CANTO HONDO (Deep Song – Llano San Juan, New Mexico) – Large Studio Edition Print – 17″x22″ sheet size. Now available at Online Gallery/Store – Preview/Purchase

WORD PAINTINGS #104 – MAKING A PAINTING

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It takes patience and courage to “become” an artist – the truth is you never stop “becoming”.  This is the best part! That blank canvas staring at you from the easel is full of mystery and promise. Then again it might turn out to be the ugliest things the world has ever seen!  You will […]

WORD PAINTINGS #103 – A WANDERING MIND

FIRST SNOW (Truchas, New Mexico) New 40″x40″ Original Oil – Sold   16 October 2020 – Llano Quemado, New Mexico.  Can you believe it? Only 18 more days until the election!  Morning memories, thoughts are sometimes very powerful. Today a connection was made to my childhood comparing that time to these last four years of […]

LAZY RIVER DREAMING (Rio Grande at Pilar) – New 30″x24 Work in Progress – Glazes

LAZY RIVER DREAMING (Rio Grande at Pilar, New Mexico) – New 30″x24 Work in Progress – Glazes & Middle Tones. Glazes are usually the dark colors on your palette thinned to a transparency with painting medium.  Middle tones are a mixture of opaque colors and glazes. Color Notes:  Sky: Permalba wite, Cerulean Blue.  Hills: Holbein […]

LAZY RIVER DREAMING (Pilar, New Mexico) – NEW 30″x24″ Work in Progress

 LAZY RIVER DREAMING (Pilar, New Mexico) – 30″x24″ Work in Progress – Underpainting.  On Blue Gray toned ground.Most Colors mixed with Grumbacher MG Underpainting White & Winsor Newton Distilled Turpentine. Hills: Burnt Sienna, Ochre, Payne’s Grey.  River: Prussian Blue, Permalba White.  Foliage: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.