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.

DRAWN FROM NATURE - The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly

One of the best things about painting in Telluride for that week the beginning of July was ducking into the Wilkinson Library to get out of the rain and finding this book of plant drawings by Ellsworth Kelly. I had seen a few before but this is the complete collection of

the lithographs he did from the drawings.

More July Plein Air Painting

An amazing view of Lizard Head can be seen from the "front yard" the High Camp Cabin!

And this is the other direction. Looking toward the basin where Round Lake is located.

You can see actual photos of this high-altitude landscape at their website - go to links.