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Valley of the Gods Spire and Ravine. After spending the night in the Valley, I raced to photograph the monuments with long shadows and interesting foreground elements. With this painting, I applied an especially warm/cool color scheme. I painted on linen with a technique that makes my brush almost function like a palette knife. I enjoy using this technique of large blocks of thick strokes with little blending.

Spires and Ravines at Valley of the Gods

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Valley of the Gods Butte and Ravine. After spending the night in the valley, I raced to photograph the monuments with long shadows and with interesting foreground elements. This is another in that series. This technique feels like one that is determining where my personal painting style is headed.

God's Fingerprint

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Cheesebox Mesa, UT. The large blocks and strokes caused this image to be enhanced in color, while being simplified in detail . Painting this way on linen is a blast!

Dawn at Cheesebox Mesa

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Arizona Mountains was painted from a screen capture off a video about camping in Arizona. I embraced the opportunity to paint the secondary-colors, and make a painting with variations on orange, violet, and green.

Arizona Mountains

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This painting illustrates a window thru aspens as seen along Kebler Pass. I like to paint long narrow formats, allowing me to playfully explore colors, and details.

Kebler Pass Aspen Detail

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Red Hawk and Snowy Rock Formation at Valley of the Gods. I saw Ernest's photo on Google Maps and quickly requested permission to paint it. He generously shared the original high res photos, including many I hadn't seen. The red hawk was an addition to the painting, in order to add life to the scene. I was amazed with how few brush strokes the hawk required.

Red Hawk over Valley of the Gods

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Dusk at Fajada Butte at Chaco Canyon

Dusk at Fajada Butte at Chaco Canyon

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At dawn I drove to the back side of Cathedral Rock. I was stunned by all the wild flowers, and later by the hot-air balloon that briefly touched the top of the rock. This is one of my favorite paintings I have ever completed.

Cathedral Rock at Dawn

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Capturing the colorful clouds was my main goal with this painting. I Love the challenge of creating textures in my paintings.

Dusk with Pedernal in the Distance

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Creek Road Near Taos, NM. While visiting Taos, I shot photos of a dirt road between the trees, and then photographed a nearby creek. While creating the painting, the two photos merged into one imaginary landscape.

Creek Road Near Taos

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Ophir Creek in Autumn. I have painted this tranquil meadow that I have painted several times. I love the layers of depth and the Autumn colors. This is located between Rye and San Isabel.

Gentle Morning at Ophir Creek Road

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Dawn at Shiprock

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What a beautiful natural landscape. Great place to camp with my Chihuahua.

Randy's Windmill Along the Chama River

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Another painting on black canvas, with negatively-painted tree. Fun to paint the textures thickly.

Abandoned Farm House

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Sometimes God places beautiful scenery before me, to photograph and paint. View from the shoulder of the road.

Wheat Field Near Cortez, CO

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Experiment with texture and lighting.

Dusk with Pedernal Hiding Behind the Hill

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Grand Canyon Late Afternoon. I painted several of Paris Latka's photos taken during a life changing and emotional trip for her. This painting is from a stunning view of the Grand Canyon in the late afternoon.

Grand Canyon Late Afternoon

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Imaginary Creek Somewhere in the Southwest

Imaginary Creek in a Tiny Canyon

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Dusk with Distant View of Cerro Pedernal

Long Shadows on Georgia's Peak

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On a photo expedition with Mike, I was attracted to the long shadows. The sand dunes are visible in the distance.

Great Sand Dunes on the Foothills

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Experimental way to paint colorful clouds on black canvas.

Colorful Clouds in Utah

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Decided I wanted to know what it was like to paint Starry Night. So I painted it almost the exact size of the original, with similar thick brush strokes, however, I used every color from the opposite side of the color wheel. So it's Van Gogh's Starry Night, but not. I called mine Dusty Dawn.

Dusty Dawn

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On my way to New Mexico I was struck by the peaceful meadow and ranch road. The texture created in the trees was so much fun.

San Luis Valley Ranch Road

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Painting on black canvas, where the colors and textures in the foreground shadows was so much fun to do.

Dusk near Ghost Ranch

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Walker Ranch welcomed artists to paint on their farm. Painting donated to Rudl and Dar Mergleman who were among the few who appreciated it.

Grey Hay - Beyond the Gate

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This painting sprang out of a conversation. The client shared an image of the river and mentioned that her husband loved elk. When I painted this, I snuck the elk in as a surprise.

Fording the Arkansas

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I was experimenting with the outline style and feeling influenced by Robert Daughters. In addition to the black outlines the lighting strike was fun to do as a white outline.

Lightning at Ghost Ranch

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I loved this sunset at the riverbend. When I looked down, I was shocked to find a memorial to my artist hero- Louisa McElwain! I have painted this famous view several times. I just love it!

Riverbend at Abiquiu

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I love the area West of Pueblo in the Fall when the cottonwoods change.

Siloam Road

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Wonderful little bridge in the middle of nowhere, where the swallows fly at dusk. Fun to enhance the colors and play with the shapes

Little Burnt Mill Road Bridge

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Adjacent to Cerro Pedernal, NM. My sister and I visited Pedernal a couple of times recently. This painted emerged as a play with the colors and shapes.

Pedernal Foothills

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Talpa Mission Church was south of Taos, but it no longer stands. I painted from several historic black & white photos. I have included the one that shows a man standing the roof. This church was apparently not very large.

Talpa Mission Church Near Taos

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Hiking Trail at Ojo Caliente. My sister recently visited Ojo and shared her photos with me. This one had elements that I thought would be fun to paint, giving me an opportunity to explore my new techniques.

Hiking Trail Above Ojo Caliente

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Tunnel Road near Canon City from a photo by Si Nayman. I added back in the tunnel which was cropped out of his photo. I felt like it mirrored the moon in negative, and was needed because the rock formation was so expansive.

Tunnel Drive near Canon City

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I spent a morning from before dawn at Shiprock. It is SO AMAZING! Not sure how I pulled my little teardrop camper there in the dark, because I even had a difficult time getting out in mid-day. This is what I think of as the "other side" of Shiprock. I painted the foreground more hilly and included more vegetation.

Portside of Shiprock

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Lighthouse in San Juan islands. Painted in the outline style as a first attempt for a commission. Ultimately the client chose a second version with no black outlines, but I still love the original best. This is called Lime Kiln Lighthouse. The clients had seen whales later that day, and requested the addition of the whale tale. I loved that addition.

Lighthouse and Whale Tail

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Rock Formation in Utah. This scene appeared briefly in a YouTube video about hiking and camping, where I screen captured. I took quite a bit of license with this subject, but enjoyed the process.

Rock Formation in Utah

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Sunset at Lime Kiln Lighthouse in San Juan Islands

Sunset at Lime Kiln Lighthouse

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Black & White Aspens. Painted for a show that was for black and white entries only. Kinda fun to imagine the colors, and good exercise to think only in values. Photo was taken somewhere along the Phantom Canyon.

Black and White Aspen

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Waterfall at Coyote Gulch, near Escalante, Utah.

Waterfall at Coyote Gulch

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Bluffs along Chama River near Abiquiu. This setting can be found about a mile off the highway, on the road to the monastery. There is an old windmill near here, and the valley blooms in beautiful cactus blossoms in the spring.

Neapolitan Bluffs

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Sunset from Florence High School. I was attracted to the late evening warm light streaming under the dark threatening clouds. It created so many layers.

Sunset from Florence High School

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Fishers Towers, UT. My sister took this photo years ago, at Fisher's Towers. I have always been impressed by the light and shadows on the bluff, and the potential for a red-green-blue overall color scheme.

Fishers Towers UT

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I was adventuring with my teardrop trailer and this view stopped me in my tracks!

Bluffs Near Mexican Hat

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Collection of the artist's daughter

Prairie Sunset Southern Colorado

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Created as a commission for family friends for hosting us on a vacation near Austin TX

Lone Pinon Sunset

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Experiment for painting white water on black canvas with ample texture.

Whitewater Autumn

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From the location where Forest Gump ended his run near Mexican Hat UT.

Mexican Hat Sunset

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From my trip to the north rim of the Grand Canyon

Window Rock at Grand Canyon

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Watched the sun rise over the mountain and watched a hot air balloon touch and go at the top.

Cathedral Rock in Sedona

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This was inspired by a friend's photo. She had taken a photography bootcamp in Utah and I was so impressed by her work!

Long Shadows in Utah

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I just loved these colors and the way the light streamed through the forest.

Streaming Through

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Created as a commission for family friends to thank them for hosting us for vacation near Austin TX.

Lighthouse Rock

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I got up before dawn to visit the sunrise at Shiprock. It was worth it for the sense of awe at witnessing this beautiful site.

Shiprock Dawn

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Love the area that Georgia painted, near Ghost Ranch. The colors of the rocks light up at sunset.

Sunset Near Ghost Ranch NM

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The sunset stopped me in my tracks while on the way home from Florence CO. Turned out to be a difficult painting.

Dramatic Sunset over Florence Bluff

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This painting centered around a new process I was trying in which I started with a black canvas. While I photoed the site in the day, this painting wanted to be a night scene.

Moon Reflectinng on the South Fork River near Creede

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I experimented with this outline style and discovered I created a quiltwork style in the shadows.

Elk Quilt

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The textures of rock in the canyon and the play of the light with the sense of depth just had to be painted!

Canyon De Chelly

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Bluff South of Florence CO. This bluff stands in contrast to clouds and dark distant mountains. Painted as part of Paint-the-Town a few years ago. I was playing with an outline technique. I even tried magenta outlines for the warm clouds. Enjoyed how the chamisa shapes echoed the cloud shapes.

Chamisa and Thunder Heads at Florence

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From my autumn sojourns to Kebler Pass

Kebler Aspens

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I'm in the Blue Spruce Gallery in Florence. I had never painted it until this day as part of "Paint the Town."

Big Blue

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I painted this commission by combining multiple family photos from near their cabin.

Wind-Blown Snow on Spanish Peaks

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I photographed the South Fork River in daylight. When I began painting, I began to visualize it as a nightime scene.

Cold Feet

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Autumn Near Salida CO

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Created as a commission for family friends for hosting us on a vacation near Austin TX. Based on a free-use photo from the internet

Morning Sunrise in Texas

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Commissioned for a woman with fond memories of her cabin in La Vita.

Stonewall at Spanish Peaks

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The reflections in the water and on the water were the epitome of Fall.

Autumn on the Arkansas

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From a river rafting adventure and photos taken by my friend Paris Latka

Colorado River Canyon

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Comissioned work - a view from the family's cabin.

Road at Cripple Creek

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My niece and sister took a wonderful trip to Italy, and returned with photos. This was a blast to paint.

Italian Coast

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Grand Canyon North Rim. I love the contrasts and the depth of images of the Grand Canyon. And I enjoy that there are fewer tourists on the northside.

Cape Royal at Grand Canyon

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Terraza in Old Mexico. From a photo by my friend Sheri, from her recent trip to Mexico.

Terraza in Old Mexico

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The Old Pine at Darien CT. Loosely based on historic painting by that name by the late John Freidrick Kensett, over 100 years ago. I was inspired to try my hand at it also, but his being superior to mine. I did, however, like all of the subtle colors that I added in the sky.

The Old Pine, Darien, CT

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A commission painting from a friends vacation.

Vacation Cabana

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Collection of the Artist. I painted on black canvas, so that the fence is negative-painted

Fence with Aspens on Kebler Pass

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Blue Heron Lakes near Florence CO

Blue Heron Lakes Florence CO

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Wildflowers near Creede CO. I stopped for the photo because I was floored by the huge yellow flower against the dark evergreen background

Wildflowers at Creede

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Love the area near Abiquiu.

River Near Abiquiu NM

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Experimental floral painting.

Textured Floral

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Our friends Toni and Sissy photographed the cactus in the car lights outside their condo in Mesa. That made an interesting challenge to paint.

Cactus Near Mesa AZ

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A student showed me winter a photo she had taken and I fell in love with the image and asked permission to paint it. I asked about the orange sky, and she explained that it was because she was "too cold". She had been reluctant to roll the window down, and her brown window tint filtered the sky color. Amazing.

I Was Too Cold

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Experiment in creating depth and drama

Hot Day Before the Storm

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Plaza Blanco north of Abiquiu NM. The volcanic ash has form beautiful bluffs of light-grey. People often think this is a snow painting, but its light sand instead.

Plaza Blanca Near Abiquiu

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Competition called for art that demonstrates the concept of "perspective". Fun challenge.

Perspective Challenge

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