New Work for Russell Week

                                            Huddle,  oil on board,  11 x 14" ,  $600.




     Russell Week, for those of you non western art followers,  is a big week for western art in, of all places,  Great Falls, Montana, where I went to high school.   I never would have thought in the 60's that Great Falls would become an art town.  But,  thanks to Charles Marion Russell and his followers,  the C.M. Russell Museum started an annual auction and it has grown into one of the biggest auctions of western art bringing in over $1 million in sales.  The major hotels turn their rooms into galleries for the hundreds of artists that come to exhibit their paintings and  sculpture.

      I will be participating for the first time in the Out West Art Show in the Heritage Inn.  The dates are March 17th - 19th.  Room 175.  

      The image above is one of the new pieces that I will be exhibiting in the show.

Days 14 & 15

People ask me if I miss the ocean.  No, I don't.  What the ocean is for me as a painter is a horizontal plane that reflects light.  Here in Montana the fields of grass and snow serve that purpose.  They are all horizontal planes that reflect the light.  The snow this winter is especially beautiful on the fields.  It is rarely white.  

   Winter Herd,  oil , 6 x 6"

$100,  unframed,  free shipping

Trees Near Elliston,  pastel, 6 x 6"

$100,  unframed,  free shipping

Day 9 & 10

Yow,  missed yesterday so I'll post two today to catch up.  30 in 30 days means painting on weekends, too!

  I'm still really taken with the winter light around here and how pink and blue the snow is on the mountains and on the ground.  

  Valley Grazing,  oil on board, 6 x 8" 

 $100,  ready to frame, free shipping

           

       Mt Helena with Cattle,  oil on board,  6 x 8"