If you’re in the Durham/Chapel Hill area and interested in plein air painting, please sign up for my seven-Saturday course at the Carrboro Arts Center. It’s up to a group vote, but we’re scheduled to visit spots at Duke Forest, the Botanical Gardens and Northwoods trails. Questions? Drop me a line.
(Click here to see more of my plein air paintings.)
My dad’s and my exhibit ends Saturday, July 30 – the same day, there’s a closing party from 1-3 pm at The Art Station gallery. There were over sixty of my paintings and more than thirty of my dad’s sculptures. Ryan Karpinsky, Roy Woods, Ted, Tammy Cantrell and everyone at The Art Station are doing a great job getting a new gallery off the ground in Gastonia!
These rocks are near marker 22 on the Wormhole Loop in Carolina Northwoods Forest in Chapel Hill. They caught my eye during a run and came to mind for the next painting. A smooth slope, from bikers and runners, is worn into the side closest to the viewer. Over 22 more years, I can make paintings for each marker along the trail.
Wormhole 22
This is another spot at Hard Climb Hill. A water snake, which I’m fairly certain was a copperhead was my companion this time. Please let me know if you can tell from the picture if it’s a copperhead or not. The snake was a big one and hung out most of the time under an underwater log just below the tree in the painting. I visited a couple of times, so I’m also posting the painting as it was in progress. I liked the reflections of the leaves in the water in the bottom left in the earlier version. Oil on board.
New Hope Riverbank
