En Plein Air: Light & Color

From Field to Studio

When I return from an outing or having been on location for a few days or weeks, I am brimming with ideas. Most of them are fairly ambiguous, and I know I need to let my mind settle or steep for a little while. I spend this time looking at photos and my sketchbook, doing little studies or starting to work on thumbnails for potential paintings. As a professional, there’s always emails to answer, the phone, and my family to distract me. In this aspect, the business of being a working artist means that I dedicate time to ...