Abby Laux

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  • Beyond the Next Bend landscape painting

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    I stayed in Gimmelwald, a small village in the Swiss Alps, last summer with my husband.  We would get up early in the morning to hike up farther into the mountains on a trail that went straight up from our village.  At the top of a steeply inclined field, there was a bench that overlooked the…

  • Green Tal landscape painting

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    In the words of travel writer Rick Steves,  “If Heaven isn’t what it’s cracked up to be, send me back to Gimmelwald.”  I spent four days in this area last summer hiking and sketching; it felt like an isolated paradise floating above the rest of the world.  One always had a sense of the height…

  • Blue Ridge oil painting

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    Here’s a painting from my trip to the Swiss Alps last summer.  We stayed in Gimmelwald in the Bernese Oberland Region.  My husband and I joked that every place we stood was a 45 degree angle.  This painting became about the sharp angles of the mountains.  I tried to balance the negative slope of the…

  • Spring Begins Plein Air Painting

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    It’s wonderful when the weather turns and it’s warm enough to enjoy being outside again.  I painted this small painting in a creek near my house early this spring when the redbuds were blooming and the  leaves of the undergrowth were just starting to pop.  There’s an interesting contrast in the woods at that time between…

  • Oberhofen sketch

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    This is the last sketch from my Europe trip sketchbook.  I sat in the gardens of the Oberhofen Castle and drew this view across Lake Thun.   I was intrigued with the unique shapes of the mountains.  There was a worn softness to them that was fun to put to page.

  • Sketches from Berner Oberland

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      Theses are a couple of really quick sketches from hiking in Berner Oberland, just quick stops along the path.

  • Photo book published

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    A Lilly TripbyAbby Laux | Make Your Own Book I finished creating this photo book of our trip to Ireland, England, France, and Switzerland.  The page layouts were created in Photoshop, and I then uploaded the book to Blurb.com to publish.

  • Lake Geneva sketch

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    The day we arrived in Lausanne, we were travel-worn and at the part in our trip when we just needed a lazy day.  We walked a beautifully landscaped path along Lake Geneva and sat to sketch the vineyard-covered hills rising from the lake. That evening, we picniced in a park and went to sleep to…

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      Here’s a quick sketch and notes I did while waiting for a train in Paddington Station.

  • Hay Tor

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    England’s Dartmoor National Park has large granite outcroppings called tors.  Hay Tor is one of the most impressive and popular.  There are small footholds and handholds to scramble to the top.  After exploring the rock structure, I sat in the field in front of the tors to make a quick graphite sketch.  Like everywhere we…