Abby Laux

Category: Landscape Sketches

  • Plein air painting the yellow fields

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      Here I am participating in Dubois County Art Guild’s Plein Air Event in May.  I got third place in the quick draw-that painting is not shown because it sold and silly me forgot to take a photo first- and also third place in the Plein Air contest.  I always wanted to paint the bright…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Ireland sketch

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    While on a trip around Europe last year, I hiked along this eastern coast of Ireland.  Scrambling down the cliff to reach sea level, I did this little pen sketch of the rocky coast and lighthouse.  A couple of ladies came down to the same cove and preceded to skinny dip in the space in…

  • The Coast

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      Last fall we visited some friends on the West Coast and took a day to relax at the beach.  I did a small sketch on location, reveling in the geometric forms of the rocks.  This spring I painted this  little blue painting from photographs I took that day.  I really enjoyed getting to paint…

  • Early Light

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      In 2009, I took a family trip with my husband, mom, sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, and two close family friends, Collin and Kathy Staley to Glacier National Park.  It was a bittersweet trip-the last one we were able to take with Collin, who was undergoing chemo at the time, but the first of many we…

  • The Cedar

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    The corn field in front of our house has a lone cedar tree on its edge, and when the winter sun sets in the valley, one strip of sunlight illuminates it and the golden field right before dusk.  I started this painting at a workshop I taught at the French Lick Artisan Gallery this past…

  • Snow Creek

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     Snow Creek, 2014, oil, 36 x 48 in During an evening walk, my husband and I wandered up this small creek with exposed bedrock.  The setting sun warmed the snow with an orange glow, and the remaining beech leaves shone as if fragments of stained glass hung in the air.