I've been bad--I stopped posting to my blog for about 6 months. That is way too long! And I've painted quite a bit in that time, so it's inexcusable. I didn't paint much from my Antholz post through the end of the winter. But then in May I spent a week at the Johnson Studio Center, doing a painting residency as part of their Vermont Artists Week. It was a great change of focus from my life of biathlon racing and training, and it was a great experience. I met lots of interesting VT artists and admired lots of work that was very different from mine. And I painted a lot. But by the end of the week, I was actually almost tired of painting. My paintings seemed boring to me compared to everyone else's work, and though I'd done a lot of painting, I sort of felt like I should have accomplished even more. I had a rushed transition back into training life, and I never even got pictures of all of my paintings, let alone posted them here. I still don't have pictures of the oil paintings I did there, which took up most of my time.
And then spring turned into summer...and I have been slow at getting back into painting. But I've done a little, and gotten really into a few projects for friends that I can't spoil by posting here now. So despite the fact that this is an incomplete catching-up, here it is! Just a few of the paintings from my spring and summer.
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| A pleine aire painting I did in Johnson. |
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| A couple of kids, standing in front of their bamboo-jungle at the Koons' farm. |
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| More goofy kids playing on their seesaw. |
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