Framed Original Plein Air Painting by Walter Kent: Stroud Nature Preserve No. 1 babies This is a tiny book

This is a tiny book

The Steinbeck Desk

as well as one’s feet after a long day of exploring

growing longer ever still

I was so enamored with the ink

Framed Original Plein Air Painting by Walter Kent: Stroud Nature Preserve No. 1 babies This is a tiny bookLight changes, colors transform, shadows emerge and fade. Each time I step into nature I am confronted with its fleeting intricacies juxtaposed with its promise of enduring newness. My excursions with paint and brush are a humble attempt to capture moments of this change to live in the now. Each painting is a time capsule containing a multitude of hidden details: the feeling of the cold sand on my bare feet, the itchy bites of a hoard of mosquitos,