Two New Paintings!

Here are two new palette knife oil paintings, both 8x10 inches. "Eve at Lynx Lake" and "At Maroon Bells National Park."

A few recent paintings!

Here are three recent studio oil paintings.  "Blue Juniper" and "Bright Angel" are available, however "Ponderosa" is already called for (but I could make prints of it if you are interested).  I posted images of two of these already, but today they were dry enough to scan in at high resolution.  Enjoy!

"Blue Juniper"  11x14



"Bright Angel" 9x12




"Ponderosa" 12x16



"Ponderosa"

 "Ponderosa" is a 12x16 oil painting I just completed this morning.  I've included the charcoal sketch I used as a reference for the painting and the original source of inspiration, a photograph taken near Flagstaff May of 2009 during early morning.  As you can see, the painting has changed significantly from the photograph, which was my intention.  I don't want to copy the photograph but paint a landscape that is about processing the scene through my creative filter, concentrating on mood of color and light instead of the details of a photograph.  I really should be working on my thesis, but I felt like I needed a boost from a morning in the studio.  I rationalized this by waking up at 6am so I would still have all of the afternoon to work on the left brained stuff.  Plus, I can't work all day on one side of the brain...  Sorry about all of the shiny spots on the image above, the painting was still wet and probably will be for a couple more weeks.  I used a comination of palette knife and a #10 brush on this painting.