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.

Plein Air Painting June 10

Painted at Diane's house. Small white shed. 9X12, oil on canvas panel.

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!

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.

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.

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.