Prairie Sunset

Can't believe it's been three months since I posted anything.  I have started a painting of a sunset scene.  I took some photos at Pawnee Buttes on an archaeology survey I did with History Colorado.  In the painting I combined a sunset photo and a photo of some cattle and a windmill.  The progression  shows the start with the clouds, then added darker clouds, the sunset and then the windmill.  Still working on the cattle in the foreground. Oil on canvas 24 x 30.

Tree Collage

Fluid Acrylics on 6X6 board with bushes from egg carton and tree trunks from old strips of water color paintings. Finished with epoxy.

Desert Collage

This is a collage I did with pieces of paper and fluid acrylics. The cactus on the left is done with corrugated cardboard painted green, other papers are tissue paper, torn up egg cartons. The gessoed board was covered with moulding paste for texture before painting. The scene is the same one I did an oil painting of in a previous post.

Arctic, Nature's Educators Gyrfalcon

This is a painting of Nature's Educators Gyrfalcon Arctic. Oil on 8X10 canvas. He came to us from a breeding facility in the pacific northwest and is now part of our education program. He is 18 years old.

Sabino Canyon, Tucson, AZ

This is a painting I did from a photograph of Sabino Canyon, Tucson, AZ vacation. Birding and hiking. Did you know a Saguaro cactus grows one inch in 10 years, three feet in 50 years, and its first arm in 85-100 years. So, the cactus in this painting is very old. Oil on canvas, 8X10.

Harris's Hawk

Harris's Hawk, Zeus is another raptor with Nature's Educators. He used to be a falconer's bird, but now is an education raptor. Oil on 8X10 canvas.

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Athena the Great Horned Owl

This is a painting I did this afternoon. Oil on canvas, 8X10, painted from Bill Pelzmann's photo, Rocky Mountain Nature Photographers. Nature's Educators did a photo shoot with the club in January. Athena is Nature's Educators Great Horned Owl. I volunteer with Nature's Educators and was Athena's handler during the photo shoot.

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