Welcome, my friends, to October’s journey of Plein Air 365™,

That means fall is now in full force, and there was another month of incredible places to see and paint. For me, it was also a month of highs and lows. Well not too low, I guess. I spent a week painting while having the flu, and trying to paint while on cold medicine was quite an unusual experience. Other than that, it was one of the best Octobers that I have seen in a long time.

This month, I had the chance to paint in Colorado Springs’ Garden of The Gods, and even in Pueblo. I love the diverse scenes that our great state offers a painter. It has everything from prairies to peaks and desert to snow, it’s fantastic!

October also brought Halloween, and since I like to paint something special for the holidays, I figured I would do a plein air still-life of something that I thought was kind of appropriate for the day. It was a real human skull. Painting a real skull (a friend received this in a roundabout way and gave it to me as a gift), and not a plastic replica, gives you a little different way of thinking about your subject. Not only how to paint it, but more so, who was this person, how was this person’s life, and can I give respect to this object that was once a person? To do this on all-hollows-eve was a special moment for me.

Once again, there is so much more that I could tell you about, all the great things that I saw and had the good fortune to paint, but I’ll leave that to the book. For now, please sit back and enjoy October’s journey.

Best Wishes,

Ted

May love fill your heart and art fill your life.

P.S. I would like to invite you to the opening reception of the Golden Triangle Denver Plein Air event on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at the Denver Public Library. I hope to see you there! Click here to view invitation.

May love fill your heart and art fill your life.

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