Original Plein Air Painting by Walter Kent: Lake Michigan, 2020 art whether you mix your own

whether you mix your own pigments or squeeze them from a tube

Placed in the center of a table or picnic blanket

A usable and wearable hand-stitched miniature book finished with reclaimed leather

at the Five Acre Wood

Original Plein Air Painting by Walter Kent: Lake Michigan, 2020 art whether you mix your ownLight changes, colors transform, shadows emerge and fade. Each time I step into nature I am confronted with its fleeting intricacies juxtaposed with its promise of enduring newness. My excursions with paint and brush are a humble attempt to capture moments of this change to live in the now. Each painting is a time capsule containing a multitude of hidden details: the feeling of the cold sand on my bare feet, the itchy bites of a hoard of mosquitos,