a pile of paintings

Well, I keep thinking I am going to get back into the swing of blogging, and before I know it months have passes. Here are is pile of paintings I have completed in the past couple of months. I hope you enjoy. And I will continue to try and pick up the pace.

                                     

Here is a reminder of the opening tonight. Below see some of my paintings from the last two weeks.

 

Today I painted from the driveway. If this looks familier, it's because I have painted this view numerous times.

 This is from earlier this week. it is a very quick study from the top of my hill as the sun was going behind the mountain.

 This house is one I remodeled years ago. the clients are some of my favorites. It took 2, 2 hour sessions to paint and is on a 16x20 panel.

 My friend Ian posed for us 2 Wednsdays ago.

 Here we have a still life start. I may or may not paint on it more. I love being outside too much.

Paac plein air marathon

"Plein air artists Colorado" had a plein air painting marathon yesterday, of which I participated. We started in Denver at 5am with a sun rise painting. 8x10

 Then we went to Red Rocks where I painted the next two pictures. 11x14

11x14 

After lunch, we went to "Lair of the Bear" open space park. I found this nice tree to paint.

 11x14

Finally, in the evening, We went to Evergreen Lake. It had clouded up, not my favorite light to paint, but ended up with this pretty nice painting despite of the light. I had a lot of fun and met some very talented and nice people. However, today, I am quite exhausted. 

 11x14

 

I also had Thur. and Fri. off from work, so I had time to paint. This was my second on Thur. It is from the Peak to Peak highway south of Nederland a few miles.

11x14

My First Thur. I thought had turned out pretty good, but on the way back to the car it fell on the gravel path wet side down. After it completely drys, I'll brush it off and repaint where needed. Needless to say, I was crushed when it happened. however it's not so bad to keep me from posting it here anyway. Friday was worse. A gust of wind knocked the easel over spilling paint thinner all over my almost finished painting. That one I am not showing, it is too messed up.

12x16