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After my Hannibal workshop we made our way upriver to Quincy Illinois for a visit with my very dear friend, Pat Surface. My first official visit to Quincy was orchestrated by Pat years ago. I fell in love with the place and made some great friends there. Pat ordered pizza and we caught up on…

This weekend I had a quick trip to Hannibal MO for a one-day landscape workshop. For my demo painting I recreated one of my more notorious pieces, the Missouri State Quarter design. This group was filled with old friends and some new ones. We had a fast, fun Saturday and shared some good ideas. I…

These are some fantastic painters that I had the pleasure of spending a colorful weekend with. They taught me a few new painting trucks, introduced me to some cool new music and helped me coin the phrase "umber happens".

The colors of the fall were in full array this weekend. It was fun to interpret the blazing trees. My workshop artists had plenty to keep them challenged!

It's warm indoors today!

My workshop was out in the fall weather yesterday morning. The cold snap made it a little tough to hold a paintbrush, but the fall colors warmed us on the inside. We did our best to soak as much of it in as possible. The rest of the weekend we'll be painting inside the art…

Right on time for my workshop, the fall colors in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park do not disappoint! I'll have to pull out my tube of Perinone Orange. I have a speaking engagement tonight at the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center, then will be painting in the park with my workshop tomorrow morning.

The jetlag of coming home from Italy has given me plenty of time to download photos in the middle of the night. I'll have to adjust quickly and head for a fall foilage landscape workshop in Ohio next week. My dreams are filled with Italy and my new friends from that adventure. I miss them…