Plein Air Painting in Historic Deadwood, SD
The theme was fittingly, historic Deadwood.
Lookout Mountain and Crow Peak
Before development of the land East of Spearfish, one could see vast open land, with the view of two local landmarks, Lookout Mountain and Crow Peak. Ironically, Lookout Mountain is really more of a peak, and Crow Peak is really more of a mountain! Lookout was originally called Lookout Peak, as it truly was used as a lookout point for …
Day Six of the Artist Exchange
Today we went to Kevin Costner’s interpretive center near Deadwood, called Tatanka. Tatanka is Lakota for Bison. This site has a intriguing meld of the history of the bison, and homage to the Native American way of life. In an introductory film of Costner’s dedication speech, he summed it up for me: the history of the Black Hills is one …
Painting at The Adams House
Our group went two different directions for awhile today, before meeting up in Deadwood for a wonderful meal at The Deadwood Social Club, above the famous Saloon Number 10. Mariethe’ Salort and I painted in Deadwood, SD today. Mariethe was interested in painting an old house, and liked the idea of a row of houses, so I showed her the …
Plein Aire Painting
Here we all are: at the Plein Aire painting event, hosted by The Blue Dog Gallery. We had an amazingly beautiful day: the weather was perfect, and the spot we chose to paint was by a babbling brook, with shade trees… it was a very nice time. There were visitors to the event, to watch us paint, and we had …
Underpainting
So, I ave begun a new set in my series of The Rendezvous. The Sioux tipi which is at Tatanka, Story of the Bison in Deadwood inspired me. This is an amazing place, conceived and built by actor Kevin Costner, following his making of the Dances with Wolves movie. http://www.storyofthebison.com I took photos looking up through the top of the …