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Hollyhocks and Corn Fields | plein air painting at the University of Minnesota

Hollyhocks and Crop Fields, 8x10 August 12, 2009

I got a call on Sunday morning from my mother asking if I was out plein air painting yet.  I was off to a late start, but I figured  she wasn’t at church either, so we were even.  Neither one of us was doing what we normally would do on a Sunday.  It turns out that [...]

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Sunflowers Plein Air | outdoor still life painting

July 19, 2009
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I remember how much I loved sunflowers when I was a kid.  We had a patch of them growing alongside the house, next to the kitchen window.  As I recall, the height of those sunflowers was pretty incredible especially to a kid of 7 or 8 year.
These  sunflowers were painted from life right in my own backyard. [...]

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Front Yard Peonies | plein air painting close to home

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Front Yard Peonies
Oil on linen panel
8×10″
Check out Jeffrey Smith Art on Etsy for purchase inforamtion on this painting.
This has been a strange spring in Minnesota.  Over all, it has been pretty cold.  Plants are blooming much later this year than they normally do.  That’s okay. It just means more time to enjoy the flowers of spring.  [...]

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Ranunculus and Apples| Still Life Painting on a Mission

May 14, 2009

I have been out exploring the world the last few weeks, armed only with my pochade box and paints.  Today, however, I returned to the studio to complete the above floral painting that will be part of a live auction to benefit a local school. 
This will mark my second year working with the organization.  Prior to last year’s event, [...]

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Pears and Flowers, work in progress.

April 25, 2009

The image above is a work in progress shot of the still life that I’ve been working on in my studio.  In setting up this painting, my plan was to create an arrangement that would allow me to really push some of the visual textures.  We have the rough wood of my studio table, the glass pitcher, [...]

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Blue Pot, Orange Begonia

March 11, 2009

I had a few hours to get into the studio today, and thought this would be a great chance to revisit this wonderful potted begonia.  It has been bringing a touch of spring to my studio for the last few weeks.  I really needed it today.  The high here in Minnesota didn’t reach much above [...]

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Forsythia and Copper Canister, final

March 8, 2009

I do love reaching the end of a painting! I had such a wonderful working on this piece.  I has been far too long a break from pastel this time, and I’m thrilled to be back at it.
To celebrate my last day in the studio with my forsythia painting up on the easel, I put [...]

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Forsythia and Copper Canister, update #2

March 4, 2009

I’ve been digging through my boxes of pastels to find colors that I can use to unify areas of the painting.  To do this, I try to find a color that can be applied to a few different objects. 
An example would be the light blue that I was able to use in the background, the [...]

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Forsythia and Copper Canister, work in progress update

February 28, 2009

I finally got back over to the studio today.  We have been moving from an apartment in the Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis, to our first house, over in Saint Paul!  I’m thrilled to be living back in Saint Paul, but moving is a lot of work! Every time that I’ve done it, I swear [...]

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Forsythia and Copper Canister, work in progress.

February 25, 2009

Today I thought it would be great to have another dose of spring.  I have loved forsythia since I was a kid.  I have some great memories of a forsythia bush that we had in our backyard that you could actually crawl inside of.  It was like being surrounded by sunshine!
This is a work in progress [...]

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