Tracie Thompson, Artist

My little sketchbook went with me, and my watercolor set. This was a hiking trail I was on; I stopped and sketched the scene in terra-cot...

Mounds Boulevard Bridge, 6 x 12" oil on canvas Today was overcast, not unpleasant though. A softly lit day and a grey curve of r...

but I didn't. Downhill to the River , 8 x 10" oil on canvas, $145

Cattails , 6 x 12" oil on canvas, at Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary today. $145  This was today at Derek Davis' class. It rain...

Hidden well enough, as it happens, that I still haven't found the falls. I didn't make it that far today, my first visit to this lov...

Still having a lot of fun with the Guerrilla Painter's Box I got at Wet Paint. It got windy and cold out that day, as the clouds moved ...

Again, just 4" square, oil paint on canvas. Priced for the holidays at $45 each. More to come!

  Okay, here's where I'll be again in about two hours: At Saint Paul Art Crawl at Josephine Geiger's studio , out in the yard b...

Back at Bruce Vento this afternoon, I did a quick oil sketch while the sunlight disappeared all around me. Low Branches , 5 x 7" oil o...

Rail Cars and Red Grass , 8 x 10" oil on canvas board There are several tracks running through Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary, where I...

  Above, yesterday's little panel with the freight train. This was at the end of the session. I didn't stop painting long enough to...

Mill District Moonrise , 6 x 4" oil on canvas board Painted on site; photographed on the bumper of my truck. This whole mill ...

The Petunias in progress at Como Conservatory. Photo by Patrick O'Reilly, who kindly emailed it my way. When I lived in the South (an...