Having gone through the process of having a total knee replacement back in February, I have not been able, or had to desire to paint much in the weeks that followed. It seems to be a slow road to recover from all the sawing, drilling and hammering it requires to add titanium implants to the knee.
Easel setup in the Tandy Hills Natural Area
This April, the always gracious sculptor and artist Douglas B. Clark reminded me of a fun event at the Tandy Hills Natural Area just east of Fort Worth. The event is called Prairie Fest, and it has live music, local food and art, with a few painters bringing their easels and creating several paintings on the spot, or en plein air.
Tandy Hills Natural Area is about 160 acres of hills and trails, some dropping down in valleys and creek beds and back up again. Downtown Fort Worth can be seen from several of the hilltops, making this little piece of earth quiet unique.
Tandy Hills Natural Area is a little piece of prairie in the thick of the Fort Worth area. It has over 500 native plant species, with the spring wildflowers and cactus being the main subjects I choose to paint. The two paintings are available.
I enjoyed the day of painting, weather was great and it helped get some paint from the tubes to the palette and then to the panels I was working on.
A slide show can be seen below.
