Plein Air Work | Jacqueline Bellows

• Kenecott, Power Station & Mt. Donaho

  Oil, Linen, 9 x 12

• Kennecott

  Oil, Linen, 9 x 12

• Fireweed Mountain

  Oil, Linen, 9 x 12

• Mount Alice from Seward

  Oil, Linen, 9 x 12

• Between Glaciers and Storm

  Oil, Linen, 6 x 16. I painted this in one of my favorite spots: the airfield at McCarthy in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. What a view! I painted fast because the storm was coming my way. I beat it by seconds. The la…

• Tree Patterns

  Oil, Linen, 12 x 9. Maybe it was a bit odd to be painting in Point Lobos, California, and to face away from that magnificent coastline. But the afternoon was hot, the sunlight was brilliant, I was desperate to find some…

• Point Lobos

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 16. When is a plein air painter happier than a sunny day at Point Lobos, California?

• Dark Day in Bainbridge

  Oil, Linen, 9 x 12

• Langus Riverfront Park

  Oil, Linen, 8 x 10

• Morning in the Gorge

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12. I made a quick painting trip to the Columbia River Gorge last September. The sky was hazy from the smoke of wildfires.

• Chimney Rock, Morning, Ghost Ranch

  Oil, Canvas, 9 x 12. This is the first of my three-paintings-in-one-day series of Ghost Ranch's Chimney Rock. I loved the sweeping view and shapes of the rocks. Morning light is my favorite, the earlier the better!

• Waterfall in High Falls Park, Adirondacks

  Oil, Linen, 12 inches x 9 inches. I carried my painting gear down a steep trail into the narrow canyon on a drizzly June morning. When I arrived, I had the place to myself. This year I avoided the patch of poison ivy ra…

• Water Dance, St. Regis Falls, Adirondacks

  Oil, Linen, 9 x 12. I returned a second day to St. Regis Falls and tried the capture the trajectory of the water, its splashes and runs, as it pours over and around the rocks to rejoin the river below. This one is a fav…

• Chimney Rock at Midday, Ghost Ranch

  Oil, Canvas, 9 x 12. I worked quickly on the second in the series, out in the heat and full sun of midday. I baked along with the landscape.

• Norman Ridge Road, Adirondacks

  Oil, 9 x 12. Picture 50 or more painters setting up easels and umbrellas by the side of the road in front of this luscious view. The sky was clear, the sunlight brilliant, hence sunhats and umbrellas. It's hard to pick…

• Chimney Rock, Evening, Ghost Ranch

  Oil, Canvas, 9 x 12. Third in a series of Chimney Rock of Ghost Ranch. Painted plein air, palette knife, alla prima. Fall Color Week 2019.

• Kitchen Mesa, Ghost Ranch

  Oil, Canvas, 14 x 11. I love painting on rainy days. I was semi-sheltered under the open hatch of my car. Loved the contrast of the cool, rainy light with the warm color of the rocks and earth. Another Ghost Ranch iconi…

• Deep North Woods, Adirondacks I

  Oil, Linen, 12 inches x 9 inches. Painted at the Visitor Interpretive Center at Paul Smith's College on a cold, wet. blustery day. But oh, those deep, mysterious northern woods and waters! I dressed in layers and picked…

• Coming Rain, Ghost Ranch

  Oil, Linen, 11 x 14. The weather was threatening, the view vast. I worked quickly, out in the open in the field in front of Ghost Ranch's dining hall, finishing up before the sky opened.

• Upper Flume

  Oil, Linen, 9 inches x 12 inches. What a privilege to paint in a spot made famous by so many of the Hudson River School painters! A scramble up and down, I found my spot and worked happily for hours.

• Old Pinyon, Ghost Ranch

  Oil, Canvas, 12 x 9. I loved the twisted shapes and colored bark of these old desert pinyons. Decided to paint one's portrait. Also done during Fall Color Week 2019 at Ghost Ranch New Mexico.

• St. Regis Falls

  Oil, Linen, 9 inches x 12 inches. Painted in the park at St. Regis Falls, Adirondacks, in June 2017. Beautiful, peaceful day, painting with friends.

• Lake Placid from Whiteface Mountain, Adirondacks

  Oil, Canvas, 9 x 12. I drove up Whiteface, iconic Winter Olympic skiing area, to capture the phenomenal view. I found wind, brisk, blowing, relentless, and had to anchor everything. I also had to work fast because of th…