Sabbatical

The Quilt & Creation Pt. 1 Great Idea

Janice KirkNovember 30th, 2023|Categories: Blog, Quilt and Creation|Tags: biomes, creation, ecosystems, elevation, embroidery, geology, great ideas, habitats, memoir, nature, painting, Pilgrimage, Quilt, quilt blocks, Sabbatical, vegetation, western landscape|

FLC Book Club after reading The Road to Beaver Park - Char, Joellen, Jan, [...]

Painting America the Beautiful. The Art Portfolio Pt. 1. A Sense of Place

Janice KirkJanuary 19th, 2019|Categories: beauty, Blog, Out Sketching, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: Art Portfolio, Canyon Country, Colorado prairie, Great Basin, Journal, Rocky Mountains, Sabbatical, Sense of Place, Sketchbook|

Part 1. “A sense of place, a private view, and something more . . .” [...]

Painting America the Beautiful: River of Golden Aspen. Part 1. Chasing Fall Color

Janice KirkOctober 13th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: Colorado Rockies, Fall color, Golden Aspen, Gunnison, Montrose, Sabbatical, Something Beautiful, Taylor River Campground, watercolors|

River of Golden Aspen, Colorado Part 1. Chasing Fall Color We chased fall colors [...]

Book Review: The Road to Beaver Park

Janice KirkSeptember 22nd, 2018|Categories: Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: art appreciation, En Plein Air, field course, natural history, Pilgrimage, Sabbatical, Southwest, spiritual renewal, Travelogue, watercolor painting|

Thanks to Sue Ready who reviewed The Road to Beaver Park, Painting, Perception, and Pilgrimage. [...]

Painting America the Beautiful: Desert Valley South of Ely, Nevada, Part 1.

Janice KirkAugust 11th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: Basin and Range Province, dust devil, En Plein Air, flying ants, Great Basin, Highway 50, Lehman Caves, poachers, Sabbatical, watercolor painting|

Desert Valley South of Ely, Nevada Sabbatical painting, 1976: . . . from boulders by [...]

Painting America the Beautiful: Agate Beach. Part 1. Trial Run to the Coast

Janice KirkJuly 14th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: Agate Beach, agate hunting, America the Beautiful, azaleas, camping, Great Outdoors, monochromatic colors, Patricks Point State Park, rhododendrons, Sabbatical, sketching, sleeper waves, watercolor painting|

Agate Beach, Patrick's Point State Park, CA Sabbatical painting, 1976: . . [...]