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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Christmas Card 2010


Each year I do my Christmas card using one of my paintings or drawings. This year's card was different from my usual winter landscape scene, and was influenced by my visit to the Ghost Ranch in Abiqui, New Mexico and the home of artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Her home has numerous collections of skulls, bones and rocks which she used in some of her paintings. This is my "Georgia O'Keeffe" Christmas card, adding the red Christmas bulb to my drawing.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Trip to Santa Fe and Ghost Ranch




Recently traveled to Santa Fe and toured the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and her home and studio in Abiqui. Really inspiring, so here are two of my paintings, painted from photos that I took on the trip. The poplar trees were brilliant, and the bluffs of Ghost Ranch stunning.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Park Hill Art Club Fall Show and Sale

You're invited to the Park Hill Art Club Show and Sale, Friday, Nov. 5, 4:30-8, Sat. Nov. 6, 10-6, and Sunday Nov. 7, 9:30-4. I'm not in the show this year, but there will be over 1,000 original pieces of art for sale at great prices. Park Hill United Methodist Church, 5209 Montview Blvd. , Denver, CO.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Color Field Painting




Studying color fields. Reproductions of paintings by Jules Olitski's Tin Lizzie Green, and Mark Rothko's #34, that I did by glazing, using layers of oil paint mixed with Res-n-gel and mineral spirits. American painter Helen Frankenthaler is credited with pioneering this new technique, in which color gained primacy and became both composition and subject matter. I am learning this technique from Carlene Frances http://www.carlenefrances.com/

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Sketches











Heading to Lake Powell for some boating, so wanted to practice sketching. Since I have been doing oils, and there's not much room for my oil paints and easel, needed to work with my watercolors. These are done from photos; watercolor and sepia pen on 5X7 Bristol paper.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Painting from Pine, CO


Finally got out to do some plein air painting at Pine, CO, on the North Fork of the South Platte River.

Oil on panel, 11 X 14.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Front Range Birding Company Open House/Art Sale




Mark your calendars, May 1, 10:00 to 5:00 p.m. I will be at the Front Range Birding Company Open House and Charity Drive. I will have a booth selling my bird art at reduced prices. Deb Jenkins will also be in the booth selling her art and sculptures. A percentage of the sales will go to the Front Range Birding Company and the Jason Dahl Charity and Greater Littleton Youth Initiative. Last year over 1,000 people were in attendance. For directions and more information their website is: http://www.frontrangebirding.com/ click on "About", then "Birding Festival". Also see http://www.yourhub.com/ change location to Littleton edition, click "Events", click May 1 calendar, then click "Jason Dahl Scholarship Fund Raiser. The Front Range Birding Company is in the shopping center on the NE corner of C-470 and Kipling, 9956 W. Remington Place, Suite A-7.

Hope to see you there!

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Workshop with Tim Deibler-Color Temperatures











I attended a two day workshop at Abend Gallery with Artist Tim Deibler on Color Temperatures. All paintings were done with only the three primary colors of reds, blues and yellows. Each canvas was divided into 4, 6X8 squares and each painting was done with various primary colors in a period of 45 minutes.

The last painting of the mountain stream was painted upside down.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

6th Annual Romancing The Arts Exhibit


My painting "Feeling Fallish" was judged into the 6th Annual Romancing The Arts Exhibit, Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox, Castle Rock. Reception Friday, Feb. 12th 6-8 p.m. The show opens Feb. 5 and runs through March 11, 2010. This will be my first time in the show, so hope you can make it. It will be for sale: Acrylic on canvas, 30" X 24", $350.

Friday, January 8, 2010

How About Them Apples?


New painting, 8 x 10 oil on canvas. When I showed it to my son, he said "How About Them Apples", thus the name of the painting.