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...

12" x 9" Pastel on Sanded Paper These two portrait sketches are from a few weeks before when just about everything - includi...

A new art exhibit opens tomorrow at Evergreen Gallery in SLC. Several local artists were each given a 20" x 20" painting panel ...

14" x 11" Charcoal on Grey Paper Another drawing from another portrait session a couple of weeks ago. The model we had for tha...

14" x 11" Charcoal on Paper Here's a quick post about my sketch from last Wednesday's portrait session. I try to arriv...

14" x 11" Charcoal on Toned Paper. I don't know if the post's title correctly names that hairstyle or not. It's ju...

14" x 11" Charcoal on Grey Paper Long time, no post anything... Been busy with the holidays and slowed down by the winter do...

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...

This happened a number of years ago, in an apartment complex I lived in at the time. One day I went to the laundry room to wash some cl...

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...