I painted this as the sun rose higher in the sky and the fog began to clear.</div>
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The morning sun grew hot and the fog lifted, bringing the city into view. </div>
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Where the Noosa River meets the sea.</div>
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We spent the last weekend of my visit at the Sunshine Coast. I painted with my feet in the sand and the sound of the ocean in my ears.</div>
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Sunshine Beach. Sand and sea and clouds at dusk.</div>
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My last painting in Australia: A little study of the water, watching the waves roll in and trying to take in all the color and form and movement. Beautiful day.</div>
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January 18</div>
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In the woods as afternoon turned to evening. Snow clung to the moss-covered bark of an old oak tree on the hillside.</div>
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January 19</div>
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Winona, Minnesota, on the campus of Saint Mary's University. I set up, troll-like, under a footbridge to paint the still water of the creek that cuts through the woods.</div>
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January 21</div>
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I took myself for a Sunday drive after church through a landscape of filtered sunlight, fog, and frost. By the time I reached this spot in the marsh the sun was disappearing behind incoming clouds and the fog had dissipated. It was a beautiful, quiet spot to observe the textures and colors of the bluffs and lowlands on a winter afternoon. It was a wide view, and the little panels I had along to paint on just didn't seem to cut it, so I painted two of them together.</div>
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January 25</div>
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Footprints and drifts along the field-road. Grays and blues in sky and snow, soft shadows and the sun setting behind a cloud bank to the west.</div>
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A thaw turned steep hillsides into waterfalls and all the ditches and gullies into streams of melted snow, stained by fallen leaves. The dogs, chasing tracks and trails up and down hill, occasionally remembered my existence and returned to me to be told what good dogs they were before running off again.</div>
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Shortly after I painted the reflections, water broke through the ice and snow farther up the hill and the little stream widened and foamed as it rushed on down towards the valley. </div>
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H.C.H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06107042941243784060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328536506253519360.post-85293874571265659842018-01-21T01:28:00.000-06:002018-06-21T15:57:57.372-05:00Watercolor Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I've been getting back into painting more with watercolor recently. It's so different than oils and, though I began with watercolors when I was a kid, it still can feel like a new and difficult medium - but can also be so fun and satisfying!</div>
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Here are some recent works from late fall until now:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Late October watercolor #1, approx. 5 x 8"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Late October watercolor #2, approx. 8 x 5"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last Color, watercolor, approx. 8 x 11"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Overgrown, watercolor, approx. 8 x 11"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Damp Leaves, watercolor, approx. 11 x 8"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moss Green, watercolor, approx. 5 x 8"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Still Meadow, watercolor, approx. 8 x 5"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">November Dusk, watercolor, approx. 5 x 8" <span style="color: #990000;">sold</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winter Birch Portrait, watercolor, approx. 11 x 8"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brown December, watercolor, approx. 7 x 11". <span style="color: #990000;">sold</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evening Snow Clouds, watercolor, approx. 7.5 x 9.25. <span style="color: #990000;">sold</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moody Snow Clouds, watercolor, approx. 7.25 x 9.25. <span style="color: #990000;">sold</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snow on the Tree Trunk, watercolor, approx. 5 x 4.75. <span style="color: #990000;">sold</span></td></tr>
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<br />H.C.H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06107042941243784060noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328536506253519360.post-51484673968343624052018-01-12T20:32:00.000-06:002018-06-21T15:58:44.515-05:00Though I walk...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8 x 16" plein air oil on linen/birch. December 11, 2017</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6 x 8" plein air oil on linen/birch. December 16, 2017</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9 x 12" plein air oil on linen/birch. January 8, 2018</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">18 x 24" oil on linen/birch. 2018</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">16 x 20" oil on linen/birch. 2018</td></tr>
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These paths wind and wend through woods and fields and pastures. Across sunlit land and shadows. Smooth ground and rough. Through thistles and weeds and brush, and through wide places and on the high ground where the wind blows cold. The little bit of snow that has fallen has settled in them and makes them stand out in the brown winter landscape.<br />
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They are not great, important roads - nothing special - just small, insignificant ways. Tracks left from planting and harvest, and trails followed by cattle and deer.<br />
And me.</div>
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I've been doing a lot of walking.<br />
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I wish I could say I've handled loss well, but grief has surprised me with its ebb and flow, its waves that come and knock me over when I think I've gotten through the worst of it and am doing fine. There are times when the missing is so strong and the absence felt so keenly.<br />
I'm trying to find my footing when everything has shifted. One path has abruptly ended, so what now?<br />
What am I doing, and what ought I to be doing, and thinking, and feeling? What is important, and what is of worth?<br />
Thoughts and questions, fear and fog, more foolishness than I want to admit. Trying to figure out a broken world, not able to figure out even a broken heart. Pouring it all out before the One who formed both. Putting one foot in front of the other.<br />
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<i>Trust in the Lord with all your heart,</i><br />
<i>And lean not on your own understanding;</i><br />
<i>In all your ways acknowledge Him,</i><br />
<i>And He shall direct your paths.</i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Proverbs 3:5-6</span></i><br />
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He is faithful still when I am faithless.<br />
His peace passes understanding.<br />
His promises are sure.<br />
His love never fails.<br />
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Keep walking.<br />
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<i>Watch,</i><br />
<i>Stand fast in the faith,</i><br />
<i>Be brave,</i><br />
<i>Be strong,</i><br />
<i>Let all that you do be done with love.</i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">1 Corinthians 16:13-14</span></i><br />
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H.C.H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06107042941243784060noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328536506253519360.post-35174353526918611322017-12-01T15:45:00.000-06:002018-01-07T23:16:54.090-06:00Autumn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Some oil paintings from October and November:</div>
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Late-blooming roses.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Autumn Roses, 9 x 7" oil on linen/birch.</td></tr>
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A stem of sumac leaves, with the light shining through them.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sumac Leaf, 7 x 9" oil on linen/birch.</td></tr>
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Gathered hickory nuts from the woods.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hickory Nuts, 8 x 8" oil on linen/birch.</td></tr>
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A little study of autumn color, fields and pastures, and a few grazing cows.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green and Golden, 5 x 7" plein air oil on linen/birch. October 17, 2017.</td></tr>
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A blue-sky day along the river. Painted in Alma, Wisconsin.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6 x 8" plein air oil on linen/hardboard. October 19, 2017. <span style="color: #990000;">Sold</span></td></tr>
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Followed by a cloudy one. Painted in Brownsville, Minnesota.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the River, 6 x 8" plein air oil on linen/hardboard. October 20, 2017.</td></tr>
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In a week's time most of the leaves in the woods were on the forest floor instead of in the canopy.</div>
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Falling snow and sleet softened the view of the landscape and heightened the color of the green moss and the dark trees in the woods.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10 x 8" plein air oil on linen/birch. October 27, 2017.</td></tr>
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There is a particular row of pear trees in the orchard that always turns beautifully red in the fall. I broke off a few twigs before a hard frost robbed the leaves of their vibrant color.</div>
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First snow. It didn't stick around long, but it was beautiful while it lasted.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First Snow, 8 x 10" plein air oil on linen/birch. November 1, 2017.</td></tr>
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Another little still life of things gathered in the woods.</div>
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The last of the nasturtiums, which had been kept through a few frosts outside already.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nasturtiums, 8 x 8" oil on linen/birch.</td></tr>
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A quick study of the oranges and greens of a cold November evening.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7 x 10" plein air oil and linen/birch. November 9, 2017.</td></tr>
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The old frame of a barn along a country road.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">9 x 12" plein air oil on linen/hardboard. November 12, 2017.</td></tr>
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A study of the familiar sweep of the south-side fields on the home farm. The cold weather has changed the greens, softening and dulling their hues.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Windswept Fields, 9 x 12" plein air oil on linen/birch. November 13, 2017.</td></tr>
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And a little study of the fields and woods to the north. The colors at dusk.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5 x 7" plein air oil on linen/birch. November 13, 2017.</td></tr>
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A sunshine day in a field of hay.</div>
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A day to give thanks. One among many.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7 x 10" plein air oil on linen/birch. November 23, 2017.</td></tr>
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Despite a stretch of warmer days, a little bit of ice remained on the shaded edge of the pond.</div>
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After keeping out during most of the deer hunting season, it was good to get back down amongst the trees again.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7 x 10" plein air oil on linen/birch. November 28, 2017.</td></tr>
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One more painting for the month of November. I knew just where I wanted to paint, and went there directly, but I didn't stay there after all. The old draw of the woods kept me wandering and meandering through the trees and up and down hill until the shadows were long and there was only just enough daylight left for an attempt at capturing this little group of birch trees.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">10 x 8" plein air oil on linen/birch. November 30, 2017.</td></tr>
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<br />H.C.H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06107042941243784060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328536506253519360.post-25174105013201856442017-10-17T00:26:00.000-05:002017-10-17T00:26:17.605-05:00Grandma<div style="text-align: center;">
Seven years ago I began to take a more active role in my Grandma's life
and care. In a short time I became one of her primary caregivers. She
was able to stay in her own home, on the farm, cared for by people who
belonged to her and loved her. There were many difficulties, but so much
grace. There is so much that I could say; so many stories, many changes, and so much I've learned through being in her life.</div>
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Now, she doesn't need me anymore.</div>
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She will run, and not be weary; she will walk and not faint. God will wipe away all tears from her eyes, and her voice will be strong to sing again.</div>
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She fought the good fight, she finished her race, she kept the faith.</div>
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I am still fighting, and running, and keeping, and the separation now hurts.</div>
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I love you, Grandma, and I'll see you again soon.</div>
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September holds both the <a href="http://driftlessareaartfestival.com/">Driftless Area Art Festival</a>, and the <a href="http://betweenthebluffs.com/">Plein Air Between the Bluffs</a> painting event - both celebrating the beauty and art of the region. It seems fitting then that many of my paintings this month have been especially focused on the bluffs and valleys of this corner of the Driftless Region. Here are some of my September oil paintings:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Change in the Air, 9 x 12" plein air oil on linen/hardboard. September 4th. <span style="color: #cc0000;">sold</span></td></tr>
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This first one was painted in Alma, Wisconsin. The trees near the water already showing their fading greens and hints of fall color. The weather that afternoon cycled through soft sunshine, rain, and gusts of wind. It was beautiful.</div>
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This little bluff and river painting was the first I did for the Between the Bluffs event, which is centered in La Crosse, Wisconsin. This was done across the Mississippi river on the Minnesota side, as evening fell.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Worn Wood and Sunshine, 10 x 12" plein air oil on linen/birch. September 12th.</td></tr>
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As part of the La Crosse event, I agreed to be one of the demonstrating artists - doing one painting at a set time and place for anyone who cared to watch. I'd not done this before, and frankly it can be a bit intimidating having people watch as the painting comes together! But it was fun; thanks to everyone who stopped over as I painted this beauty of an old barn.</div>
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Then I had to take a break from painting for a bit as I finished up all the little and big things that go into preparing for an art fair. The Driftless Area Art Fair is a gem. Thank you to everyone who stopped by and made it so special!</div>
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Then it was back to painting for the last few days of the Between the Bluffs event:</div>
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A hot September afternoon, watching the shadows from the clouds drift across the bluffs, and the breeze blow the willows and leaves on the small poplars that grow in the marshy lowland. (I was so happy to receive the "Spirit of La Crosse" award on this piece from judge <a href="http://www.scottlloydanderson.com/">Scott Lloyd Anderson</a> at the opening reception!)</div>
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I began this painting the same night, but it was late. I liked that color on the bluffs that were lit by the setting sun, but I just didn't have the time to get the painting to where I wanted it to be. The following night I returned to the same spot and refined it a little bit more.</div>
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It was warm down in the woods and damp too, despite the dry weather. I had my easel wedged against a tree, with only its back leg set up, to keep it from sliding down the steep hillside, as I sought to capture the varying greens looking down towards the valley.</div>
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This last one was a little painting done for a couple who used to live in this area, but have moved elsewhere. I little reminder of the bluffs and valleys. I loved the light at that time of day!</div>
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Three days in a row I went out to paint on a bale-strewn hillside with an excellent view of the western sky. Three days in a row the weather moved in from the northeast.</div>
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The weather the first day was the most dramatic and severe. I caught the last of the sunshine and the beginning dark clouds in this little quick study.</div>
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I finished up in between trips running up the hill to watch the sky and be amazed at the line of storm clouds and rain moving closer, lit dramatically by the light from the setting sun.</div>
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The next day I began a larger plein air painting - at 12 by 16 inches, it was a bit larger than I usually work outdoors. I got kind of a late start, though, and with the clouds which moved in once again it got dark sooner. I "finished" the painting, but I just wasn't satisfied.</div>
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I went out again the next day, similar time, same spot, and worked out a few of the things that were concerning me. This is the final result:</div>
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When we were kids, my older sister and I sometimes had the job of pulling wild carrot (Queen Anne's Lace) out of the pastures. It has a tendency to take over, so the goal was to keep it in check. However, when roadwork was done nearby, and the mulch used to cover the bare banks and ditches was apparently full of wild carrot, the battle was officially lost. At least it's beautiful!</div>
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August 18-20 was the annual <a href="http://seasonsonstcroix.com/events/plein-air-hudson-2017/">Plein Air Hudson</a> in Hudson, Wisconsin along the St. Croix River. This year I wanted to check out the nearby state park: Willow River State Park. I'm so happy I did! The river it's named for is lovely, and the falls are understandably popular.</div>
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Friday the 18th was an overcast and cool day - perfect for hiking, and for taking my time on this painting of a couple of the trees that grow along the falls. Moss and stone and moving water. I definitely want to go back there.</div>
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I spent some time in the afternoon exploring without my heavy pack of gear. Up a steep bunch of steps there's a nice lookout right up above the falls, and I wanted to return later and try a painting from there. </div>
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I didn't give myself much time - I used every bit of daylight, which made for a dark hike back - but the sun peeking out from the clouds and hitting the water and the colors and textures of the many trees and hazy hills was something I really wanted to capture a little of in my painting.</div>
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Saturday, August 19th. I spent the morning walking around the town of Hudson, and checking out the work of some of the other artists who were painting down by the river. I had lunch with a new painting pal, and then it was time to get to work!</div>
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I saw this old brick building last year while walking around town and I wanted to paint it. It has a lot of character, and I really like its old door with its wooden slats. The view I first wanted would have involved standing in the street, which obviously wasn't going to work. So I got as close as I could, standing on the curb in the slim shadow of a power line pole. Light and shadow, green weeds and orange brick, and a view down the alley.</div>
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In the evening I went back down by the water. The reflections on the still water were just magnificent, and I had to try to paint them.</div>
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Sunday, August 20, back at the state park. It was a much warmer day than my first visit. Those steps up the trail seemed even steeper and longer!</div>
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I don't often paint pine trees - I'm more of a deciduous tree person. But there's something so lovely about a pine grove, the ground covered in old needles, and the spicy-piney fragrance when the wind blows through it. I liked how the light caught the bare lower branches of these trees and I wanted to convey that in this painting. This painting came neither quickly nor easily; I have a lot to learn about painting pines.</div>
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The last painting did go quickly - both out of necessity due to the time of day, and because it's more my usual subject matter: farm and sky. The sky was just getting interesting as the sun sank behind the clouds. I set up along this road and a corn field. A new road has gone in close by, and this one ends very abruptly just behind where I was parked.</div>
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The evening of Monday, August 21st, held the opening reception. Really fun to see the whole show hung, pick out favorite paintings, and hear the stories behind some of them.<br />
The event judge this year was <a href="http://www.scottlloydanderson.com/">Scott Lloyd Anderson</a>, and the top prizes went to <a href="http://richardabraham.com/">Richard Abraham</a>, <a href="https://www.danmondloch.com/">Dan Mondloch</a>, and <a href="http://bobuptonstudio.com/">Bob Upton</a>, who well deserved them!<br />
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The show was on display August 21-27. Special thanks to all who stopped by, and extra special thanks to those who are giving some of my paintings new homes!<br />
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Humid days and cut hay. Storms and sunshine. Thundershowers and wildflowers.</div>
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July 1st. It gets dark much sooner down in the woods, and I didn't start as early as I would have liked. But the light was so beautiful among the trees on this north bluffside. I painted quickly, trying to capture a bit of the late light before darkness fell, and the coyotes began to howl.</div>
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July 5th. Another late evening start. The sky showed pink, reflecting the colors of the sunset to the west, and the drying hay and small square bales caught the warm light.</div>
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July 7th. The weather looked uncertain - now dark and piling clouds, now sunshine. I set up with a good view of the sky in case it turned stormy. The patterns of the rows of hay and the contours of hillside fields are always beautiful to me, as is the fragrance of the cut grass, clover, and alfalfa drying in the heat of the day.</div>
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As I finished up, the clouds were breaking apart, and I did this little study of the moon rising in the dusky sky.</div>
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July 20th. It was a warm, sticky evening. Patches of the long grass had been knocked over by the previous night's storm. I was surrounded by the sounds of tree frogs and the frogs from the nearby pond, and occasionally the sounds of startled deer. Everything was wet with dew as I finished up at dusk.</div>
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July 25th. Indoor painting day. I got this lovely vase from Cheesbro Pottery earlier this year, and it was perfect for holding a bunch of pennycress that I'd pulled out of the fields and that had dried, with its many seedpods arranged on its delicate stems.</div>
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July 27th. A little study of weathered wood and yellow blooms. I don't know what these flowers are actually named, but I always heard them called "Showers-of-Gold". They have been growing here for many, many years. The old building is the known as the summer kitchen, and has "1895" written inside the door. Old beauty.</div>
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July 28th. Dusk in the pasture. Wild carrot and yarrow flowers, and two slender poplar trees.</div>
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July 31st. Little studies of the sky, the bluffs, and the Mississippi River. The first was done in Pepin, Wisconsin. A warm breeze blew off the water, as the clouds shifted and made threats of rain on their way past.</div>
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The second was done at the Garvin Heights Lookout in Winona, Minnesota. (A popular spot, it seems, for both man and mosquito!) It's a beautiful view over the city and the water. Though I'd planned to try a sunset paint, I instead faced the other direction, loving the mood and atmosphere looking downriver towards rain.</div>
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H.C.H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06107042941243784060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328536506253519360.post-18269094684933575022017-07-16T21:25:00.000-05:002017-07-16T21:25:07.903-05:00May Flowers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
These two little paintings were done "alla prima" - all in one go, similar to how I do a plein air painting, but these were done indoors instead.</div>
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The first was a sweet, fragrant little bouquet of flowers picked in the yard the day before on Mothers Day: Lily of the Valley, Jacob's Ladder, Creeping Charlie, violets, and a little sprig of a Bridal Wreath bush that I caught in the door on my way in - oops!</div>
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The second was done later in the month when the bridal wreath bushes were in full bloom. (This time I cut some intentionally!)</div>
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These both went to new homes yesterday at the <a href="http://stockholmartfair.org/">Stockholm Art Fair</a> in pretty little Stockholm, Wisconsin. I hope they bring as much joy in their new homes as they did to me.</div>
H.C.H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06107042941243784060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328536506253519360.post-78875112053120828002017-06-27T18:08:00.000-05:002017-06-27T18:08:13.333-05:00Red Wing Plein Air - 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tuesday, June 20th</div>
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After checking in at the <a href="https://www.redwingartsassociation.org/">Depot Gallery</a> and getting a bunch of panels stamped for the event, I drove up to Memorial Park on Sorin's Bluff, which has a great view looking over the city, and is a perfect place for watching the sun set.</div>
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Painting a view like this is very different from what I usually paint, and trying to simplify all the shapes and colors of the houses and buildings and trees below was a big challenge for me. I liked the slanting shadows that could be seen across the street below, the bright greens of the trees and the clearing on the west end of Barn Bluff, and the long view over to Wisconsin in the distance.</div>
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Wednesday, June 21st.</div>
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Hiking up to the top of Barn Bluff with an easel and bag full of gear on my back isn't exactly enjoyable, but once at the top it is so worth it. The Prairie Trail wends its way through blowing grasses and wildflowers to the eastern tip of the bluff, which overlooks the head of Lake Pepin.</div>
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I really enjoyed working out in paint the shapes and patterns of the river here. A beautiful puzzle.</div>
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Notes for next time: Eat a bigger breakfast - cheddar crackers just don't cut it. Wear sunscreen - the wind may make using a hat or umbrella difficult.</div>
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Favorite overheard story while painting: "Grandma was smart to bring him up here! No wonder Grandpa fell in love with her!"</div>
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Dinner with some of my favorite painters, and then back out. I headed to Wacouta, where I also did some painting and exploring last year. Looks like the fields were planted with rye again - so pretty! And there was something very homey to me in the subtle, sweet fragrance of the field in the evening.</div>
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I walked down a little ways on Rattlesnake Bluff Trail to get closer to this corner with its contrast of shadow and light on the standing grain.</div>
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Thursday, June 22nd.<br />
Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain.<br />
A soggy, gray day. Artist Jim Turner suggested we go paint at <a href="http://kellystaphouse.com/cms/">Kelly's Taphouse</a>, as we'd seen a good viewpoint from their patio the day before. They were so gracious and let us move tables and chairs and set up our easels to get almost out of the rain. It was so wet and humid that Jim's watercolors wouldn't dry! My oils worked out a bit better. The rain came and went and came again, but all the moisture in the air lent a nice depth to the scene of boat houses and Barn Bluff. Of course, I like my trees, and these two stood out so full and sharp in the wet weather.<br />
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Late evening the clouds finally began to break, and I tried to capture a bit of that standing under Maiden Rock and looking out over Lake Pepin. When I was nearly finished, the sun broke through just before setting and the whole sky and river was aflame with pinks and orange and gorgeousness. I may have to attempt that scene in a studio painting in the future!</div>
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Friday, June 23rd.<br />
Headed out painting with Jim again, but I left him painting what would become an award winning piece, and backtracked to visit these cattle I'd seen on the way. This time of year is so green in Minnesota, but there are still a lot of variations and I want to be able to show the richness of the landscape without making it boring. There is always a lot to learn.<br />
The clouds began moving in as the day progressed, and their shadows moved across the growing corn in the field beyond the pasture.</div>
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In the afternoon I ended up at <a href="http://flowervalleyvineyard.com/">Flower Valley Vineyard</a> on Orchard Road. I'd driven past this barn before and knew I wanted to paint it. The dark clouds moving through set off its red sides nicely. It was built in 1872, and has beautiful stonework and narrow horizontal boards; barn swallows nest under its eaves.</div>
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The weather alternated between rain and sunshine, with occasional umbrella-flipping wind gusts.</div>
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Friday evening we all turned in three framed paintings to be hung for the show, and had a little gathering with the artists and arts association volunteers (and food!) which was really nice.</div>
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Saturday, June 24th.</div>
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Quick paint from 9 to 11 am! The sun came out just in time. The wind blew out of the north and it was surprisingly cold for a June day. Half-way through painting I ran back to my car to grab a sweater - it's hard to paint a straight line in the first place without adding shivering to the mix!</div>
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This spot is just across the street from the depot, and it always catches my eye. I liked how the morning light caught the wind-blown trees and grasses and made them stand out against the dark background of old brick.</div>
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This year's judge was <a href="http://www.joshuacunningham.com/JoshuaCunningham.com.html">Joshua Cunningham</a>. I became acquainted with him and his work the first year that I was part of this event - in 2011 - and have been a fan ever since. He did a demo in the afternoon, through occasional spits of rain and amidst a mostly shivering crowd of onlookers, who sometimes left to go find jackets or coffee. It was great to watch his painting develop and have a chance to ask questions. </div>
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I was surprised and so very grateful to receive Best of Show for my painting "Worth the Hike"!</div>
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I had a great time in Red Wing painting, and meeting and reconnecting with some wonderful people while there. Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen, and to those of you who stopped by the opening! The show will be up till July 30th, 2017. Stop in and see all the new work, and pick out your own favorites. :)</div>
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June 8, 2017</div>
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Perched on top of some round bales, overlooking the fields. Watching the clouds pile to the south and move to the east and the wind make waves in the tall grass, listening to the blackbirds and bobolinks call.</div>
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The grasses this time of year are full of texture and subtle colors as they flower and seed. The weedier parts of the fields are full of white cockle blooms and the tall flower spikes of yellow dock.</div>
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The sky was mostly clear towards the end of the first painting, but some distant clouds in the east showed pink as they caught the last light of the sunset.</div>
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There was just enough light, and just enough time, to paint another quick study: The moon rising above the southern-facing fields.</div>
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This is "my" barn, the poor old beauty. I can't fix it, so I keep on painting it.</div>
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The initial sketch-in:</div>
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Then, blocking in the colors, especially the highlights and shadows:</div>
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More detail, and blocking in the sky (and catching a few gnats in the wet paint!)</div>
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The finished painting:</div>
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I started this one pretty late, and used up every minute of daylight. Studying and painting the weathered wood and knots that still hold red paint on the faded north face, the milkhouse, the feed room, the lean-to. The long grass that surrounds it in the spring time, the beautiful old cupolas, with their touches of rust, that always catch the last of the light in the evening.</div>
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Here's looking at you, Barn.</div>
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