- Please note: This is a past event.
Lonny Granston: Paint Together on Smokey Mountain Road
Tue September 23, 2025 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Cost: none!
Minimum of 2 / Maximum of 40 / All ability levels
A 10 minute drive south of town on 2 wheel drive Smokey Mountain road takes us to the northern boundary of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument where we will draw the attractive butte just to the east. Littered with boulders and topped by cliffs dotted with junipers, it is an enticing subject to draw. In late September, it has great shadows before 11 am and after 3pm.
Bring the media and substrate of your choosing to this event. Lonny will be using pastels, but will be available for artistic guidance and comic relief.
Laurence “Lonny” Granston started life as an artist, played doctor and triathlete for a while, then returned to his easel. He has little formal training in painting, and as a result has gravitated toward pastels, which are similar to the crayons he scribbled with on the walls as a child. A multiyear participant in the plein air event, Lonny has spent decades hiking in, biking in, kayaking in, getting lost in and now painting in the area which now comprises Escalante- Grand Staircase National Monument. He has lived and practiced medicine the last 35 years in Boulder, Colorado. During that tenure, he somehow managed to remain married to the same wife for 30 years, assisted in raising a remarkable young woman and stayed out of the criminal justice system. He is represented by Ana’s Gallery in Boulder and Osmosis Gallery in Niwot, Colorado.
You can see more of his work at https://www.lagvisualarts.com/ and follow him at @lagvisualarts.