An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

This is a painting I started awhile ago from a photo I took at the River Walk in San Antonio. It's a famous location for paintings...I...

Our little lake Tippecanoe in northern WI has a number of islands...one "set of islands" we dub Blueberry and "little" B...

When you have a ton of company...and it's 98 in the shade...sometimes en plein air painting just needs to be in your own back yard! Thi...

You will remember last month sometime I was working on some oak leave/acorn images for the Seno Woodland Center? Well, this month, my frien...

My friend, Lou, from Canada and I spend the winter in Florida exploring art. This year Lou was wondering if we could, among other things, d...

Here I am at the opening evening of the Manito Art League show (Wed July 13th). A lovely event with wonderful food, good music, and a crowd...

Today I helped to judge at the Arbor Vitae Arts and Crafts show. Very fun! Lots of nice art to see and enjoy with everything from fine art ...

I spent an hour or so touching up the en plein air sketch that I blocked in yesterday. We all got rained out about an hour or so after we s...

We got rained out at en plein air today...I had just enough time to take a photo and do a little blocking in. Now I will have to finish up ...

Here I am about 10:30 am this morning on a beautiful almost sultry summer day (the last day of June) en plein air painting with friends from...

One of the fun things about blogging are all the interesting people who you "cyber meet" and learn from. Barb (her blog is under ...

Well, this photo looks a tad "pinker" than it really is...it's really more purplish. My ideas is to get away from traditional...

I recently wrote an email note to my former roommate from college. Now note, I did not say my OLD roommate from college. This would predic...

One really nice thing about the iPad as a resource for photos is the ability to go back and look at a painting and use some of the original ...

Well, it's time to re-visit the oak leave/acorn commission in a slightly more "botanical" way. Come to find out what Kendra ...

Well, actually my en plein didn't get "rained" out, it got "darkened" and "cloudied" out. My spell checke...

Last summer, this was my first en plein air painting of the season. I tucked it away intending (don't we always) to finish it up and pu...

An interesting project has come up for my weekend painting. My friend, Kendra, wants to put a "logo" on some stationery and broch...

So the first image is an en plein air I did at the North woods Discovery Center late last summer. It never was "finished" and I wa...

On Friday we worked on several ideas...John took our questions and suggestions and tried some different genres of paintings to show how his ...