My life has taken on a teaching aspect. When you are teaching invariably you are also learning. It is a continuum.
This day of painting was an unexpected treat. When a lovely plein air enthusiast was seeing the Yellowstone for the first time, I too was gifted by her vision. One can feel the new liveliness as the grasses seem to grow inches every day. Trees and blossoms are all on their own unique spring schedule. Even the Farmer's Market begins its season in Livingston this week.
Soon there will not be a moment without rafts and drift-boats meandering here. But today, as we watched the high water giving its lifeblood to the shore grasses and hunting eagles and diving ducks, it was just me and my fellow painters. I love how each person painting brings their own particular life and vision. No one in the world sees this river exactly the same way. And in our pictures we get to show what it is we bring.
There is light flowing along with the water in the Yellowstone.
The elixir of the ages. I love that the water in this watercolor IS the river. One place the water is flowing, is into this painting.
This painting is 9"x12" on 140 lb cold pressed paper