James Gunter's Studio

12" x 16" Oil on Panel The Utah County plein air event is going on now. Paintings for the competition were turned in last Saturday...

  10" x 8" Oil on Panel The tree really does look like this.  There's a trail I walk from time to time that leads along the ba...

  9" x 12" Oil on Panel Down the valley from where I live is a canyon in the Wasatch Range I've visited a lot this year. A few...

  11" x 14" Oil on Panel Spent the last week painting and getting ready for the annual Spring City Plein Air show. Got a late star...

In a year marked by such unpleasantries as a pandemic, recession, earthquake, riots, upcoming elections, and so forth, so many of the ple...

9" x 12" Oil on Panel Early this month I was back in the desert, near the Book Cliffs. There's so much to explore and pain...

20" x 20" Oil on Panel Here's a square painting for once. I kind of like the format, so I might just paint a few more of t...

11" x 14" Oil on Panel On the first of October I traveled to Helper, Utah, to spend a few days participating in a plein air ev...

9" x 12" Oil on Panel This is a plein air painting of Mt. Olympus as seen from Olympus Hills Park in Holliday. This section of...

Three more little paintings from life done at the Wednesday sessions. They were painted alla prima  at sessions within the last month or ...

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...

A few of my plein air paintings are in a group show at the Brown House Gallery in Springville, Utah. The opening reception for the show ...

8" x 6" Oil on Panel Two more recent portrait sketches from live models. Both were painted alla prima in oil in two and a hal...

12" x 9" Pastel on Sanded Paper I'm way behind on posting my portrait studies, so here's three at once! These are th...

10" x 8" Oil on Panel When Casey Childs learned that a neighbor of his, a neighbor with particularly long hair, was going to g...

10" x 8" Oil on Panel As often as I can, I attend painting and drawing sessions at other artist's studios. A week or so ...

9" x 12" Oil on Panel This was painted during a recent trip to the the four corners region of southeast Utah. I was driving ar...