In Plain Sight

24 x 48 Oil "A Farm in Spring" detail

This is a detail of a painting I created for the "In Plain Sight" show at the Bloomington Art Center, it features paintings myself, Scott Llyod Anderson, and Neil Sherman, and sculptures by Brian Young. The opening is tomorrow evening 6-8pm for more in info go to:
www.bloomingtonartcenter.com
The show is up until July 9th and there is an Artist Talk on June 17th.

I did this studio painting from a small plein air piece I had from 3 years ago, it just always seem that it would work bigger, and I think it does.

Limestone Steps

8x10 Oil

Painted this last Saturday after class, I loved the light on these steps and had to give it a try.

Old Twisited Tree

10x10 Oil

Yesterday was the perfect day to paint, sunny warm, no wind, so although I have a ton of studio work to finish up I had to get outside and paint something. I was really happy with the feel of the twisting and torquing of the trunks, it's one of those amazing old trees that is somehow still budding out new leaves.

This Friday the 23rd is the opening of the Spring Art Crawl for 2010. Please come visit me at my studio in the Northern Warehouse, Saint Paul Minnesota.

richard@richardabraham.com

Spring Grasses

8x10 Oil

This is small painting I did Easter Sunday, it was sunny in the morning but I didn't make it out until later in the day and completely overcast. So rather than the beautiful shadows I intended to paint I concentrated on the variety in the grass color, it really is great for a couple weeks until it all turns green.

Shore Thaw

9x12 Oil

Posts on consecutive days, I know, it's been a while. Did this last week at Lake Nakomis, beautiful day, not much to say the sun was shining the ice was melting, Spring.

Painting Backpack

8x8 Oil

While I've still been working out on location quite a bit, I've also produced a series of small still lifes of stuff from around the studio, they're fun to paint.

Lake Pepin Shore

11 x 14 Oil

Noticed that I was still getting traffic at my blog, who knew? So I thought I'd post some newer work. The irony is I've been in easily the most prolific span of painting in at least a year, I'm just terrible at keeping up with putting it out there.