In the background is the Monterey Peninsula.

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] Why I Paint n Copying the landscape or rendering precisely the arrangement of objects in a still life set before me, even though what is before me may move me with its beauty and, indeed, has moved me to paint it, is not what I am trying to do with my painting. For me, copying the world is best done with photography or super-realism. n After spending too many years trying to apprehend that beauty by rendering the […]

“I was the only son of my mother and father, and I was exceedingly aspiring, and my daring was very great. I thought there was no enterprise in the world too mighty for me….and after I had achieved all the adventures that were in my own country, I equipped myself, and…at length it chanced that I came to the fairest valley in the world…” -Thomas Bulfinch (1796–1867). Age of Fable: Vol. III: The Age of Chivalry.  1913. The following is an account of my trip to compete in Plein Air Easton 2008 in Easton, Maryland. Plein Air Easton is a plein air […]