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Do You Remember?

Arizona at Pearl Harbor

Memory is one of those functions of the brain that is most taken for granted, until it begins to slip away. God gave us the awesome creation of the brain… a small computer in our head that does all kinds of incredible things day in and day out. Recall of past events is one of …

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Painting on Oahu

Plein Air on Oahu, Hawaii

Spring of 2016 turned out to be quiet a spring. The first of May I was painting in Italy (Texas), and by the end of the month I was set up on the beaches of Oahu. An awesome place to paint, and visit friends. I had to make paint box form materials from Asel Art …

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Southern Engineering

Homemade Pochade box mounted on tripod

To say that I love(d) my Jullian Plein Air Easel would be an understatement. I really loved everything about it, especially the fact that is was made of real wood, had cool hardware, folded and I could throw it on my back using the leather straps I added when I bought the easel back in …

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Miller Paints the Millers

Colleyville Garden Club Plein Air

The Colleyville Garden Club invited a few artist to setup and paint at some of the homes that were participating in the 22nd Promenade Garden Tour in Colleyville, Texas. The selected homes had beautiful landscaping and gardens, and the Dale Miller home I was assigned was one of the best looking on the tour. The visual treats …

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Paint Historic Terrell

Unique shot of the Carnegie Library, build by Dale Carnegie in 1904

Beginning April 14th and running through April 23, the North East Texas Fine Art Alliance sponsored the Paint Historic Terrell Plein Air event in and around Downtown Terrell, Texas. Terrell was established in 1873 as a railroad town, and was named for Robert A. Terrell, a pioneer who originally came from Murfreesburo,Tennessee. The weather did …

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Paint the Glen

Kent Brewer and Steve Miller at Barnard's Mill and Art Museum

The annual “Paint the Glen” Plein Air Event that is sponsored by the Barnard Mill Art League, kicked off Saturday morning, April 9th, with an unofficial “nocturne” outing Friday night, April 8th. See bottom of page for more. Spring in Glen Rose, Texas is always beautiful. Bluebonnets, Indian Paintbrushes and cactus add to the fresh …

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The Good News of Christmas

Norman Rockwell's painting - Christmas Homecoming, painted in 1948

Christmas is a favorite time of year for many people. I love it myself. Celebrations of Christmas can be seen in the many and varied trappings of this holiday. All kinds of traditions have been mixed together to create an eclectic holiday that sparks all kinds of reactions in our culture. And, all this Christmas lore can …

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Bridges

Limited palette for Plein Air on Panel called Over and Under

Saturday, October the 17th was the first day of the Paint Rowlett Plein Air Event. When I headed out to participate in the paint out, my easel was still loaded with the limited palette I had used in a John Pototschnik workshop mentioned in previous post. It was a Quadratic Square, with Violet, Red Orange, Yellow and Blue …

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Gold in Them Hills

Quadratic Square Palette -

My wife and I were blessed to take a trip back across the “River”, the mighty Mississippi, to visit family. Our trip really began with Memphis, (where our daughter, son-in-law and grand kids live) then through Nashville, Chattanooga, and a stop in Cleveland (Tennessee) where my son lives, along with my favorite mother-in-law :-). Fall is one …

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Seven-State Biennial Exhibition

Selected entries into the Seven-State Biennial Exhibition

I was recently blessed with news of the acceptance of two works in oil into the 2015 Seven-State Biennial Exhibition. The Juried exhibition is unique in that it begins September 26, 2015 at The Nesbitt Gallery, located on the campus of the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha, Oklahoma and ends on the 31st …

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The Pease Revisited

Plein air oil on panel of Pease River in panhandle of Texas

There are places on this earth, landscapes and environments, which are beautiful. Beautiful in a quiet, peaceful benevolent kind of way. Words like paradise, or utopia or heaven might be used to describe them. There are other places, other landscapes that are equally beautiful, equally magnificent. It’s a solid, timeless beauty – crisp and quiet. …

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Artist ‘Round Texas Pastel Demo

The warm and neighborly members of Rowlett’s “Artist ‘Round Texas” art organization invited me to their June meeting to demonstrate my method of working in soft pastels on sanded surfaces. The subject for this demo was an old barn my wife and I came across in east Tennessee. As I normally do, I began with an explanation …

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