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Monthly Archives: September 2007

Glen Haven Painting Trip Blog Up and Running

The blog for our Glen Haven Painting Trip is now up and being posted to. It should be a interesting look at our process. you can view the blog at… www.glenhavenpaintingtrip.blogspot.com

North Manitou Painting Trip

Melanie Parke with friends Cre and Cece on North Manitou Island.

Glen Haven Painting Trip

We will be spending sometime up in Glen Haven, Michigan doing some fall painting on location. I thought it might be of interest to see what happens when we haul all our stuff out into the world in the hopes of getting some good things down on canvas. For the time we are [...]

North Manitou gouaches


Painting on the Island


North Manitou Island Painting Trip

Melanie and I recently were fortunate enough to be guests at the only private cottage on North Manitou Island. One of a chain of Islands of the NW coast of Michigan. North and South Manitou are park of the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore. We painted and gather information for further work.

Richard Kooyman at Bennett Street Gallery Fall Salon Show

Richard Kooyman will be showing his still life paintings in a exhibition titled Fall Salon at the Bennett Street Gallery in Atlanta Georgia. For more information go to their web site at
Bennett Street Gallery

Melanie Parke -Late Summer

Melanie Parke Late Summer 20" x20" oil on canvas

Improvements

The new roof is completed over Melanies studio along with many other needed projects. This summer has been very busy and we are looking forward to an exciting fall. We will be spending some time in the Glen Haven area painting as well as a unique painting trip to North Manitou Island in the Sleeping [...]

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