Artist & Painter Rebecca Latham’s Nature & Wildlife Art

This is a new miniature painting I am working on.  I am also in process of finishing an existing rabbit piece that I started some time ago - a photo of that will be posted shortly :).

My family and I recently agreed to be represented by a new gallery in "Paradise Valley" Livingston, Montana, opening in May.  Some additional plans are being finalized for this summer.  It is such a beautiful area for an artist to gather inspiration for painting!

Of course,  my family and I will be showing work at our gallery in Jackson Hole, Wyoming - Galleries West Fine Art as well.  The Jackson Hole gallery is hosting an exhibition for our family June 24th - July 1st, with an artist reception on June 30th.  We are planning to do a little painting in the gallery during the exhibition also.

Jackson Hole has been such an inspiration for my work in recent years.  With mountainous habitats and wildlife so abundant, I find it impossible to refrain from painting during my trips in the area. :)  I am really looking forward to visiting again.

Visit the lathamstudios.com exhibit schedule page for up-to-date information.  Drop in and visit one of our shows/exhibitions if you’re in the area!! 

I recently finished a commission of a number of ducks (waterfowl).  I really enjoyed painting these birds and the habitats. 

The models for these paintings were simply beautiful, though the weather decided not to co-operate during our studies (in the rain).  Each bird seemed to have it’s own personality, so a part of my goal in each piece was to capture the essence of each bird.

This is a sketch of another new painting I have in my studio.  This is a larger painting of a great egret.

I love paintings of squirrels, or at least the paintings that capture the playful personality of the animal.  So often the scene is filled with soft neutrals and rich earthtones — a very interesting to paint! :)  This is a small piece I am painting by request. 

This is a picture of one of my new miniature paintings - a bull moose from Wyoming.  I am very pleased wit the way it is turning out.  I will post a better photo of it when the painting is a little farther along.

Here in Minnesota, "spring" takes a little bit to get here. The bitter cold is gone, but (unfortunately) we tend to have mounds of snow this time of year. Sooo… I thought a nice spring wildflower picture might help those of us who are buried under a foot of snow think of the warmer days that are coming.

I am very eager for the warm weather to arrive. I love being able to get out and experience what I am painting on the canvas. The time I spend out and about is very appreciated after all of the long hours of studio painting.

I am planning to do some research in several wilderness areas in the U.S. this spring/summer that I will be using for some of my new paintings. I am also tentatively planning to do some plein air painting during that time as well. I have been wanting to do some ‘actual’ painting in the field to capture the essence of the area more accurately in my work.

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This is another new piece I have sitting in my studio right now.  You may notice the dark strokes look a bit different on this piece than some of the other sketches I have on the blog.  That is because for this piece I did some "redrawing" in paint - you could think of it as sketching with a brush instead of a pencil.  I am working on this piece in it’s color phase at the moment.

This is a second sketch for my commissioned beaver painting.  I combined both of the sketches together for the painting - so there are two beavers in the painting.  I’ll be posting the actual painting a little later. 

There has been some interest in my wolf sketches on the blog - requesting a few more posts featuring them.  This sketch is the rough for a new painting I will be starting on soon. 

As I posted earlier, I have been primarily working on the stack of commissions I have in my studio right now.  This is one of the rough sketches for my beaver commission.  I have been painting on this piece for the last couple of days.

I really liked studying this animal.  He walked slowly, as you would expect a beaver to behave, but could also jump or run at any moment and be very energetic.   It made watching him almost comical. :)  With the beautiful fall colored leaves on the ground complementing him, I think the painting is going to turn out very well.

I finished a few paintings recently that never made it into the blog, unfortunately.  Sometimes those deadlines……

This (pictured) is one of my new paintings I’ve just started to sketch out.  I have a number of these half-done and just-started pieces sitting around my studio at the moment. :)  Most of them are being painted for a number of my upcoming shows (both confirmed and unconfirmed). 

Keep an eye on the Lathamstudios.com exhibits page for times and locations - It is updated as new details are confirmed.

A foot and a half of heavy snow in Minnesota :). 

I have just returned to my studio from our recent exhibition in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  The show went very well.  It was great to see everyone again!

A few new things have popped up, so I will be posting about those a little later.   I am starting on some requested artwork right now.  More photos to come…