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Banff!
I was lucky enough to be selected for a residency at the Banff Centre for the Creative Arts. I've never been up to that region. In fact this is the furthest north that I have been on our continent. It gets cold and rocky up there and from what I saw, really beautiful. I got my snow experience for sure. Living in southwest Georgia at 300 feet above sea level primed me to be jazzed by the soft, powdery, pancake-sized-snowflake snow that settled on everything with perfect ti
Orion Wertz
Oct 292 min read


Whales and the Big Box
Whales are a recurrent theme in the new book I'm working on. Somewhere around the midpoint of drawing this book, I re-read "Moby Dick"...
Orion Wertz
Mar 221 min read


Kyanjin Ri- One Year Ago
Its been about a year since I trekked the Langtang Valley in Nepal with my friends Bill and Bob. At our easternmost point in the valley...
Orion Wertz
Oct 6, 20242 min read


Square With Dome
This is a painting I recently completed. Right now it is hanging up in the CSU faculty show. I thought I would do a little post about...
Orion Wertz
Oct 5, 20242 min read


Under the Bridge
I completed this painting during my "year in absentia." It actually started off as something I worked on in my Painting 1 class while my...
Orion Wertz
Jun 12, 20242 min read
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