During these unprecedented times, many events are being canceled. The much anticipated Phippen Art Museum Western Show and Sale at the downtown courthouse in Prescott was one of these events. Instead, there is an online show to view and purchase works! Follow this link for that online show: http://phippenartmuseum.org/phippen-western-art-show/. I have 4 paintings in that online gallery and also 2 …
Paintings Available at the all new The Frame & I webstore
My Russell Johnson Studio Spring Cleaning Sale and Show is on display at The Frame & I, downtown Prescott, AZ. We decided to postpone the reception planned this coming Friday, March 27th, as a cautionary measure during this pandemic. On the positive side, my paintings can be viewed and purchased on The Frame & I’s website with free delivery in …
Studio Spring Cleaning Art Sale & Show at The Frame & I
Mark your calendars! For the first time ever, I will be doing an art sale and show at The Frame & I called “Studio Spring Cleaning”! I will be featuring a selection of new pieces and marking others at 25 to 50 percent off. There is no better time to add to your art collection than during this show, March …
Recent Oil & Acrylic Paintings
Last Fall was full of colorful trips and I am finally getting to painting the places I visited! I hiked West Fork when fall colors were at their prime, I hiked from Lockett Meadow to Inner Basin in a brilliant glow of golden aspens, and I hiked the Hermit Trail of the Grand Canyon. I think the photographs I took …
Hiking the Hermit Trail to Hermit Rapids, The Grand Canyon
This trip was much anticipated! A friend asked me to lead a trip in The Grand Canyon and we selected the Hermit Trail to Hermit Rapids. We had six first-time Grand Canyon overnight hikers. My two brothers were the only other two that had backpacked the Grand Canyon before, in fact I brought them for their first hikes when they …
Colorful Hike at West Fork of Oak Creek Canyon
They call this trail “Call of the Canyon,” you will know why when you go and feel the canyon walls close in as you explore further inside. West Fork is a side canyon of Oak Creek Canyon and has it’s own character, similar to Oak Creek with red rock and a rambling creek, yet different enough to captivate. In the …
Hunting for Fall Colors at Aspen Creek – Prescott, AZ
This years mild weather prolonged the Fall color season, making me get out to hunt for color again and again. The typical October freezes didn’t happen until later in the month this year. Some years, we go out for hikes and the trees seem to forget to change color; the leaves brown from the freezes and fall off at once. …
A Successful Studio Tour weekend
The annual Prescott Area Studio Tour was held the first weekend of October 2019. This was my sixth studio tour and much stress went into planning. I decided to set up in the back workshop space of my long-time place of employment at The Frame & I. The woodshop space has a separate entrance that can be propped open for …
Fall Colors at Lockett Meadow
We can’t miss our annual trip to Lockett Meadow and hike the Inner Basin Trail, well, because this kind of trip first started 14 years ago when I proposed to my then girlfriend and now wife. So, it’s a special time to see the fall colors to remember that special day and to watch our kids revel in the vibrancy …
Prescott Area Artist Studio Tour October 4-6, 2019
Welcome to the Prescott Area Artist Studio Tour to be held October 4-6, 2019. This will be my 6th year participating in this great event. This is a wonderful opportunity to see artists’ in their natural habitat, except for me. I will be setting up a studio for the weekend in downtown Prescott, at 105 S. Granite Street, right behind …