8″x8″ oil on panel. Lake Texoma,TX.
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”
-Bernard Williams
Rooster Morning Light
8″x8″ oil on panel
It took this beautiful rooster almost 18 months to find his voice, and each day he seems to find it a little louder and a little earlier.
Sunset Lake Texoma
8″x8″ oil on panel
“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.”
-Pamela Hansford Johnson
Snowy Plein Air
8″x10″ oil on panel
Thank goodness for warm boots!
Cross Timbers Trail
10″x8″ oil on panel
Cross Timbers trail on Lake Texoma.
Snow Day
9″x12″ Oil on board
“A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.”
-Susan Orlean
This week I have enjoyed hand-me-down snow clothes from friends and family, play with my children, hot chocolate, and time to paint with a good friend. It was a good week.
Mid Winter Mid Day
Delightful day painting with a friend. North Texas was beautiful today.
Last Light Texas, Hill Country
10″x8″ oil on canvas panel
It was fun to use a few brushstrokes of light and dark to hint at the prickly pears that were quickly fading into the hills.
Texas Hill Country Sunset
10″x8″ oil on canvas panel
Sunrise, Bandera, TX – imagined
The 100K race just closed. Our last runner came in just after midnight, so we were all warm and snug this morning. I painted the sunrise from memories of what I have seen in Bandera, and what I imagined could have been. The temperature was between 29 and 32 all day and night. It rained on and off. Trail running is the only place in my life where people voluntarily push themselves to the limit, and then willing accept help from strangers when they are vulnerable. It is crazy and beautiful all mixed together. So we are headed home with a car of wet, muddy gear and family and friends that grew closer making it so.
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