Original Plein Air Painting by Walter Kent: Indiana Dunes, 2020 the black spot books shaped and re-enforced with linen

shaped and re-enforced with linen tape and tarlatan and finished with a red and golden headband

and head out on an adventure

- 1 bookbinder’s needle

They are named for Orra White Hitchcock

Original Plein Air Painting by Walter Kent: Indiana Dunes, 2020 the black spot books shaped and re-enforced with linenLight changes, colors transform, shadows emerge and fade. Each time I step into nature I am confronted with its fleeting intricacies juxtaposed with its promise of enduring newness. My excursions with paint and brush are a humble attempt to capture moments of this change to live in the now. Each painting is a time capsule containing a multitude of hidden details: the feeling of the cold sand on my bare feet, the itchy bites of a hoard of mosquitos,