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Wow! how time flies. So here are my paintings from the last month. 

Adam was our model in this painting. He took on this very interesting but somewhat difficult pose.

This is about the 4th time I have painted this view from Walker Ranch. It always turns out a little different.

From the pull out on 93 just South of Boulder.

A partly cloudy day  on our property In Coal Creek Canyon. The cloud shadows were slowly moving across the landscape.

Fun colors.

This is one of my favorite portraits to date.

Low in Boulder Canyon. I loved the light.

Hygiene Colorado. I've admired this house for sometime now. I finally got around to painting it.

These are some big rock slabs just to the west of Ncar.

One evening after work I pulled over low in Coal Creek Canyon, climbed up a bit and painted this view looking up canyon. The sunlight only lasted about two minutes.  I was determined to get it in my painting.

Yesterday I hiked/climbed up behind NCAR to a saddle just below Bear Peak. And caught this view to the north.

Good Figure

I put another three hours into this on Weds. I am pretty happy with how it turned out.

I had Weds afternoon off, so before figure I painted this view from Sawhill Ponds.

Today Sharon and I went up Jones Pass again. This was my best of the day.

On our way home we stopped in Clear creek for another quick one.

Friday was the Art Walk in Louisville. After hanging my new batch of paintings, I went outside and attempted to paint "Nina's flowers and gifts" Store front.

 This was the first painting of the day this morning. I put it last because I am not sure if I like it or not. There was a lot of pretty colors.

Today Sharon and I went up Jones pass. It started raining almost right away. I set up my canopy and we went for it anyway. In this painting I am attempting to show a little bit of sunshine showing through the rain.

 Yesterday morning I went out at dawn and whipped out this 8x10 in about 10min.

 This is from Weds night. The model is coming back this Weds and I will be working on this for another 3 hours. Hopefully it gets better and not worse.

Boulder County Open Space paint out

Yesterday was the first of many paint out Boulder County Open Space is hosting. It was at Walden Ponds. At the end of the summer we can enter paintings done from any one of the many Boulder County Open Spaces.

This afternoon the weather was quite unsettled. So I set up my canopy on the patio and painted. It rained a couple of times while I was painting.

 Here is the painting.

 This is from Weds night.

This weeks bounty

I got back into full swing this week, with a painting on Monday.

Then a good pose for Weds night figure.

 After work yesterday I drove up Boulder Canyon and found this to paint right around Boulder falls

 Today I dropped some paintings off at Ncar to be judged for a possible show and spent the day there painting. See the next two.

Chautauqua and figure

This morning I went to Chautauqua Park. It was cloudy cold and a little foggy.

 Yesterday I attempted a instructional video. The video was a bomb but this 20 min cup turned out all right.

 Weds. I talked to our model about doing a more dynamic pose holding it for a shorter period of time, taking more frequent breaks. She was up for it and came up with this pose. She held it for ten min. at a time. What great fun!

Eben G Fine Park

This is a painting from last Weds. I am making progress with my right arm, but painting is still kind of tough. I have been keeping it easy by not using much color on the skin tones. Soon I will gain enough confidence to venture back into more daring colors.

 You may recognize this from last week. I took my plein air study along with some photos into my studio and repainted it. What do you think?

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

Windy Days

Today Sharon and I went plein air painting off of Cherry Vale. It started out nice, but with in two hours the wind was really starting to pick up. It blew my panel off of the easel and was just kind of making things difficult. My painting wasn't very good, but I brought it back to my studio and worked on it more from memory, and here it is. Not too terrible.

I sure do enjoy our Weds. nights, even when my paintings are just so so. I am looking forward to getting my shoulder fixed, so I can start to work big again.

Life has gotten in the way recently, tapping into my time and energy for painting. I am sure it will get better in time. I did manage to get two paintings done this past week. The first from Weds night. I may not be painting much, but still I feel this turned out pretty good. I feel more confident in my use of color in the light. I still have room for improvement, but it's coming.

This is from today. Sharon and I went down by Boulder creek, near the justice center on 6th street. 

Paint Paint Paint

Weds night we had a model who wore a really colorful dress and ring. It made for some really fun painting.

Here are a couple of details

 Monday, Labor day, Sharon and I went up to Caribou Flats to paint. I love the way the trees get around tree line where the wind hammers them all winter.

Supprisingly the wild flowers were still out at 10,000 ft.

Saturday morning, I decided to paint at home. I have painted this scene several times, but never in the morning.

Then I went down along 93 between boulder and Golden where there is this wonderful hog back.