Back in full swing with my right arm

It was 40 up here today and in the 20s down in town, so I stayed up here to paint. This is from accross the road below our house.

In the afternoon I hiked down the trail at Walker Ranch and got this view through Eldorado Canyon. You could really see the cold air trapped down low.

 

 Yesterday I copied a Robert Liberace trying to prepare to dive back into color for my figures and portraits.

This is my figure from last week. I am trying to come up with more interesting poses.

Last post before surgery

This may be my last post for awhile. Surgery is set for Tues. I did have a pretty good last week of painting though. Weds our model wore a Christmas hat which made for an interesting painting.

 Today a bunch of us braved the cold for some plein air painting. This is my first of the day.

 And this my second

 This is a studio painting see a video of it being painted here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5BMJGlFio0

This is a scene I painted from out my studio window. It was raining Friday, so it seemed like a good way to get in some practice.

 This is a copy of a painting I've been dragging around with me for 25 plus years. I don't know where I got it, but have always had it hanging in my studio and really like it.

This morning Sharon and I went to Eldorado Canyon. This is my first. The cliffs were glowing from the reflected light from the sunlit cliffs on the north side of the canyon.

 Then I painted a monochromatic of some falling water.

partly cloudy morning

This morning Sharon and I went to a trail just south of Boulder, where we had a good view of the flat irons and Eldorado Canyon.

It was partly cloudy which made for challenging painting. On this one I tried to capture the sun shinning on the cliffs above Eldorado canyon with most of the other areas in the shadow of clouds.

 This is from Weds. night. I really had a lot of fun with this.

You saw the plein air study for this last week. I tried to finish this studio version today. The jury's out on whether I like it or not. I'm not sure it is capturing the light the way I remember. Oh well...

slow week

I didn't have much energy this week, so I only painted Weds. night and today. This is from Weds. night. I am pretty happy with it.

This is my second painting this morning, we are looking down at Eldorado Canyon, through Walker Ranch.

 

  Sharon and I met early this morning in Coal Creek Canyon. I see this every morning on my way to work. I have been wanting to try to paint it at this time of day for a long time. Finally I got my chance this morning. It turned out to be very challenging. The magic moment of light was gone inside an hour. I took some photos and am trying again in my studio.

a little of everything

  I painted this Monday evening. It may just be the best painting of the week.

 From Weds. night figure.

This is looking up Eldorado Canyon from hi way 128. After it drys, I should be able to brush the dirt, a big gust of wind deposited, away.

 Yesterday after noon I stopped in the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon and painted this.

 Today Sharon and I went to Red Rocks. This is from the upper south parking lot.

 This is from the same parking lot but looking south.

In Mom's Memory

My Mom passed away a week ago last Thur. and I have been debating weather or not to mention her in my blog. Mom was also an avid artist and had a great deal to do with me becoming an artist, so I figured it would be good to remember her here. She liked to draw, paint, quilt, as well as other creative things. When we were kids fidgeting in church, she would draw pictures for us to keep us entertained and most importantly, quite during the service.  I remember being mesmerised watching figures appear on paper off the tip of her pencil. She thought she was just keeping us kids quite during Dad's sermon, but I believe it was the start of the lasting impact she had on my artistic life. She as well as Dad have always been so encouraging when it came to my art. Thank you Mom, Your art continues through me.

We are flying back to Ohio this morning, So this weeks post is early. Here are this weeks paintings and one drawing. No time for discriptions. So, until next week...

Thanks Giving Weekend

I Love Days off for holidays. I was able to get out quite a bit the last few days. It has been so frustrating this time of year now that it's dark when I get off of work. I really relish the daylight hours on these days off. This I painted Weds. after noon. I snuck out work to get an early start to the weekend and headed up Boulder Canyon. This is fairly close to Nederland.

This is from Thanks Giving morning. I painted this from inside my car up on the peak to peak just across from the Kelly Dal camping area. It was blowing pretty hard so painting out side was out of the question. The lake was mostly frozen. (just in case you couldn't tell from the painting.

 Yesterday, Debbie and I rode our bikes north out of Hygien. Before we started I was able to paint this of Longs and Meeker as viewed from Hygien. I only had about an hour and 15. I still think it turned out OK.

 

 This morming I took the dog over to Walker Ranch where I painted this looking down into Eldorado Canyon.

  This afternoon when I got home I saw this beautiful light in some trees on our property. S o I attempted to paint them. The sun was down in about an hour, so it was fun trying to remember the way it looked with the light.