Abby Laux

Tag: tree

  • Resilient painting

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    This painting comes from a hike this past winter in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.  The vividness of the moss in winter is so striking.  Much of the park was settled, logged and in threat of being clear cut before it was made a national park.  I love the idea that the trees have…

  • Paintings from Shenandoah National Park Hike

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    These two paintings come from the same hike in Shenandoah National Park.  It was a misty, foggy morning so we did not get a view from the top, but there were some wonderfully moody and atmospheric settings.  I really liked the gnarly old trees and waist-deep ferns on this hike.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • The Cove

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    Working to improve my efficiency with colors and values, I have been working on these smaller plein air paintings.  I want to be able to quickly and effectively give a sense of the space of a scene.

  • Stand

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    Here is another little plein air painting I completed this summer at Spring Mill State Park in Indiana.  It was a hot, humid, 90-degree day, hence the intensity of the light on the field behind this stand of trees.