I reside in a beautiful rural section of North Carolina, with my wife and two daughters. It is a fine place to paint outside, en plein aire, and that is where I do most of my work these days. My first experiences of working out under the skies were liberating for me as an artist, I no longer had to stand around in my studio and contrive and agonize my paintings. Trial and error and guesswork were replaced by accurate observation and adequate execution. My on location paintings started receiving the best kind of attention, the kind with a check attached.
Business is still relatively steady.
I went on-line this morning to find what I could about on location painting techniques. Fortunately, I discovered your enormously generous web site. I spent a good part of the day reading the course sections and taking notes and then I began to give your paintings a serious look. They have that indescribable, luminous and timeless quality that spills out of a great painting. The quality emanating from your paintings, transmits well over the internet.