Thursday, June 25, 2009

Upstate NY and Vermont





North Carolina







South Carolina







I've painted in South Carolina at Spring Island near Hilton Head twice.

Florida





I painted around Florida in 1994. I avoided Miami and the Condo Coast. A beautiful State Park Bahia Honda has always broken my heart to think how or if it has survived the onslaught of people. Most beautiful little beach in America.

I had a want to find the Roseate Spoonbills. It became a quest for that almost absurd looking bird.I found them at Ding Darling. I was bitten into Hamburger meat at Echo Pond at the end of the Everglades, but made some terriffic paintings there.

They call the State Parks the other Florida, and it certainly is almost empty compared to the coast.

Sierras from Bishop


Deep Springs College





I was asked to teach at Deep Springs College in 1995. It is a ranch were the students read Nietzsche and Melville in the desert. They birth cattle in the winter night and we painted the surroundings.

Monument Valley






I try to go each year to Monument Valley and paint.