I can’t believe that my last blog post was created in April! This spring and summer was a whirlwind to say the least. A lot has changed.
Last winter, I went out to Cody, WY to check out the city and see if there was a suitable place to relocate my gallery/studio. (Betsy and I had been talking about moving there for a couple of years to try and get our boys closer to family.) The long-story-short is that I came back to Lawrence with a incredible studio opportunity and even large scale art commissions waiting in Cody.
Betsy and I decided to put our house on the market in April. It ended up selling in less than five hours! We were in the moving truck at the end of May. Things couldn’t have lined things up more perfectly! In fact, things came together so quickly, we hardly even had time to say good-bye to our dear friends. We lived in Lawrence for thirteen good years–it wasn’t easy to leave.
Fortunately, the summer in Cody was pretty awesome. The weather was sunny and the temperature was much lower than Kansas. The mountains, wildlife and many friendly people welcomed us. We found a great house with a acre of land, just a mile from the studio downtown. The garage even has a dedicated art studio for Betsy.
As I currently write this, I am actually visiting Lawrence again. A special storm painting commission for Nazarene Theological Seminary has brought me back. During the NTS “Preaching Hope in Troubled Times” 2018 preaching conference, I painted this 40X60 inch storm painting.
I’m glad the painting came together as well as I hoped it would. People really seemed to enjoy watching the progress and final outcome. For one year, I am going to give half of all the proceeds from print sales of this painting back to NTS. You can order limited edition paper prints of this painting here.
It’s been a really great trip back to Lawrence. One thing that made this trip exciting is that my friend and award winning director, Marc Havener, with Resonate Pictures, finished a one-minute film documenting my 30 foot-long painting I created for the Lawrence Beer Company called, “Ocean Over Kansas.” Check it out!
Marc did such a fantastic job with this. I’m happy that it has been viewed several thousands of times on Facebook. The more views the better! I’d like him to get the credit he deserves.
In my next post, I will share news on the murals I have been working on in Cody. I promise, I won’t wait six months to post again! 🙂