About two hundred years ago, Masters of Impressionism you may know such as Monet, Degas, Pissaro, Renoir, and more created paintings outdoors or “en plein air” to gain a new perspective capturing light and color. After many quarrels with L’Ecole des Beaux Arts, these artists boldly traded highly esteemed traditions for individual expression. Rather than …
Centennial Park in Downtown Nashville was a three hour drive from my house. Before traveling for a wedding weekend, I realized I would have some down time while the wedding party, including Drew, attended to their details. I piled my painting supplies in my dark blue, well-worn backpack, and my husband dropped me at the …
Sunday morning brought warm sunshine and cool breezes as I slung my painting backpack over my shoulder and bounded toward the overlook. My brushes and tripod awkwardly stuck out of the front and sides of my pack like tree branches. My friend Laura took me on a walk in her backyard- Little River Canyon! I …
We went now for a long time over grass, gently but steadily upward, making for a ridge so high and so near that the true Mountain was quite out of sight. When we topped it, and stood for a while to let the horse breathe, everything was changed. And my struggle began. We had come …
When summer lies upon the world, and in noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves, where dreams of trees unfold, When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the west, Come back to me, come back, Say my land is best! -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Ent and the Entwife One thing …