Kevin Menck Fine Art

We have an insect here in the south that I think anyone who has been outdoors any length of time has been eaten by. It's the chigger. I ...

I just got in from the Huntsville Museum of Art after delivering paintings for the Plein Air Painters of the Southeast's exhibit "...

Here are the only paintings I got done for the Carnton Show with the Chestnuts next week. Time was short these past few months and I had a ...

Recently I have had the good luck to attend a few quality happenings here in our area. As I was painting the painting above in the Leiper...

I usually don't paint flowers. I struggle with some of the color with my three color palette and the drawing and rendering can be a litt...

As plein air painters, being exposed to crowds and having contact with the public as we paint, we are all asked questions about what we do a...

A 12x16 done afield. That is massive for me. After calming down from that first initial burst of frenetic paint application to block in the ...

I have an imaginary time limit when I paint outside. If I have painted for three hours I generally have a problem or just finished fighting ...

I have always admitted I am the biggest heat sissy that has ever plein air painted. I'm an eskimo. So if you would have told me I would ...

I have been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to do a few commissions over the past few weeks. It's always fun to get to attempt ...

Just a quick blog to keep the momentum. These were a couple of demos I did for the Chestnut Group about two weeks ago during their "Pa...

Thought I would change the look of my blog a bit and maybe it would inspire me to post more. I don't think it is the look that prevents ...

A couple of paintings I will have at the Cumberland Society Show at Leiper's Creek Gallery starting the 14th of May. I am as excited abo...

I got an iphone recently due to the fact I washed my old flip phone in the washing machine and for anybody wondering, yep, that's bad fo...

Everything is "springy" here right now. Lots of spring greens and storms about every 15 minutes. Violent storms. I happened to be ...

One from last week and one from mid-March, right before spring blooming. Both are at Leiper's Creek Gallery.

I got in last Saturday night from a week long paint out with Plein Air Painters of the Southeast . We met in Charleston, SC the Saturday bef...

When I paint in the woods I refer to it as "painting in the interior" as opposed to the fields and open spaces. It is the hardest ...

I have been taking a little heat lately because with all the snow we have had here in Middle Tennessee I have implied that I could stand a l...

And it's a good thing because she never would have allowed me to scale a 30ft. limestone bluff into a raging river gorge. And Kay Keyes ...

I spent the day Sunday painting with Anne Blair Brown . We started on 12th Ave., a trendy urban area with unique restaurants and shops, and ...

I complained because I don't get to paint snow enough and voila! I'm getting to paint snow enough. We have had another snow and this...

I will be teaching classes again at Leiper's Creek Gallery starting the 27th of this month. The classes will be every Thursday night fro...

I know the snow paintings have a reputation of not selling well, but to me they are the most fun to paint. I love how the landscape looks wi...