LAS NUBES DE TRUCHAS – 12″x44″ Work in Progress
LAS NUBES DE TRUCHAS – 12″x44″ Work in Progress (Underpainting) – Original Oil on Belgian Linen. All colors mixed with Winsor Newton Underpainting White and Turpentine –Clouds: some Naples Yellow Light. Payne’s Grey for darker areas. Sky: Cobalt Blue, some Thalo Blue and Thalo Green. Foreground: Olive Green, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Yellow Ochre […]
MORE SOURCE MATERIAL – INTO THE SUNSET……
Gather ye source material while ye may!!! A quick sunset trip through the hiways and byways of Tesuque Village and Rio en Medio last evening – 10/30/14…….
PREPARING MY CANVAS – GESSO/TONED GROUND
PREPARING MY PAINT SURFACE (Canvas, untempered masonite panels, birch panels, Italian Gessoed panels) – All my paint surfaces are prepared with two to three coats of toned gesso. What I like about the gessoing is that it fills up the interstices of the canvas and the toned ground softens the final layers of paint. (Toned […]
HOW I PAINT – FIELD WORK – Photography
FIELD WORK – Photography — Years ago I painted plein air when I could. Had three small children at home and worked a full time job! Would get together with friends and pack my paints to have some wonderful autumn afternoons painting in Madrid and Golden, N.M. Then some kind soul gifted me with a […]
HOW I PAINT – WHAT TO PAINT? FIELD WORK
HOW I PAINT – FIELD WORK: CHOOSING MY SUBJECT MATTER. Before leaving Chicago for Santa Fe, N.M. 48 years ago, I was able to be one of thousands who lined up at the Art Institute for the major Andrew Wyeth retrospective. After waiting in lines that stretched almost to Lake Michigan, we were only given […]
CHIMAYO, N.M. – Oct. 18, 2014
FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL – CHIMAYO, N.M. – Starting some sketches today – organizing paints, setting up a new palette…. life is good!
ON THE ROAD IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO – 10/18/2014
ON THE ROAD with the Dollie Sisters yesterday (Jan McDowell and Jolene Allen) – Almost 250 new pics! The trees are at their glorious peak all over the north country – Truchas, Chimayo, Dixon – heavy frosts are late this year. Canvases are gessoed in many different sizes – making a list and ordering the […]
U. S. HILL (Taos, New Mexico) – 8″x10″ Original Oil, Framed
U. S. HILL (Taos, New Mexico) – 8″x10″ Original Oil, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner – Sold.
GARCIA PARK (Taos, New Mexico) – 30″x60″ Original Oil
GARCIA PARK (Taos, New Mexico) – 30″x60″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen – wrap-around painting. Now available for purchase. – Preview.
BEING GRATEFUL TODAY……
EARLY SNOW CLOUDS AT PICURIS – Archival Print from an original painting – you are invited to visit The High Road Print Catalog. Oh yes! It’s that time of year again – fall sneaked up on us here about two nights ago – a chill in the air. This morning landlord checking the heating zones […]
