Interstate Park twice...

I haven't been out painting much lately, and when I have, twice in the last week, it's been to go just down the street to the Interstate Park on the Minnesota side. The first one I painted Saturday the 14th of August, the day after my workshop here in Taylors Falls wound up. Friends and students in the workshop Bruce Newman, Annie Compton and Linda Epstein stayed a day extra and were there painting too, so I joined them.

The water was high then, but yesterday a week later it's even higher from all of the rain the region's been having. Makes for some interesting patterning on the surface and lot's of foam from the spill coming over the dam in St. Croix Falls, WI just up river.

I met some nice people, had a few jokesters too... But best of all I met a young artist named Steven ( about 11 or12 yrs old, a guess... sorry Steven if I'm off by a lot) and his parents. Steven is a painter in acrylics and named the colors on my palette by specific names, ie... "Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Viridian"... not just "red, blue and green"! Steven is going places! :)

Did I mention it was hot, but a beautiful day?

I was really attracted to the 'coffee and cream' coloration in the water of this one. The water up here is always stained due to it's originating in the northern forests of Tamarack and peat bogs. But right now it has a lot of sediment (the cream) stirred up in it from the flow, giving it a creamy, chocolate brown color. The river was approaching a 'record' ft/per/cubic inch flow.

'Record Flow' - oil- 12x16 - August 14, 2010 © Marc R. Hanson

I heard from a ranger in the park yesterday while painting that the river is now at 'record flow'. But it was the warming of the late summer color that really caught my eye and provided the contrast to the cool hillside in the distance and the reddish hues in the water and the rocks in shade. The entire scene had a 'yellow green cast' to it.

'August Colors' - oil - 11x14 - August 22, 2010 © Marc R. Hanson

A new painting project...

Taylors Falls Ten PM

Oil on canvas - 8x10 © Marc R. Hanson'10

This nocturne was painted from life in Taylors Falls last week during my workshop on our 'Nocturne Night'.

Also, this is a first for me, a trial run if you will. I have listed this painting as an auction item on 'ebay'. I have a lot of smaller paintings hanging around that are taking up my studio space and I need the room to work. :) I may be posting some of those in time.

If you are game, you can click on the link below the painting and go there to take a look.




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'On The Bitteroot'

We're back from Door County with lots of paintings to show but there have been a couple of pressing items to take care of first before I get into the editing of the photos of Door County paintings. Soon...

Here's one of the pressing items. I had to get this piece done to send to Wally Grewe in Hamilton, MT for his show 'Fall Classics' at his Ponderosa Art Gallery. It is a pastel done from an oil field study painted while at the OPA National Show in Missoula, MT in 2008.


'On The Bitteroot' - pastel - 11x14 © Marc R. Hanson'10

Addison Art Gallery One Person Show

I'm on my way to Door County to teach a 3 day workshop and participate for the 2nd year in the Peninsula School of Art's '4th Annual Plein Air Festival'. Yipeee!

I'm posting some new paintings, and some I've posted previously, that are going to Addison Art Gallery in Orleans, MA for my opening on July 31, 2010. If you're in the area, please join us. I'd love to meet you.



'Tangerine Skies' 11x14 pastel - © Marc R. Hanson'10



'May Moon' 10x8 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson '10


'Incoming Tide' 11x14 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson '10


'Edge Of Dunes' 8x10 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson '10


'Dinghies' 16x20 pastel - ©Marc R. Hanson '10


'Beach Day' 12x18 pastel - ©Marc R. Hanson '10


'On The Sand In P-Town' 8x10 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10


'Old Float' 10x8 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10


'North Chatham Beach' 10x8 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10


'Nice Boat' 10x8 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10


'Memories' 12x24 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10


'Subtle Skies' 11x14 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10


'South Big Marine Lake' 12x16 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10


'Sand And Sun' 10x8 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10


'Rasta Boat' 10x8 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10


'Perry's Pride II' 11x14 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10



'Morel Woods' 10x8 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10


'From Above' 12x16 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10


'Labor Day' 20x24 oil - © Marc R. Hanson'10


'Spring Arrives' 16x20 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10


'Balsam Branch Mill Pond' 18x24 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10



'Brilliance' 10x8 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10


'Canoe Launch' 14x18 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10


'Cats In A Row' 10x8 oil - ©Marc R. Hanson'10

Upcoming Events

Right now I'm busy painting for my one man show Addison Art Gallery in Orleans, MA. The Reception is July 31st and on the 1st of August I will be doing a gallery demonstration open to the public.

If you're wondering if I have fallen off of the face of the 'art' earth, I haven't. I'm deeply ensconced in it and am building up a supply of paintings for this show. Once I am ready, I will post what I'm sending out there.

In the mean time, this is my schedule of Events, shows and such, for the fall and new year... so far!

July 19-25, 2010...Door County Plein Air Festival - Fish Creek, WI

July 31st, 2010... Reception for One Man Show at Addison Art Gallery - Orleans, MA

October 1-3, 2010... Wild Wings 'Fall Festival' - Lake City, MN

November 13 - 30... 20th Annual Small Works Show at Howard Mandville Gallery - Kirkland, WA

November 13, 2010... Beaux Arts 2010 at Scottsdale Artists School - Scottsdale, AZ

March 20 - 26, 2011... 'Wet Paint' at Coleman Fine Art - Charleston, SC

Workshop News

Both my Fish Creek, WI and my 4th Annual Taylors Falls, MN workshops have filled as of today June 22, 2010.
If you are interested in having your name added to the waiting list for the Taylors Falls Workshop, email me at- paintbox1@frontiernet.net- and I will add you to the list so that you can be notified in case of a cancellation and a spot opening up. Thank you.