Winter in the Colorado Studio

Overcast Early Morning

Sunrise Out My Winter Window

Early First Sun

Embracing winter with a series of paintings from my studio window
with memories of Spain last summer. But I always liked the

bare trees, how they make drawings in the sky!

Walking and Drawing

A few end of year drawings done while walking

the reservoir at the Ridgway State Park. It's

an extremely mild holiday week, we need more

snow!

PAINTING IN CRESTED BUTTE, COLORADO 6/19-22, 2011

The paintings can be seen at the OH-BE-JOYFUL GALLERY

Opening Reception July 15th, 2011 from 5-9PM

Hope to see you there!

SPRING SNOW

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

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.

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.

June 22, 2010

Drawing trees, on a walk, the direction and movement of their limbs, interconnected, and the shapes of the spaces they make. These drawings often are the start for a studio painting.

"The walk magnified is the journey" - the big landscape and then the closeness of a tree.

COLORADO LANDSCAPE
I found A POEM IS A WALK by A.R. Ammons - "I take the walk to be the externalization of an

interior seeking...".

There are many drawings done on walks in these books that I carry with me. So much looking,

then really seeing something, and then making a drawing.

June 15, 2010

The land and the aspen tree has been the focus of my work for the last ten years.