100.  Original Plein Air Watercolor Painting, “Plein Air, 2-5:10pm, Tractor at Schick Ostolasa Farmstead, 10.7.24”, watercolor, 40 x 60”, 2024

Location: Eagle, ID

Event: Eagle Plein Air

Event Awards:  Best New Artist, Two Blue Ribbons, Best Water, 2nd Place Nocturne

Work-Specific Awards:Blue Ribbon

With a few good paintings already made for Eagle, and this event being the only one thus far on my schedule that, I was told had “no size limit”, I was eager to make something 40 x 60”, even though at the time I had no frame for such a work with me. Finer Frames, the host organization, made me a custom 40 x 60” frame on very short notice, so that I was able to include this work in the show. This farm was no longer a working farm, but one made up for show, including this beautiful tractor sitting pretty with staged hay. I had fun working on something a bit more complicated elementally than waves, sketching out the outlines of some key forms with light orange paint before diving in with fully chromatic washes and marks. This work won a blue ribbon.