August September

Here we are it's almost the middle of September, and I still haven't done my blog post.A lot has been going on and I am quite tired. Here is the First painting of this post. Painted in Louiseville, Colorado. The red barn is a well known landmark for the locals. This painting can be seen at Mary Williams Fine Art, which is now representing me.

I painted this just off of Cherry Vale rd. The blue in the back is actually the base of the foot hills. I do love the late afternoon light.

One of those late afternoons I headed up to NCAR where I painted this. Normally I would steer away from such a cliche' image, but the light was just too tempting.

This is an aspen I found in the neighborhood.

The light for this one lasted just a few minutes. But I did my best to remember. It was done at the bottom of Coal Creek Canyon.

I cruised up to Brainard Lake one morning, hiked up to Long Lake to paint these next two.

To help promote Boulder's open Studios, of which I am participating this year, I did a demo at Chautauqua at the ranger's cottage. In preparation I painted this a week in advance.

This is from the demo.

And this is the painting from the demo.

One evening I headed up Caribou  rd. above Nederland to paint this.

This one was done from just inside the building where I have my studio. I believe the plant is called Rabbit Brush.

Last Sunday Debbie road bicycle up Mt Evans from Idaho Springs. I dropped her off at the bottom and drove up to tree line to paint this. Then I rode the rest of the way to the 14000' summit with her.

This is Coal Creek. It is pretty much down to a trickle.

Yesterday I joined PAAC for one of their paint outs. This one was held at Meininger's Lodge in Bailey Colorado. I was really loving the light on these funky old mountain cabins. I painted three yesterday. Today I am whipped!

Here are the portraits and figures from this past month.

Until next time....

Painting along Trail Ridge Rd at 12,000 ft.

 Today Sharon and I took a trip to Rocky Mountain National Park.We decided to paint up near about as high as you can go at about 12,000 ft. It was a little cool and windy, but for where we were it was beautiful. This painting is 11x14 and the second of the day. I did an 8x10 warm up painting first seen below this one. They both turned out equally as well. There were lots of people out many of which were very interested in our painting, so we got to talk with some very nice folks.

Monday evening I went up to NCAR  and found soom very interesting light on the flat irons for this 8x10.

 Thur. late afternoon I found some more very cool light  off of Cherry Vale rd. The sun was in and out in and out. and made the spring leaves really glow at times. There I came up with this 8x10

After a two week break, we are back on the Weds. night figure painting. This painting is 16x20

Craming as much as I can in a day

Life has kind of taken over this week, so time and energy haven't allowed for much painting. I did make it out today and got these done. Boy, I do really feel rusty. This first painting I did at a woman's house I met at the Coal Creek Holiday arts and craft show last Nov. She had invited me to her property to paint and I finally got around to it today.

This is an old wagon that sits in the canyon in front of the liquor store. I've been meaning to paint it one of these days and got this sketch of it done earlier this  morning

 This is a view of the flat irons. The narrow lighter strip near the bottom is 93 at the top of the hill just south of Boulder.