Kevin Menck Fine Art

Found this farm a while back but never made the effort to stop until this morning. It is somewhere between Normandy and Wartrace along the D...

Painted this morning with a group. Roger Brown and Beverly, Brett Weaver, Gary Young, Erin Jones, and myself painted at Radnor Lake. Weather...

This was done Saturday evening after the cemetary painting that morning. It was the same cornfield in my previous blogs and yes, by the time...

Plein Air Nashville painted in the City Cemetary to get in the spirit of Halloween. If there was such a thing as ghosts I would be in the Ci...

I don't get the chance to paint cattle much because they never hold still in the field long enough. If I do paint them they are usually ...

Painted downtown again where I painted the little fire boat a couple of weeks ago. The little boat actually sits right to the left of the ed...

If you have ever watched a combine work, it's like magic. The stalks, johnson grass, sticks, etc., etc. goes in the front and out comes ...

For those of you who may have noticed I posted this on Sunday when I painted it and then saw it on the computer screen and decided it needed...

Painted this little market/cafe yesterday in a little community in Rutherford County called Christiana. Apparently it serves a pretty good l...

Finally. A good solid fall cold front blew through and the temps stayed in the low 70's. Perfect day. Rest of the week looks as good. Pa...

Spent the last two days painting in Bedford County. Fridays, I pick up my daughter at Webb School so I usually spend Friday's painting i...

Here in Tennessee we have a land trust that Tennesseans can put their land in and it keeps it from being developed for perpetuity. I would l...

Everytime I paint a cityscape or something architectural I am completely drained mentally at the end. I think it is all of the editing, deci...

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,...