Author Archive for: Dave
Entries by David Collins
“Lakeland – Tapestries, an Un Mural Art Exhibition”
For me, it’s always about, what’s next I love public art. I’ve done lots of things, but the things I enjoyed the most were creating 3D anamorphic chalk art on Lakeland streets, painting a 18 foot tall giraffe on a tree in Munn Park and collaborating with Meredith Pope to create “Clearly People”, a packaging […]
“Before the Storm”
“Before the Storm”, Open Acrylic on Canvas, 12″ x 24″ I was at the Black Mountains overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway, milepost 342.2. My intention was to paint a sunset, so I set up around 5pm and started blocking in the shapes using darker than normal midtones anticipating sundown. When plein air painting, I […]
“Standing Tall”
“Standing Tall”, 12″ x 16″ Open Acrylic on Canvas I was parked at the Buck Spring Gap overlook on the the Blue Ridge Parkway on Mount Pisgah. The rains came and went, the clouds billowed and subsided, sheltered by the rear door I painted anyway. It was a great day.
Black Balsam Looking West
The elevation at this site is close to 6000 ft. The grasses and underbrush which were brightly colored just two weeks ago have died back. The temperature was in the forties while painting even though the sky was clear and the sun was out. The wind made it feel much colder. At 6000 ft., […]
Morning Fog
At first I grumbled to myself because there was so much fog that I couldn’t paint the vista I wanted to paint. After waiting for over an hour and continuing to grumble because of what I couldn’t see, I realized, duh, that what I could see was amazing. Maybe I learned something.
First of 2016
It was cold, overcast and windy . . . just another great day to paint.
A View from Big Ridge Overlook
If your looking for color, it may be just around the next corner or not. Depending on the direction that a ridge faces, its elevation, type of trees, rain fall and etc., the color comes and goes. But, the color gets more intense every day.
Graveyard Fields from Black Balsam
It was a bright day despite the haze that spent the day with me while painting. I finished as the clouds rolled in, it was a good day. There are different theories as to why it is called “Graveyard Fields” but the one I like, is that after a fire some hundred years ago, that […]
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