Studio Insiders Blog — White Mountain National Forest
The Studio Sale: 2020 Edition
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My Annual Studio Sale has begun. Here are all the details on discounts, freebies, buy-one-get-one-free deals and other fun. Happy shopping!
Great Routes in the White Mountains: Ammonoosuc Ravine to Mount Washington and down the Jewell Trail
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The hiking season is in full swing, but it was only the weekend of June 16, just days before the summer solstice, that I got out on the trails for the first time! Horrors! Fortunately I was invited on a work trip to help guide a fantastic group of hikers to Lakes of the Clouds Hut on Mount Washington in the beautiful White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire, so off I went!
The latest large scale oil on canvas painting from my studio. Watch me paint!
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Here's what I've been up to in the studio for the last few months! Watch an amazing cloudscape come together in this timelapse of my oil on canvas painting "Osgood Trail, Mount Madison, N.H." painted between February and April 2017. This is over twenty hours of painting time condensed into about a minute and half!
The Story Behind the Painting: Crawford Path on Mount Washington
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At first the day seems chilly. Clouds envelope the hut where I stayed the night before all through the early morning as I carefully repack my pack for the day’s hike. At breakfast the fog begins to lift under the force of shifting winds and a few cups of coffee. Views of the valley appear and vanish, to small gasps of other guests as they catch a flash of green and blue behind the white veil. Eventually the clouds drop below us, revealing the blue dome above. A frenzy of activity ensues as we hikers rush to get out on...
Painting from the White Mountains: "Cloudsweep," A Grand Oil on Canvas
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This year's painting trip to New Hampshire's White Mountains led to the creation of this grand oil on canvas, "Cloudsweep," depicting Star Lake on the Presidential Range.