Exhibitions: Art St. Louis, 2013 / Michael Anderson Paintings, Louvre Salon & Spa, Fairview Heights, IL, 2018, Collector's Choice 2018, St Louis Artists' Guild
Sure Sign of Spring, was painted on location en plein air during one approximately 4 hour session at Bee Tree County Park. The park overlooks the Mississippi River with good views of the Illinois farmland with the bluffs in the distance. I prepared the canvas with modeling paste applied randomly with a palette knife. The oil paints were applied thickly in some passages, quite thinned out in others and there are a lot of implied details scratched into the wet oils with a palette knife. The time of year is early spring so there were lots of bare tree limbs in the foreground and an extensive bloom of purple henbit in the open fields across the river.
- Subject Matter: Landscape
- Collections: Plein Air