New Painting travel Log

This is a new venture and I will use this to document my painting trips, what went right, what went wrong, what was inspiring, etc. etc. having just returned from a trip I'll start this on my next venture. I always though this would be obvious but I've come to realize after many years, its not. I travel to find my painting subject, sometimes I take purposeful trips to find subject to paint other times I just happen to be someplace and I discover something that inspires me. 

Sometimes someone says I know this place its so beautiful I'd like you to see it, maybe you'd like to paint it and lots of times that's exactly how it goes. I paint real places, real locations. From my perspective the difference between wilderness painting and landscape paintings is, wilderness is a area that for all intense purposes is uninhabited and still in its natural state. Landscape is a area that is still nature but is not in its natural state.

Having said all that, to describe all that art its still as called " Landscape painting". I don't paint something because I have to, I paint something because I want to, something that inspires me and in return my hope is my paintings will be something that bring you some sense of peacefulness, joy or inspiration and that painting might end up in your art collection.

I just returned from a trip, travelled over 640 km and came out with 2 new ideas. It was excruciatingly hot so it wasn't possible to do any plein-air painting, I'll put them in my painting idea portfolio.

​Shelley