Santa Fe Spring

 

 

Painted this for Bill Guffey's Virtual Paint Out Santa Fe challenge.

 Spring in New Mexico, with the white blossoms, and bare tree yet to green out.

 I particularly liked the peachy adobe house

 with the bright gorgeous shade of turquoise trim.

 

5" x 7" oil on canvas panel

 

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Confetti

 

 

​The deck in the side garden

 is enveloped with a profusion of colorful flowers.

 As I approached it one day,

 it made me think of so many impressionist paintings,

where the colors are scattered in bits of bright hues of paint

across the canvas like garden confetti.

 I knew I wanted to paint it

and the name would be

 "Confetti".

 

 

5" x 7" oil on canvas

 

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Cle Elum River

 

 

While on my road trip,

I camped in the Red Mountain Campground on the Cle Elum River,

 in the Wanatche Nat. Forest in WA.

This was the actual scene from my campsite.

 This painting was done early one morning while the sun was just coming up.

The clouds moved in and filtered the light, so it was mostly flat.

I had to paint the light and dark values quickly, when I could.

 But the weather had been so hot, that no one was complaining

 - except maybe the resident artist.

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel

 

$35.

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Lavender Farm

 

 

Another painting from my summer road trip.

I saw several beautiful and well groomed lavender fields,

but this one was the one I loved,

for it's wild and free ambience.

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel

 

$35.

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Spring Thaw

 

 

As I mentioned before,

I take along some books by artists I admire

while traveling.

This painting is after Johannes Vloothius

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel

 

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High Desert Canyon

 

 

Painted for this week's DPW "Summer" challenge.

For me, summer means a road trip where I paint and take photos.

This year's trip included the high desert of SE Oregon.

I take along a couple books to study, by artists I wish to learn from.

 I painted this beautiful scene from the influence of Johannes Vloothius.

This amazing high desert landscape of soft colors

reflecting the canyon's stark beauty,

 beginning with the pale grays of the overcast skies,

to the muted purples of the distant hills,

 the sandstone canyon walls,

 to the vegetation growing along the seasonal creek.

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel

 

Available on DPW auction

beginning bid $30.

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High Desert Symphony

 

 

​Painted this en plein air

 while traveling through Oregon's SE high desert.

The colors and atmosphere of this region are stunning.

 

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel

 

$35.

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Seabirds

 

 

​A few more of the many seabirds

 that find sanctuary along the Olympic NP coastline in WA.

 They nest and feed here in spring and summer

 which is a great time for viewing.

 

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel

 

$35.

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Pelagic Cormorants

 

 

​The Olympic NP in WA is a sanctuary

for many varieties of seabirds along the NW coast of the peninsula,

where I traveled as part of my summer roadtrip.

This rugged and wild shoreline

is a protected area that is beautiful and the birds are amazing.

 

8" x 6" oil on canvas

 

$35.

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Summer Pasture

 

 

​A plein air painting

of a pasture with rolled bales of hay

 with wildflowers growing up around them.

 I painted this while on a summer roadtrip.

Some scenes are too lovely to pass up.

 I had to stop and paint this one.

 

 

6" x 8" oil on canvas panel

 

$35.

 

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