14×18″ Acrylic– $425– This is the beautiful lake at the end of the road from Tom’s Place in the eastern Sierras and a morning painting of the creek that weaves it’s way through the canyons below it.
Rock Creek– 10×20″ acrylic– $400
Month: July 2016
Lake Elizabeth
12×24″ Acrylic on Canvas Panel– $600 — This beautiful alpine lake is just a couple miles up from Tuolumne Meadows. Nice to have the opportunity to use some Pthalo Turquoise paint…
Tuolumne River Colors
Acrylic– 10×20″– $450– It was good to paint and swim in the Tuolumne River which is flowing strong after the heavy snowfall this year. I love the colors of the glacier polished rocks under the water.
Acrylic– 8×10″– $200
Mesa Verde Summer Stormclouds
Acrylic 10×20″– Acrylic on Archival Paper– $450– We were lucky to get a little afternoon rain after a hot day at Mesa Verde. It was so incredible to see the beautifully designed cliff dwellings here and to realize the size of the community that farmed corn, beans and squash on the mesas 700 years ago.
Pueblo Sunrise
Acrylic 10×20″– $450– Down this canyon in Navajo National Monument is an amazing lush watershed with an enormous sandstone cave facing south featuring incredible stone and clay houses built by the ancestors of the Hopi hundreds of years ago… a brilliantly designed oasis in the desert.
Summer Camping
My family and I just got home from a wonderful camping road trip through the southwest. I made a lot of paintings along the way to share over the next few weeks. 
Grand Canyon Sunset– Acrylic on Mounted Canvas– 12×24″ –$550
Two things to know about plein air painters:
- We get so absorbed in what we are doing that we don’t pay attention to other things around us… (like mile high cliffs behind us)
- We often step backwards blindly to see how the painting compares to the view.
Fortunately no painters were harmed in the making of this painting. : )
