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Local Color

  • Mar 25

Staying close to home has its advantages. More time to create. Less time spent traveling. Truth be told I’m not great at hitting the ground running when it comes to painting. On new turf it seems I need a little time to get in touch with the spirit of the place before I become productive. 


Here’s a painting done from a sketch I did just across the bridge over the Flathead River on Montana Highway 82. I hesitate to think how many thousands of times I’ve crossed that bridge in the past 68 years!


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Marshall

Change of Seasons

  • Mar 20

Every season has a uniqueness that inspires me. But it’s the change of seasons that I find most stimulating. This painting, from a few years back, was made at the end of a dry summer, just when the canopy of leaves was starting to turn. The small pond is a couple miles north of Bigfork, Montana, just east of my studio.


Inspiration is never far away!


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Marshall




Warm Light Behind

  • Mar 11

When I’m close to bringing a painting to the finish line I like to take a long, careful look. After years of painting, and years of looking at paintings, I recognize four elements that I’ve come to recognize as important, if not essential for me. Those four are: thick paint against thin paint, warm colors next to cool colors, light against dark, and soft edge next to hard edge.


Even on a tiny painting like this they make things work for my eye.


Let's keep in touch,


Marshall

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