I was able to combined two art fairs in Texas this October along with four days of fishing in between.  Anyone who knows me very well understands the importance of planning my travels along with a little fishing to keep things interesting. October is the time of year that the big bull Reds migrate into …

  We have all heard the comparisons of looking at any less than desirable situation as having a glass half full verses the view that your glass is half empty.  One of the reasons that I became a working fine artist is that I have always enjoyed making people happy.  I guess that is why …

  Artists may be cut from a different cloth. Although we put on our pants one leg at a time just like anyone else, we do allow ourselves the luxury of thinking outside of the box. I came to the conclusion a long time ago that I would not get rich while following my passion, …

MY PHILOSOPHY ON GETTING OLDER.   PLUS A WORD OR TWO ABOUT SPRINTER VANS.   Over the years I have put my share of asphalt highways in the rear view mirror.  Traveling from art fair to art fair selling my paintings is not for everyone, but it has allowed me to see many things and experience …

Let’s go on an imaginary journey to a secluded place where mountain lakes are overflowing with rainbow trout as long as your forearm.  Picture yourself floating in the middle of this wilderness as eagles soar overhead while moose graze on a distant shoreline.  Trout are slapping at the surface of the lake as a rising …

I had come to South Texas to sight cast for reds, and arrived at Baffin Bay in a downpour of a storm that would choke a frog.  The next morning was not a great deal better.  The rain was gone, but the wind had whipped up the bay, making it down right nasty.  We opted …

Toyz…a collection of paintings by watercolor painter, Larry Stephenson Childlike Art, Bright and Beautiful, TOYZ, is a collection of paintings spanning more than a decade of works created in my studio using vintage toys for my subjects. These items are often juxtaposed into fun situations and captured with the stroke of a brush using a …

The promises of fall. Appearing with that first blush of color on the aspen trees at the higher altitudes, the mornings of the high desert grow a little crisper as the steelhead swim further upstream in growing numbers from the Columbia into the lower Deschutes. This script repeats itself every fall as anglers step into …

“Shooting Line.” The original painting is sold, but reproductions are available printed on 100% cotton rag watercolor paper. Using a newly engineered Winston spey rod that my guide is testing for the Winston Company, Ryan shoots 100 feet of line into the Deschutes River north of Maupin, Oregon.  It was midday and we had stopped …

Thinking back……. It was the summer 1981. I was in the middle of a road trip traveling to an art fair in New Mexico with my close friend, and fellow painter, Jerry Ellis. It was an interesting journey filled with big talk and even higher expectations. We gazed out the windows of Jerry’s Little Red …