Abby Laux

Tag: field

  • 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…

  • Follow Me Here

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    I set up on a windy, rainy afternoon in a shelter house at Celestine Community Club to paint this little plein air piece. Because of the wind, I was thankful for my Take It Easel; it stayed put, and after using a bungee cord wrapped around the edges of my board, my canvas didn’t budge…

  • 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…

  • Scorhill Stone Circle

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    We hiked through the moors to this stone circle last summer in Dartmoor National Park, England.  While this stone circle only includes fairly small stones (3-4 feet high), we were completely alone in this vast open field.  I sat on a tuft of grass to sketch the circle while Kerry wandered off to explore a…

  • Generous Solace

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      I created this painting as a gift for my mom in memory of my late father.  Sunflowers and Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings were favorites of his.  Dad, also a landscape artist, put the first paint brush in my hands as a baby, took me to my first museum when I was five, and continues to…

  • 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…

  • Meadow Creek

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        This is another painting from Yosemite National Park.  I tried a violet underpainting this time.  In an effort to become more efficient at starting paintings, I used a larger brush to block in colors within a couple of hours.  Details and reworking took considerable time after that though.  

  • Sycamores in Winter

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    This winter of polar vortexes, possibly a result of climate change, did lend itself to a couple outdoor snow studies.  I started this particular one while my husband, nieces, and nephews went sled riding down the hill on the right.  I was drawn to the crispness of light and how the reduction of hues in…

  • A pause for a moment of togetherness

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    I recently had the honor of completing this commission for a guy who wanted to give a girl a Christmas gift that would commemorate her treasured memories of baseball games spent with a beloved grandfather.  The view of the field is from their usual seats when watching games together.

  • Hobbit Hill

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    Another plein air painting on a hillside near my studio that my husband and I always joke is our own hobbit hill…