JOHN MARIN WATERCOLOR MODERN!

"the seeing eye and the hearing ear become attuned

then comes expression

taut, taut

loose and taut

electric

staccato"

When viewing a watercolor by modernist painter John Marin you are likely to hear

music with every stroke or mark of the brush on the paper.

Marin developed a bold new way to use watercolor paint

and capture the landscape around him.

He made the medium contemporary and very American.

This great and very informative book, (covers his life and times,

his watercolor technique and even the way he framed his work)

accompanies the current show at the Art Institute of Chicago.

NEW YEAR 2011

As the sun sets on the last year 2010

here are some sunsets from our New Years

at the Hoeller-Ungar ArtBarn 2011

Horsefly Mesa, Telluride, CO

October at the Ghost Ranch

November 29, 2010 - Ridgway, Colorado

October 9, 2010 - Abiquiu, New Mexico

On the Painted Desert Road at the Ghost Ranch

WALKING AMONG TREES

This SUBTERRANEAN series of four mixed media works on will be on exhibit at the Stronghouse Studio Gallery in Telluride, Colorado. The show includes the work I did at the Vermont Studio Center in April of 2010 and is sponsored by an Artists Fellowship from the Telluride Council on the Arts and Humanities. You can hear more about the show and the Artist in Residence experience at www.tellurideinside.com - see direct link on links list.

THE NEXT DAY'S PAINTING

Painting with Douglass off the highway. This great morning view of good rock formations. So good to be in New Mexico painting again. Looking forward to Ghost Ranch next month.

STOPPING BY THE CABIN ON A WINDY AFTERNOON

A quick trip to Santa Fe to see the show at the O"Keeffe museum, I had to

detour and stop by the cabin at Ghost Ranch to make a drawing.

It was too windy to stay outside for long.

I was glad to see the early abstract paintings by O'Keeffe, especially the room of watercolors.

A WAY IN AND A WAY OUT

Avery Mountain from Gothic

Drawing a way to go on paper,

A path, a clearing

A way in and

A way out.

Independence, Cottonwood, Kebler, Hilliard, Scofield, Cinnamon, Halfmoon

Painting up in Gothic, near Crested Butte last month,

I kept thinking of mountain passes,

a path between two mountains that allows the crossing of a mountain chain,

usually the highest point on that route. Also called a gap, col or saddle.