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Aspen Plein Air Invitational 2012

July 20, 2012 by jbeen | 1 Comment

Aspen’s Plein Air Invitational was the week following the 4th of July. I spent the week camping up on Lincoln Creek in my camper trailer and Bill Cramer and I were taking baths in the Devil’s Punchbowl. Cold, Clear, and Refreshing!! Click the image to the left to see me busting a GAINER right in to the punchbowl!! I give it a 10!! The show in Aspen should be better. Not sure why, but the sales are just not FANTASTIC. I would think that Aspenites would jump at the opportunity to get a painting painted of their beautiful area that very week and just shake my head at the fact that we were not overrun with enthusiastic people scrambling and fighting over the work?! The Galleries in Aspen are all a complete joke showing schlockey, pressed out, downright bad work with a “contemporary” new age bend. My take on the lack of huge numbers at this show is simply people just didn’t know about it. I would like to see the Sheridan Arts Foundation take Aspen to another level by putting a LOT more energy in to advertising and possibly just getting to know the area a bit more. Still I did manage to sell about 10 paintings and it was well worth the fun and excitement of going and painting the area. Extra curricular activities not recommended!!

Anyway below is the body of work from the trip!! Enjoy and please browse to the Landscape Painting Gallery Page using the navigation bar above for availability of the work.

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$\'Towards The Fountain\' 12x6 Oil on Linen$

$\'Tenative\' 12x6 Oil on Linen$

$\'Independence Pass Aspen\' 12x6 Oil on Linen$

$\'Aspen Shadows\' 8x6 Oil on Linen$

$\'Roaring Fork Meanders\' 20x24 Oil on Linen$

$\'The Headwaters\' 10x15 Oil on Linen$

$\'Summer Dance\' 20x14 Oil on Linen$

$\'Roaring Fork Meanders\' 9x6 Oil on Linen$

$\'Red Onion Brellas\' 12x6 Oil on Linen$

$\'Last Light\' 16x20 Oil on Linen$

$\'Hunter Creek Bridge\' 6x12 Oil on Linen$

$\'Fountain Pull\' 8x8 Oil on Linen$

$\'Finbar Unbrellas\' 8x8 Oil on Linen$

$\'Devils Punchbowl\' 12x15 Oil on Linen$

$\'Aspen Rock Garden\' 9x12 Oil on Linen$

$\'Along Lincoln Creek\' 10x8 Oil on Linen$

$\'A Grey Day\' 10x12 Oil on Linen$

$\'Above the Narrows\' 6x12 Oil on Linen$

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Telluride Plein Air Invitational 2012

July 18, 2012 by jbeen | 7 Comments

Was in Telluride the week prior to the Fourth of July and had a blast!! This year the weather was great but camping in Town Park with a fire ban left a little to be desired. Telluride is one of my all-time favorite places to paint and one of the most beautiful places on Earth. There’s about 5 waterfalls that find their way to the bottom of the box canyon and I was on top of depicting them in oils!! The painting in the picture is a 24×30 multi-day plein air that I worked on during the same time of day for two days to complete. The picture was taken by a random hiker (Michelle McLellan thank you). I got the idea from friend and Best of Show artist this year, Bill Cramer, to put the ply wood on the roof rack for a view above the chaparral. If you’re thinking it might be a rice patty worker from China on the car and not me, you’d be wrong. I got the KAVU “Coolie” from Salida Mountain Sports and it’s a highly effective sunshade with a breathable mesh against your skull so it stays cooler than most hats!!

The Sheridan Arts Foundation that puts on the Telluride Invitational does a very good job and it’s an event I highly recommend to plein air painters that like to paint town scenes, vertical country, alpine lakes, waterfalls, and have a blast doing it.

This paragraph is for the accompanying artists…As per usual, I got a fair amount of heckling from them for the prices that I have my work at. I take this as a high compliment (in other words, I am painting at too high a quality for my reasonable prices) and I do not intend to raise them until demand dictates it. I was the TOP SELLER in Telluride this year, and I only came home with a couple of small paintings, so this tells me that I was in almost perfect alignment with Supply and Demand as it were. I think some artists that did not sell as well, would be better off NOT giving advice on how I price my work, and instead take notes on the careful orchestration of my success…Matching the sizes and prices to the Social Economic Demographic of the foot traffic.

Below is the body of work from Telluride. For availability, please browse to the AVAILABLE LANDSCAPE paintings pages using the navigation bar above.

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$\'Wait Your Turn\' 12x8 Oil on Linen$

$\'Sunrise on the Valley Floor\' 8x8 Oil on Linen$

$\'On The Way\' 24x30 Oil on Linen$

$\'Trusty Rusty\' 9x6 Oil on Linen$

$\'Telluride Truffle\' 7x5 Oil on Linen$

$\'The Bean\' 9x6 Oil on Linen$

$\'Old Green Dodge\' 6x9 Oil on Linen$

$\'Moonlit Lakes\' 8x8 Oil on Linen$

$\'Morning News\' 9x6 Oil on Linen$

$\'Legs and Arches\' 6x12 Oil on Linen$

$\'Going and Coming\' 8x6 Oil on Linen$

$\'Bridal Veil Mist\' 8x8 Oil on Linen$

$\'Summer Patches\' 15x16 Oil on Linen$

$\'Vespa Sidecar\' 8x8 Oil on Linen$

$\'Sunrise on the Power House\' 30x10 Oil on Linen$

$\'Columbine Garden\' 9x6 Oil on Linen$

$\'Below the Falls\' 15x18 Oil on Linen$

$\'Evening Icecream\' 7x5 Oil on Linen$

$\'Homestead with a View\' 8x8 Oil on Linen$

$\'Below Bridal Veil\' 10x8 Oil on Linen$

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Friends of Browns Canyon Benefit Show

June 4, 2012 by jbeen | 1 Comment

A NIGHT NOT TO BE MISSED!!
$25.00 Inlcudes catering by Kalamata Pit Catering.
June 21st, 6-9pm, The Thursday before Salida Artwalk, the famous Colorado photographer, John Fielder, local painter, Susan Mayfield, and myself will be doing a show at the Steamplant Event Center here in Downtown historic Salida, CO. Fielder will be showing a slide show of Colorado Rivers and have some of his photographs on display along with paintings by both myself and Susan Mayfield. A portion of the sales of the evening and ticket sales will benefit the Friends of Brown’s Canyon non profit organization. This organization strives to protect the area East of the train tracks along the Arkansas River in Brown’s Canyon. This area is home to Bald Eagles, Mountain Lions, Big Horn Sheep, Deer, Elk, and countless other critters and has endless potential for hiking and exploring. Below is the body of work I’ll be showing that evening with Fielder and Mayfield. Please order your tickets right away as it will surely sell out.

Click HERE for more information.

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