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Easy hikes with great views in Glacier and Badlands National Parks.

Updating a post from last year, I recently started an early spring landscape with an early morning clear "blue" sky. Capturing the...

Listen to the music of the waterfall! Take a trip to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, to the National Parks of Yellowstone and Glacier. ...

Art can be a continuous learning experience! In this StudioSense YouTube video of my latest pastel painting, "Saddle Pass Trail," check...

As I build my new collection of pastel paintings depicting the beauty and awe of our National Parks, I am offering up to 50% off on...

This acrylic paint underpainting for my pastel "Spirit in the Sky" appears worthy of being a painting all by itself! It was great fun...

5 awesome views and hikes in Glacier National Park.

You've got to visit Hocking Hills State Park!

The Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor, MI., will host an exhibit featuring my landscapes of the National Parks, as well as fantastic...

One year ago to this day, I went on a cross-country ski jaunt to a local park. I hang a camera from my shoulder when I ski. It...

North Cascades National Park is rich in cascading rivers, waterfalls and pristine, glacial-fed lakes. While hiking in the North Cascades...

Each painting is an experience, a visit to a place where the artist's mind delves deep into the feelings of that special moment,...

Well actually, I drowned in the beauty of Avalanche Lake, and I survived to enjoy crafting this landscape in pastel. There are a variety...

Sunday, June 26 2022, 4:15 am, Chamberlain, South Dakota. The evening's storms and their 70 MPH winds have passed, as we battled the...

Join me on my StudioSense YouTube Channel for a demo on creating an impressionistic pastel painting! Click here for the demo! Here's the...

Juried pastel exhibits tend to run from February to October each year. This year's two final exhibits featuring my landscape pastels will...

"Maelstrom" is a 12x16 pastel on Uart 400 grade pastel paper, inspired by a hike at Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. The...

At a Landscape in Pastel class I taught at the Michigan Art Center, we spent some time reviewing the variety of tree trunk textures and...

Hocking Hills State Park is a wonderful landscape to explore in Logan, Ohio, a bit south of Columbus. The landscape is similar to...