Grand Canyon 7 Show
This year, at the Grand Canyon Association's Plein Air on the Rim Invitational, a few of us "veterans" to the three year old event were having breakfast together. We started talking about having some sort of group show together at Amery Bohling's new gallery in Scottdale. With us mostly meeting through participating in the Grand Canyon event, it naturally became our theme. The Grand Canyon 7 was born. There's not a weak link in the group and every artist has a unique and confident visual poetry to offer the show. The artists includes Dave Santillanes, Amery Bohling, Bill Cramer, George ...
Painting the Figure In the Landscape
Bonnie Ganglehof contacted me in October because she was writing and article for Southwest Art Magazine's January edition called Painting the Figure in to the Landscape. This being something that I do frequently, she decided to include me in the article. Naturally, and honored by the request, I did it as well and putting a full page advertisement in the edition. The article inspired me to dig up past paintings of the subject and compile a special gallery of that type of work. As many of you know, I do a lot of plein air work and many highly coveted invitational ...
Zion National Park Plein Air Invitational 2011
In the Footsteps of Thomas Moran, Zion National Park's Plein Air Invitational is growing and becoming one of the premier events in the Desert Southwest. Taking place in Zion National Park, the paintability of the area is second to none. The event is very well organized by a team of people working for the Zion National Park Foundation, the Park itself, and the event visionary, Anne Weiler-Brown. The Event raises funds the help the Zion National Park Foundation which has a mission to conserve natural resources and educate people about the park and it's assets. A worthy cause especially after ...
Sedona Plein Air Invitational 2011
This years Sedona Plein Air Invitational was good but not great. I think the Sedona Art Center does a great job with most of their organization, but a couple of tweaks to the show could make it great. The paintability of the area is of course amazing. Oak Creek, the Red Rocks, Dry washes, and Jerome, it all will blow your mind. The sales and attendance are both down for the opening night gala which is not good for a show. I think that this is a result of some shortsighted vision in the powers that be. The following tweak will revive ...
AUTUMN in CO 2011
The colors of Colorado have waned since returning from the Grand Canyon Plein Air on the Rim Invitational. I was able to get out there and get some work done though. The body of work including studio paintings from the last few weeks is posted below and available paintings can be viewed under Paintings in the navigation bar above. [nggallery id=25]
Painting Wildlife in to a Scene
I've been putting some wildlife in my paintings lately and having some fun doing it. As one can imagine, wildlife is very figurative and some knowledge of mammalian anatomy is very helpful. Anytime you add a living breathing element to a painting it sort of changes the compositional dynamic. The ...
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March 11, 2009
Doing Field Studies At A Ski Area
Painting at a ski area can be lucrative, fun, and a great way to market yourself as an artist. Monarch Ski area is the ski area closest to where I live (about 20 minutes). I write off the expense of a season pass because it's a "business" destination. It's a win-win ...
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March 9, 2009
My New Favorite Place to Paint
Salida, CO is nestled in what has become known as "The Heart of the Rockies." It's a small mountain community in the Collegiate Mountain Range of the Central Rockies, and like many other high altitude communities, it used to be a large mining town. It lies along the Arkansas River at ...
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February 16, 2009
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