DeKoevend

Six PAAC painters met in DeKoevend Park at Centenial, Colorado, for this week's Denver "paint out".  The mountains were even more dramatic that usual, with recent snowfall. I sat on top of a picnic table to get my feet off the snow pack. I dressed warm, but the sun was so bright it felt hot as an oven. It had been my plan to paint over another painting. However, I neglected to take my palette knives, so note the brushwork!

 

9" x 12"       Oil Painting         $675

Deer Creek Canyon

PAAC painted in Deer Creek Canyon last week. Nature's stacking & outcroppings of brilliant red rock is a wonder. I could paint here every day the rest of the year.

 

11" x 14"   Oil Painting    $550

Red Rock In Winter

We met this week at Red Rock State Park. I might have chosen a vista with mountains in the distance, but they met in a lot looking at the hillside. The light was better here in the morning. I painted over an older painting.  Quite an interesting challenge.

 

12" x 16"    Oil Painting        $450

Lisa & Shaun Christmas Eve

My housemates were so kind to indulge me by posing yesterday. They have been so kind to me and I wanted to give them this special gift. Fortunately they like the impressionistic style in which I paint.

 

14" x18"       oil painting        NFS

Winter Solstice, Colorado

Denver Colorado Plein Air group met at Englewood, Colorado this week. The fields and trees were somewhat bleak & muted, but the mountains glowed vibrant in purples beneath the cobalt sky.

 

14" x 18"         Oil Painting         $375

Grand Scale Of Things

While driving over to paint with the PAAC painters this vista caught my eye. I had to return to try to capture it. Again I used a birchwood panel coated with clear varnish.

 

11" x 14"     Oil on Wood Panel        $550

Winter Canal

This canal is part of the Cherry Creek spillway that runs behind the house where I live. I walked a half mile or so to this spot that seemed to glow in the winter sunlight. The square birchwood panel is nicely finished. I coated it with a clear varnish leaving the natual wood color to come through in some areas.

 

18" x 18"       Oil on board       $550