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This Week I’m taking part in the Floyd Virginia Biennial Plein Air Festival. Floyd is nestled in the Blue Ridge mountain range of south western Virginia right off the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Blue Ridge Parkway is America’s longest linear Park – the highway is the park, and the park is the highway! This park presents beautiful vistas where you can see for miles - or you can just look into the forest. You can watch the haze and mist burn off in the valleys as the sun rises. My host this week has a guest cabin in the mountains, in the woods.  My lodgings and studio this past week was that cabin. I was told to watch out for the Bears. The town is called “Meadows of Dan”. Nobody seems to know who “Dan” is. (I asked). The homesteads, the farms, even single dwellings, all have cows. Cows everywhere! Some people have hundreds, some people have just one. Perhaps they use the cow as a lawnmower.

Most of my painting efforts this week took part right off (on) the parkway.

3rd Floyd Plein Air Biennial Gala Celebration & Art Sale. (painted at festival. September 2022)

Enjoy!

“Meadows of Dan”. 18 x 24. Oil/canvas