WINTER ROAD – Special Print Offer – Visit the HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE

“WINTER ROAD” Winter on the road to the ranch at Llano Quemado (suburban Truchas). My first winter there was an unknown — I bought a little freezer from Sears and filled it to the brim with groceries. Foresight was rewarded when it snowed for days over the Christmas holidays — the snowplow didn’t come through […]

DOS ARBOLES DE TAOS – Click here to visit THE PRINT STORE

3 November  -FYI — Have begun a new web log entitled “THE PRINT STORE”.  This blog will be a venue for new print images, both small and large, available through my Taos studio.  It is my intention to post to this blog on a regular basis.  You are invited to bookmark that page and visit […]

WINTER DREAMS – Click to Visit the High Road Print Catalogue

21 October 2009 — Cloudy, raining – just looked out of my kitchen window to the hills in the distance — SNOW! My first thought was “I’m not ready for winter”! Going to visit with son, John, today — fix him a nice lunch. Clean up the studio — set up a new palette — […]

48″x60″ Original Oil Painting “FIRST LIGHT”

“FIRST LIGHT”48″x60″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian LinenCall Taos Studio (575)758-7454 Earth, give me back your pristine gifts,towers of silence which rose fromthe solemnity of their roots.I want to go back to being what I haven’t been, to learn to return from such depthsthat among all natural thingsI may live or not live. I don’t […]

FIRST LIGHT – 48″X60″ WORK IN PROGRESS – OPAQUE COLORS

23 September 2009 – Making progress! Have concentrated on the top one-third of the painting. The sky and distant landscape are completed and, I believe, inform the light for the rest of the canvas. The middle ground – I have found some long forgotten tubes of Transparent Oxide Yellow and Transparent Oxide Red — Am […]

FIRST LIGHT – 48″x60″ Oil Painting (Work in Progress)

21 September 2009, Taos, N.M. — “PENTIMENTI is an alteration in a painting….that the artist has changed his mind as to the composition during the process of painting – the word derives from the Italian pentirsi, meaning to repent”. First of all I changed the name from “Donde Nace la Vida” to “FIRST LIGHT” – […]