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.

Ghost Ranch 3

Another painting of the Ghost Ranch area. Oil on canvas, 11 X 14.

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.

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.

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/

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.

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.