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While waiting for something else to dry…..

Painting a couple of birds and a cicada while waiting for a sky to dry. It is a very wet and cold weekend and nothing seems to want to dry.

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And then everything changes

And then it becomes this and the rain sets in.

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Almost the same view

There is just something so wonderful about all the open sky and space. Another watercolor of New Hampshire, 12 x 30″

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Wide Open Sky

Skies and clouds in class this week. Hours of watching rugby and the fast deteriorating weather pay off when it comes to painting wide skies and great cloud formations. Here is a relatively benign New Hampshire lake scene done for class. I love the short/wide format when it comes to this subject matter. Watercolor, 8 x 30″.

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Taos, Early Evening

Watercolor sketch of graveyard at Taos Pueblo, early evening, the violet hour

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Turquoise Trail

On the road to Madrid, New Mexico, looking down to the start of the “turquoise trail”. First stop, Cerillos, home to many old turquoise mines.  Oil on canvas, 12 x 12″

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View Through

Looking into a courtyard, late morning light. Oil, 12 x 12″

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Embroidered Lawn. 2

Dandelions against a dark night sky,

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A weed is only a flower in the wrong place

Late April/early May is the perfect time to appreciate the charms of an ” embroidered” lawn. Violets everywhere and thousands of dandelions in among the moss and the struggling grass blades. If only they were less common, their graceful shape might be more appreciated. Violets and dandelions on a very blue watercolor background with white ink.

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South West Study

Landscape study inspired by walking up the canyon at Tent Rocks, south of Santa Fe. Acrylic on canvas, beginning with a Burnt Sienna toned background. 12 x 12″.

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