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Good Morning St. Michael's

Docked

Banning's Back Door

Absolutely Brilliant

Summer Cut

Circadian Rhythms

Seafood Shack

Birds of a Feather

Garden Party

Gone Fishin'

Making Light

Nobody's Business

Artist Loading Only

Organic

Dixie Bell Motel

Spring Growth

Spring on Mount Blakiston

Fall at Dry Fork Creek

Early Snow at Logan Pass

Fall Magic in West Glacier

Fall at Logan Pass

Signs of Spring

Flowers in Venice

Homestead

First Fall

Looking at Canada

Getting an Early Start

Wild Country Rose, plein air

Desert Textures

Spring on Bear Creek

Color at Cutback

Up and Over

Humble and Stubborn

Flocked

Camping Light

Close Relatives

Into the Superstition

Cottage by the Sea, plein air

Italian Pomegranates

Cameron Bay, plein air

Magic at West Glacier

Cow Pile

Magic at the Marina

Bright Spot, plein air

Record Highs

Confluence and Confusion

Heavy Cream

Motherlode

Three Boats

Walk of Fame

Lounge

Rockin' a Hard Place, plein air

Two Wild and Crazy Guys, plein air

Green Light

Up She Rises

Abandonment Issues, plein air

Cold Cream

Blurred Lines

The Ceramicist

Day Hike

Brilliant Inclination

Tribute

Hidden Barns

Snow Mass

Down to the Sea

Aspens Turning, plein air

Watch Your Step

Friends in Tall Grasses

Light Snow

Lori Putnam

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Jun 5, 2018

Fall Magic in West Glacier

Jun 5, 2018

Warning... this might get personal. For the last year and a half, I have been preparing for an upcoming exhibition at the Hockaday Museum in Kalispell, Montana. As one of the invited men and women to paint the Waterton Glacier International Peace Parks (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), it was a requirement to visit, document, and paint en plein air both Waterton Lakes in Canada, and Glacier National in the U.S.

Jun 5, 2018

Jan 25, 2018

Up She Rises

Jan 25, 2018

A highlight of my travels, hikes I have taken into the Eastern Sierras offer these inspiring views. This particular pack trip was to Drunken Sailor Lake near Mammoth. The white granite

Jan 25, 2018

Sep 4, 2017

A Full Pack

Sep 4, 2017

Several plein air paintings were used as the resource for this composite piece created in the studio. The majority of those paintings were made during pack trips in the Eastern Sierra Mountains. Every August a group of us head up for our annual painting, camping trip.

Sep 4, 2017

Tribute

Sep 4, 2017

We recently completed the building of my new studio in rural Charlotte, Tennessee. Unpacking boxes, stacking books, and placing artwork that was created by some of my greatest friends resulted in this still-life, interior motif. The paintings and sculpture seen here

Sep 4, 2017