Blue Morning At SoHo, plein air

The morning sky was clear and blue above South Holston Lake, during the 2026 Abingdon Plein Air Festival, with low clouds gently wrapping around the mountains like a shawl slipping from their shoulders. The blue seemed to carry through the entire landscape, from the distant violet-blue mountains to the quiet waters below.

I hadn't set out to paint a predominantly blue landscape. I simply painted what I observed that morning, and it was only afterward that I recognized how much that peaceful blue atmosphere had become part of the painting.