James Gunter's Studio

  On My Way to the Ridge. On a nice late summer day last week, there was nothing better I could think of doing than go exploring places in t...

12" x 16" Oil on Panel The Midway Art Association is holding it's annual plein air competition right now. Painting for the...

8" x 10" Oil on Panel Happy Summer Solstice! Here's a couple recent plein air paintings that I think have an appropriately...

18" x 24" Oil on Panel The weather's still rather warm, but nights are becoming a little cooler and autumn color is beginn...

16" x 20" Oil on Panel This Friday, August 3rd, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, is the opening for the Utah County Plein Air Art Show, spon...

11" x 14" Oil on Panel For this painting, it was back to the Spanish Fork River trail. Technically, it's still a couple we...

9" x 12" Oil on Panel Some days I just drive until I find something to paint, park on the side of the road, set up a pochade b...

9" x 12" Oil on Panel This was painted yesterday. It's a painting of cottonwood and willow trees southwest of town, lookin...

8" x 10" Oil on Panel Spring weather is crazy. Short sleeve shirt weather one day, snow the next. It'll be a month or so b...

9" x 12" Oil on Panel And what a nice Equinox to go out and paint in! It's still kind of "stick season," that is...

8" x 10" Oil on Panel Last Saturday was the nicest day yet this year, so I took an 8" x 10" pochade box for a short ...

Tuesday was a wonderful day for a walk in the country. Winter can be rather unpleasant around here, but not on this day! The sky was so b...

This will be an attempt to show step-by-step the painting I made on New Years Day . I hope it will be informative in spite of it's s...

8" x 10" Oil on Panel Thought I should start this year off right by going plein air painting. The weather seemed to agree, bei...

9" x 12" Oil on Panel A couple more paintings made in the last little while share this post. The first one was painted west of...

9" x 12" Oil on Panel Here are two paintings made recently in the July heat. The first one is of marsh willows near the lake. ...