New moose sculpture on it's way...

Detail of the moose in clay and wax.... soon to be in bronze!

John just finished a new moose sculpture that is on it's way to becoming bronze. We should have the 'finished product' in the gallery within a couple months. Check back - we'll have photos posted 'hot' from the foundry.

wildlife galore out our windows....

We live in an amazing place (I know I've said that before). I took some photos over the weekend out the windows. Here are some of our wildlife sightings. Almost unbelievable what we can see in a day right out the window. I missed the photo of the kestrel pair, mergansers and the osprey with a trout in his talons, but here are some of the other highlights....Otter at the riverOsprey fishingPronghorn / antelope

Fawn on the bank (There were two, but the other is hidden by the tree).

Some photos from the week...

Early Light by Shirl Ireland 8"x24" Oil

Painted plein air during the Plein Air on the Yellowstone week long event

This painting took Third Place in the Show of wet paintings at the end of the week.

Early Retirement 8" x 12" Oil

Plein Air Painting Event TONIGHT

If you're anywhere NEAR the Livingston Center for Art and Culture (on Main Street in Livingston, MT) come on by tonight for the grand finale of the week. About 20 artists (including me!) have been painting up a storm outside in Park County. Now, we're framing and hanging 3 wet paintings for the show tonight between 5:30pm and 9:00pm. The show will also be hanging tomorrow, if you can't make it tonight. Hope to see you there....

In between plein air painting this summer ('tis the season!), I have fit in some studio painting, too. This was done during one of our Art Live! events here at the Gallery this summer - when we invited people in to 'watch the process'. So if you were here watching it's creation - you can now see the finished product!... I love seeing bison in the geyser basin by Old Faithful - it's a quintessential Yellowstone image to me. For the composition, I concentrated on creating interesting shapes on the canvas. And the warm and cool colors made it fun to paint. Over the years, I've collected some great antique frames - this is one of them. I thought it went really well with the painting.

Amazing sights right out our windows....

We were just watching a new elk calf nursing out the gallery windows - right across the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park. As we were watching an osprey landed in the tree tops over the river. It's an amazing place we live - I don't think it gets any better than this....

Carol Guzman - June 11th

Carol Guzman, a very good friend (aka 'painting sister') is having a show of her bird paintings at the Tierney Gallery on Main Street in Bozeman, MT. www.carolguzman.com The opening is this Friday, June 11 from 6pm - 8pm. I paint with Carol often, so I've seen a lot of the pieces in the Show - it will definitely be worth the trip! We're certainly looking forward to it. It coincides with Bozeman's first Art Walk of the season, so there will be lots going on. Should be a great art night out - hope to see you there!