My friend Myrrh Haslam and I headed west of Houston about an hour to paint. The forcast called for a chance of rain with a big green blob on the radar heading our direction. But we decided to go anyway. We left at 7:00 a.m. and after about 45 minutes of driving we could see

Myrrh and I have loved driving west of Houston to paint so much that we decided we would paint for two days and spend the night in a hotel in the area. We left Houston at 6:30 a.m. and were painting this red barn by 8:30 a.m. We had actually seen it on a previous

Beach Houses  10″x12″ oil on canvas It’s that time of year again when the American Impressionist Society Exhibition deadline is here! I had paintings in mind to paint specifically for this competition, that would be the “great paintings I need to paint for AIS” that I kept telling myself to do. But in the end,

It’s getting hot here in Texas but not too hot to stop us from going out and painting plein air. At least not yet. Myrrh and I headed west of Houston to Bellville a couple of days ago. We met in a Target parking lot at 2:30 in the afternoon and headed west down I-10.

We had some clouds and even some much needed rain, but on the second evening the skies were clearing and I painted this from the dock in front of my mother in law’s house in the Texas Hill Country. The sky color and cloud patterns were changing by the minute so I was painting as

Round Top Church  6″x8″ o/c  SOLD My friend Myrrh and I had another great day of painting. We left Houston early for Round Top, a small town an hour and a half northwest of Houston. We found a perfect place to paint, a wide spot off a farm road with views of fields, cows, haybales