Abby Laux

Tag: rocks

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…