Plein Air Public Lands: Day 15 By: Kristina Lyn Heitkamp Bears Ears If you haven’t been following the news, recently Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommended rescinding Bears Ears National Monument, possibly shrinking the protected lands from 1.35 million acres to...
Plein Air Public Lands: Day 14 By: Kristina Lyn Heitkamp Bears Ears We decided to move our invitation to public plein air with us event to a sooner date. We had one attendant rsvp, and he was anxious to get outside and create. Jim, from our educational event, joined...
Plein Air Public Lands: Day 13 By: Kristina Lyn Heitkamp Rotary Park, Moab Utah The day of our second educational event! The night before, both Rex and I had intimidating visions of large crowds of participants, all noisy and needing a few quiet down attempts before...
Plein Air Public Lands: Day 12 By: Kristina Lyn Heitkamp August 23, 2017: Moab There is a severe beauty of this intense landscape, an otherworldly quiet, with almost a passive harshness. The first plein air of the day started at the noontime hour. We again set up...
Plein Air Public Lands: Day 11 By: Kristina Lyn Heitkamp Upper Onion Creek Last night was our first time camping in paid camping grounds. We often opt for a dispersed camp spot on public lands (usually BLM or Forest Service managed land), which means an area off a...
Plein Air Public Lands: Day 10 By: Kristina Lyn Heitkamp Solar Eclipse The bull greeted us this morning. He was up early for the continental breakfast of sweetgrass and complaint around the truck. A bit cranky in the early morning hour, he huffed and snorted. Perhaps...
