Kevin Menck Fine Art

Got to stand at my Open Box M and watch what happens when you mix oil and water. Painted at Swan Creek yesterday with Jason Saunders and it ...

This is a good friend of mine's Massey Ferguson. It has been around Totty's Bend a lot longer than I have and like me has probably s...

Got the boat out again this morning and went back up the river to the same shoal I painted on Wednesday afternoon. The view in this painting...

Every second on the Duck River is an adventure. I commandeered Mookie's jon boat and put in yesterday afternoon at the camp. Noticing th...

Painted at the Water Valley overlook on the Natchez Trace this morning. It is actually a great spot to paint with views in both directions. ...

I painted in the studio the past week because the temps were so high during the day plus we had a couple of rainy days that made getting out...

Painted again this morning at the same place I painted Friday, I just moved my view down the river about ten yards. This little cutbank has ...

This is a little painting I did on Friday morning. It is a pair of Sycamore trees that sit on the Duck river. We used to tie trotlines to th...

Man, I hate painting in the month of August. It gets so brutally hot here that to be able to paint you have to find some shade that doesn...

I have always wanted to paint a tugboat but you would be suprised how hard they are to catch sitting still. I don't know where they park...

Painted with Plein Air Nashville again on Saturday morning and we painted right in the heart of Nashville at the Legislative Plaza. There ar...

Painted with Nashville Plein Air this morning and we painted on a pedestrian bridge that crosses the Cumberland River at Two Rivers Park. Th...

I spend quite a bit of time in and around the Duck River. If you've been keeping up with my blog I think you can tell. I can remember as...

Scored a canoe and Jason Saunders and I went canoeing on the upper end of the Duck River. We floated a stretch from Dement Bridge to Three F...

Painted yesterday morning at Williamsport WMA again. I struggled with this one. I couldn't get the light right, it just was not working....

I usually carry very small tubes of red and have a very small area on my palette for red because as a landscape painter I use it mostly as a...

I said it before and I will say it again. It's all about values. This painting was an exercise in getting the values right. I, for what ...

I painted this morning with Plein Air Nashville. We had set out to paint Musica but after I got there and looked at all the figure drawing r...

I thought I would show another roundbale painting since I have been painting them so much lately. When I painted these and other roundbales ...

This is my lovely daughter Sarah Beth on the right and her friend Neale on the left. I had intended to paint here but as you can see I thoug...

For the last few days I have been living on Benedryl, Starbucks and Repel tick spray. It is that time of year. It seems that my allergies ar...

Ya' know, a lot of people say they are tried and true plein air painters but their deepest foray into the wilds is stepping off their ba...

This is another Duck River painting. It is actually on the lower end, around Centerville in an area called Totty's Bend. A very good fri...

Went back to Normandy last week to paint the Duck River again. Painted the tail waters at the dam and at a bridge with a public access area....

I have to say I think I am the worst photographer in the world. My images are never square and the color is usually miles off. It has been t...

After the constant rainfall we have had of late it seems like everywhere I try to paint I have had to deal with mud. My backpack is covered,...

Painting in the cold can be very difficult if you are not prepared. Painted this morning with Plein Air Nashville (The diehards, Bitsy, Bren...

I spent the last two days of last week in and around Normandy and Bell Buckle. I did Thursday and Friday morning at the Normandy dam paintin...

The Chestnut Group is teaming up with the Nature Conservency to paint the Duck River Watershed to raise money for the restoration and preser...

Plein Air Nashville is back in action. We painted Saturday at the Mount Olivet Cemetary. I had never been so I actually didn't know what...

There is nothing in the world like a road trip. New places, people. I find it hard though to paint in a place I have never painted , it alwa...

Another painting out of Bedford County. I think I was in Bedford County. I was somewhere between Gossburg and Bradyville. Someone correct me...

Went painting with Jason Saunders recently. Our method for finding a place to paint was to hook up a Garmin Navigation system and start driv...

Last Thursday I think I set a personnal best. I have painted in temperatures as low as 20 degrees but Thursday it was 15 degrees when I star...

The winter is actually my favorite time to paint and be outdoors. I can't remember where I read it but some artist said that "in th...

The show that the Chestnut Group is having at the Belle Meade Plantation has been extended until the end of January. If you haven't been...

I will be participating in The Chestnut Group's "Belle Meade Small Works Show" from December 6th through the entire month of D...

I have recently joined the Chestnut Group which is a group of local painters whose members donate a lot of time and money through volunteer ...