Quick Draw in Dubois, Wyoming (2014)

Master Artists Square Off in a Step-by-Step Art Showdown

Painting Spot in the Brooks Lake Area near Dubois, Wyoming

Everywhere we travel, indeed, all over the country, the Quick Draw event has become a perennial feature of paint-outs, competitions and artist gatherings. We first encountered and participated in them while living in the little riverside hamlet of Garrison, New York, in the the Hudson Valley in the 1980s. They were, at that time, all-day festive events with a big public auction in the evening. The general idea stems perhaps from a natural desire to generate an instant marketing event to sell paintings created the same day, and Quick Draws can be ideal fundraising events for local art centers.