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by Marie Thompson on 10/28/2009 10:24:13 AM
Tommy Thompson painted "Radnor's First Color" in October 2009, while painting en plein air with his daughter, Michelle Rideout. Radnor Lake in Nashville is one of the artists favorite places to paint.
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by Marie Thompson on 10/28/2009 10:20:11 AM
Tommy Thompson painted "Study in Green" during a plein air workshop with Jeremy Doss at Leiper's Creek Gallery in Leiper's Fork, TN
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by Marie Thompson on 10/27/2009 1:42:33 PM
"Daylily Glory" represents a departure from Tommy Thompson's usual landscape oil paintings. The artist is also an avid gardener and enjoys growing beautiful flowers.
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by Marie K. Thompson on 10/23/2009 5:42:31 PM
Tommy Thompson and Michelle Rideout paint at Radnor Lake in Nashville, TN.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, proved to be a great day for plein air painting in Nashville, TN. Tommy Thompson and his daughter, Michelle Rideout, enjoyed painting on the banks of beautiful Radnor Lake. The two painters were entertained by a flock of wild geese that rested in the water beneath the painters without concern. A family of otters playfully splashed in the water nearby.
Michelle Rideout captures Radnor Lake on canvas.
Radnor Lake is one of the largest pockets of wilderness (1,200 acres) in the United States in close proximity to a major city. Status as a protected ecosystem allows a remarkable diversity and abundance of wildlife and plant life to thrive. At Radnor Lake songbirds, herons, geese, wood ducks, green snakes, rattlesnakes, frogs, toads, fish, otters, turtles, beaver, wildflowers, blackberry bushes, wild roses, grand oak trees, flowering dogwood, and many other members of the natural world live undisturbed. Approximately 240 species of birds, twenty-six of these waterfowl, have been identified at Radnor.
Tommy Thompson revisits Radnor Lake to capture its beauty.
by Marie Thompson on 10/23/2009 12:17:01 PM
Tommy Thompson painted "Pot O'Pansies" after visiting Lake Lure, NC. He saw this pot of pansies outside the Lodge at Lake Lure, one of his favorite places to visit. Lake Lure is the second most photographed place in the United States; the most photographed place is Lake Tahoe.
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by Marie K. Thompson on 10/22/2009 9:27:29 AM
Tommy Thompson painted "Harpeth River Snag" during a plein air painting workshop in Leiper's Fork, TN, conducted by Jeremy Doss. This painting represents a departure in oil painting for Thompson since it was done in a more impressionistic style.
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by Marie K. Thompson on 10/20/2009 6:39:02 PM
"A Dancing Man Now Paints With a ‘Dancing’ Brush"
“If I could paint faces all the time, I would,” says Jeremy Doss. “It is so rewarding.”
Doss grew up in north Alabama. Spending time in nature gave him a heart to paint the beauty of the landscape but he also has a passion for painting figures and still life. He paints in oils with a mixture of impressionism and realism. He is mostly self taught and prefers the alla prima style of painting.
Tommy Thompson and his daughter, Michelle Rideout, participated in a 4-day plein air oil workshop with Jeremy Doss of Townsend, TN, during October 12-15, 2009. The workshop was hosted by Leiper's Creek Gallery, owner Lisa Fox.
Painter Doss shares freely the vast amount of information that he has gained from other painters such as Richard Schmid. The road to painting for Doss included a career in dancing and choreography in New York City with an off broadway company.
Since dancing was his night job, he had lots of free time during the day. Looking through art magazines one day, he found an article about Richard Schmid and became hooked on painting. He saw Schmid’s style as something that he could pursue as a lifetime career. At a Retrospective honoring Schmid in Ohio, Doss met the famous artist and was able to watch him while he painted. Doss has not only lived in New York City but also Santa Fe, NM.
When he was teaching dancing he figured out what worked but had trouble determining why until an engineer explained it to him using a paperclip. It was the same way with painting. Regarding temperature, he knew what he wanted and what worked but Schmid explained to him why it worked and how.
For more information, check out the work and workshops of this fine artist at Jeremy Doss Art.com.
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by Marie Thompson on 10/9/2009 1:08:39 PM
Tommy Thompson painted "Spring Iris" as part of a series of floral originals. The artist has received several kudos for his paintings of flowers recently.
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by Marie Thompson on 10/9/2009 1:06:21 PM
"Short Cut to Oscar's" was created by Tommy Thompson from memory. The painter has traveled throughout the United States over the past 20+ years pursuing a career in art and has accumulated a myriad of images through his memory and with the aid of a digital camera.
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by Marie Thompson on 10/8/2009 6:25:22 PM
Tommy Thompson painted "Route 1, Box 232" from memories of scenes that he has observed during travels over the past 30 years.
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by Marie Thompson on 10/8/2009 6:23:56 PM
Tommy Thompson painted "Floral Splendor" after visiting a small Alabama town where he admired their beautiful hanging baskets draped on street lamps.
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by Marie Thompson on 10/8/2009 6:19:09 PM
Tommy Thompson painted "Pansies Three" as part of a series of floral paintings that he has enjoyed creating recently.
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by Marie Thompson on 10/8/2009 6:17:48 PM
Tommy Thompson painted "Leiper's Fork House" after visiting the small community near Franklin, TN. Leiper's Fork is one of the artist's favorite places to paint.
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by Marie Thompson on 10/8/2009 6:16:00 PM
Tommy Thompson painted "Late Hay" from memories of his childhood growing up on a farm where one of his summer jobs was cutting hay.
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by Marie Thompson on 10/8/2009 6:13:15 PM
Tommy Thompson painted "Ivy and Pots" while remembering a scene that he observed several years ago. In this painting, the artist tried to employ various painting techniques that he has learned during workshops over the past few years.
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by Marie Thompson on 10/8/2009 6:10:32 PM
Tommy Thompson painted "Gazebo at Leiper's Fork" during Roger Dale Brown's Plein Air Workshop at the village. The Gazebo is the site of many parties and other events in the small picturesque village.
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by Marie Thompson on 10/4/2009 2:19:56 PM
Tommy Thompson painted "Sitting Pretty" during a Plein Air Workshop conducted by Roger Dale Brown in Leiper's Fork, TN. The adirondack chairs were actually white, but Thompson used his artistic license and changed the color to red for emphasis.
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by Marie Thompson on 10/4/2009 1:56:57 PM
Tommy Thompson painted "Aubrey's Creek" while participating in a plein air workshop in Leiper's Fork, TN, with the award-winning artist, Roger Dale Brown. Barns and farms are featured in many of Thompson's paintings probably because of his love of the simpler way of life.
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by Marie Thompson on 10/4/2009 1:46:22 PM
Tommy Thompson produced this still life in the impasto style of painting. By scooping up paint that he had only partially mixed, the artist piled the oil paint on like icing with a palette knife. As Kevin Macpherson says in his book, Landscape Painting: Inside and Out, "a thick, juicy stroke can be carved into alternative shapes easier than a very thin passage."
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