Fruits and Vetables

Here are some of my favorite paintings from the last two months. These first three I did over the Thanks  Giving  weekend.

I painted this from the front seat of my truck up on Gap road. I feel I have the painting in the truck thing down. I've got my kit set up so it's an easy set up and break down. Easier than setting up out side.

This might be my favorite of the batch!

Over Christmas I drove over to Monument Valley. I ended up getting sick, but still managed to get some painting done.

This is down south of Albuquerque at Bosque Del Apache. A big wildlife refuge.

I repainted this from the Bosque Del Apache painting. I thought I could do better with tha colors and values. 

Today I stayed home and did a bunch of small and quick paintingsof some fruits and vegetables. It was a really fun day!

Procrastination Makes for a very large blog post

Again, it's been awhile, so I have a lot of paintings to post.

Aunt Joyce's house last weekend.

 Sept 22 at Colorado National Monument

 October 14

 September 25 Golden Gate Canyon State Park

 October16 Lake Ralston

 October 23 Galisteo, New Mexico

 September 19 Golden Gate Canyon State Park

 October 17 Bottom of Coal Creek Canyon

 September 18 Golden Gate Canyon

 November 1, In Boulder Lehigh St.

 October 18, Bottom of Coal Creek Canyon

 September 25 Golden Gate Canyon State Park

 Morning October 24 New Mexico Aunt Joyce's house

 Biggest Plein Air to Date at 18x24, Done on the Plains at the bottom of Coal Creek Canyon

October 9

 October 4 In front of Art Work Space where I have my studio

 October 31 Saw Hill Ponds

 September 25 Golden Gate Canyon State Park

This one has been accepted in the Colorado Plein Air Arts Festival

 October 11

 October 3

 October 10

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....