Yellowstone Plein Air Invitational is about to begin!
This is your reminder... the first annual Yellowstone Plein Air Invitational starts this coming week! There will be demonstrations and a...
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Views From My Artistic Vantage Point
Overlooking Yellowstone National Park On The Yellowstone River
- by Shirl Ireland -
It's Show Time!
August 4 - 5, 2018 S.L.A.M. Festival Bozeman Color by Shirl Ireland Grizzly Bear in Bronze by John Stacy This weekend, we will be...
Mother Load
I've been an artist my whole life. Stamped in my single digit years with the 'artist' tag. But when I had kids I did consider setting my...
Seeds of Wildlife Art
There are two Swedish painters I particularly admire from the past.... Bruno Liljefors and Anders Zorn, both born in 1860. And, as...
Signs of SPRING!
We are seeing signs of SPRING in Montana and Yellowstone lately. Come along on my painting and photography journey... This is one of my...
Yellowstone Artist Series - BIERSTADT
Maybe better titled "The agony and the ecstasy" - read on and you will see what I mean.... Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) was an artist who...
What a great time to bring up Degas
... when he is in Denver! Or at least his work is at the Denver Art Museum - and I have my tickets! "A painting requires a little...
Yellowstone Artist Series - HILL
Abby Williams Hill (1861-1943). One of my favorite historic artist mothers, with ties to Yellowstone and a love for plein air painting......
Yellowstone Artist Series - MORAN
We are going to start this series with Thomas Moran. A huge name in Yellowstone Art. He helped to create the Park itself with his...
Art Gawkers!
Lots of Art patrons lining up in front of the Gallery windows yesterday, gawking at the Art inside... Guess they were interested in Art...
European History through Art & Architecture to Impressionism
I will be giving a talk this week on Impressionism and how it fits into European history. I've done it before - relating Impressionism...
A Framing I Will Go...
Time to pull out studies I've had propped against the walls, search through my sketchbooks for hidden jems and frame my 'top choices'....
A Winter Day in Yellowstone
A drive into Yellowstone with my camera on a beautiful winter day produces A LOT of amazing photos! I am still absolutely in awe of what...
Bones - A real STILL Life
If you've followed my work for any time at all, you've seen bones. I've painted and drawn them in oils, watercolor, graphite, ink and...
Delivery Day
Power - Yellowstone Falls 48" x 36" oil by Shirl Ireland This piece began as a small plein air study - done on location at the Lower...
A Snowy Plein Air Painting Excursion
Nope, winter doesn't stop me. I headed into Yellowstone with a friend today to paint. The spot we chose was a little precarious - a...
Creativity in Every Corner
If 2 artists own a Gallery Lodge and a Guest House, they can't help but make the spaces creative - at least in our case! Yes, we've been...
A Favorite Of Mine
Joaquin Sorolla was born in 1863 in Valencia, Spain and died in 1923 in Madrid, Spain. He was a brilliant painter. Although he started...
Yes, I have lived in a barn.
A favorite barn painting of mine just found a new wonderful home. So it has moved on... Long Ago And Far Away by Shirl Ireland 20" x 20"...
Blah, Blah, Black!
Anticipation Oil by Shirl Ireland With all the hype about Black Friday, I thought it could make a good blog post. Well, not Black...
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