Thoroughly Skilled & Ready to Boost SKB

by Bob Bahr Rod Lawrence is thorough when it comes to his own art, and accepting when it comes to other people’s process. In other words, he can and will show you exactly how he makes an image, but he does not expect or even encourage workshop participants to...

One Young Adult’s Path to SKB

By Bob Bahr How do you get to an SKB Artists Rendezvous? The same way you get to Carnegie Hall—practice. Age matters. It’s a bit harder for a teen to get to the annual Dubois workshop put on by the Susan Kathleen Black Foundation. Fifteen-year-olds, for example,...

Learn From SKB’s Frame Expert: Jeanne Mackenzie

  By Bob Bahr Artist Jeanne Mackenzie has seen it all in the domain of picture frames. She’s a key player at High Plains Frames, a frame shop in La Porta, Colorado, and an SKB stalwart, present at nearly every Dubois workshop we can recall. She’s...

Siblings That Rival Each Other in Kindness

by Bob Bahr You hear it so often at SKB events that it is on the verge of becoming a cliché: SKB is one big family. There are plenty of other workshops out there, and beautiful places to paint, and opportunities to get away and further develop your artistic skills....

Caleb Goggans’ Quick Draw at SKB Dubois 2017

By Bob Bahr Thomas Caleb Goggans painted a mountain scene for the Quick Draw event at SKB’s Artist Rendezvous in September in Dubois. We photographed several stages of the painting’s development and peppered him with questions while he worked. Here’s...