SDAN Member - Steve Randall
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Mill Tower
© Stephen Randall

(Acrylic, 9 X 12)

Sold

Falls Park has as many potential paintings in it as there are visits to the park. I intend to do at least one a year.

I like the way afternoon sun skims the water and puts the Falls in shade. I donated this one to the Arts Night Auction at the Washington Pavilion.

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The Gallery Pages for Steve Randall's artwork are as follows:

Main Page: Current work.

Gallery One: Yankton Area Arts Plein Air Painting Event, Yankton, SD. 2008.

Gallery Two: McCrory Gardens, Brookings, SD. 2008.

Gallery Three: Urban landscapes, Brookings, SD. 2008.

Gallery Four: Urban landscapes, Sioux Falls, SD. 2008.
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The summer of 2008 turned out to be a good time to get out and paint on location (en plein air). I don't have a studio, so that works for me.

This web site shows a few of the paintings I did, as I'm getting ready for a show at the Brookings Art Center in May 2009.

Prices are for unframed works.
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The Strawbale Winery in Renner, SD, invited plein air artists to paint out at their annual Quilts and Vines Festival fund raiser for Project Linus (blankets for babies in hospitals) this summer. I think they'll invite us back. Artists spent the day on location, working and talking with people. We had supper together at the Renner Steak House, and then a wet paint show and sale at the Horse Barn Art Center the next day in Sioux Falls.

Table Centerpiece #1
© Stephen Randall

(Watercolor, 4 X 6)

$50

At the Museum of Visual Materials artist reception the other night there wasn't much action, so I pulled out my travel watercolor set and settled in at one of the cocktail tables with flower arrangement centerpieces and started in on a small plein air watercolor painting. Fun. 

Renner Fire Department
© Stephen Randall

(oil on canvas, 9 X 12)

Painting on display at the Brookings Cultural Center through May 29, 2009.
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It was an amazing sight last summer- the colorful quilts draped over vine supports, billowing in a gust of wind and 'please don't touch.'

There were so many worthy subjects- quilts, people, barns, tents, antique cars, classic cars... I hope to get there again THIS summer.

The fire truck stood guard. The Winery has great tasting wine and a lot of volunteers made it all work comfortably.
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And... in 1968 I was a US Army Combat Artist in Vietnam. I have posted a description of the program and some slides, sketches and paintings I did with the program on another web site (see following link).

BUCKLE UP, CAMPERS!- OTHER INTERESTING LINKS ARE AS FOLLOWS...

Strawbale Winery -- Quilts and Vines Event
SDPB Radio Interview -- Combat Artists Steve Randall and Jim Pollock
Brookings Arts Council -- Check it out- May 2009
SDPB Radio Interview with Steve Randall -- Palisades Park Plein Air Event
Center for Military History -- US Army Combat Artist Program
SDPB Radio Interview Steve Randall -- "Vietnam: A High Plains Perspective"
Sioux Empire Arts Council -- Horse Barn Arts Center
Yankton Area Arts -- Plein Air Event 2008
Jim Pollock- Artist of the Black Hills -- -and fellow combat artist.
Jim Pollock -- U.S. Army Combat Artist from South Dakota
Combat Artist Steve Randall -- US Army, Vietnam, 1968

Table Centerpiece #2
© Stephen Randall

(Watercolor, 4 X 6)

$50

This centerpiece looked amazing in proportion- like it could be very big, but was small enough that I could paint it from not two feet away.