Kevin Menck Fine Art

This to me is what a Tennessee Christmas should look like. Too bad we had it this past week instead of Christmas. Maybe we'll get anothe...

Oh my God, indeed. I feel like I am standing in a room full of people and I am in my underwear. I typically would not show my first attempts...

Painted on Swan Creek a lot last week because we seemed to have had a lot of gray weather lately and the creek always has nice darks and lig...

I haven't blogged in a while and I think it may be due to the weather this time of year. From Thanksgiving to the last of December is my...

We finally got some good color in the trees and it has just about come and gone already. I think it may have peaked last week and now they a...

I know it's a bad attitude to have about studio painting but all I can think about is the weather clearing and getting back out. We have...

Had a pretty stiff cold front blow through yesterday with a very constant north wind. I had gone out to paint in the morning but was not pre...

Painted with Plein Air Nashville this morning at Cheekwood and had quite a turn out. The most I have seen in a long time. This little painti...

The fall colors I have been waiting on have arrived, I just don't remember them being this late. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought it wa...

Bells Bend is a jewel. It is an area that is about 20 minutes from downtown Nashville that is still very rural. It has remained this way bec...

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...