David Schwindt Artworks Gallery

Caprock Canyons Vista
Oil, Canvas, 20 x 16. Caprock Canyons State Park in the panhandle of Texas is another unique geological area that I love to paint. Similar to Palo Duro Canyon, a refuge for the Comanche during the so called "Indian Wars…
Mesatop View
Oil, Panel, 18 x 12. We used to hike in the Ojito Wilderness before it was designated as wilderness. It was one of my favorite places to escape the noise of the city. It still is a favorite, and I discover new areas and…
Evening Glare
Oil, Canvas, 12 x 24. We met up with extended family at Lewisville Lake in the Dallas area over Thanksgiving a few years ago, and I was intrigued by the evening light reflecting in the water. I liked the way the winter…
Mount Bonnell
giclee, Canvas, 18 x 22 x 2. This giclee print on gallery wrapped canvas is framed in a floater frame with dimensions of 18 x 22 by 2 inches deep. The subject is an old juniper on Mount Bonnell with the Pennybacker Brid…
Aspen on Tesuque Creek
Acrylic, Panel, 10 x 8. This painting is derived from studies I did years ago. I have revisited the area and found things similar yet different, and I want to continue working with the ideas. I am offering it as a Print…
South of Taos
Oil, Linen, 24 x 30. I painted this in 2006 for my show at Framing Concepts, "On the Road Again." Recently I was given an elaborate frame and tried it out with this painting in it. It was the first time that I lived wit…
Split Complementaries
Acrylic, Canvas, 36 x 42 x 3/4. This is my largest in the series of stained canvases and my last so far. By this time I had an idea of how much paint it would take and used larger brushes and larger containers to pour t…
Canyon of the Eagles
Acrylic, Panel, 9 x 12
Berry Springs Pond
Oil, Linen, 24 x 30 x 2. Gallery Wrap, painted from photos and the field study ("Pond Reflections") done on location at Berry Springs Park in Georgetown, TX. It's always an experiment, making an image larger, exploring…
Autumn La Luz
Oil, Linen, 24 x 24. This is painted from two watercolor sketches and the memory of shifting light patterns as I painted. I tried taking photos of the light as I formed my concept, but the clouds were drifting faster th…
Rio Abstraction
Acrylic, Canvas, 24 x 30 x 1.25. I began this canvas with random stains on raw canvas. As with the others, I just played with the contrasts of primary colors and tried to create interesting textures. The difference betw…
Lake Travis Clouds
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36. Clouds are a favorite subject of mine, and I watched these form as I painted at Cypress Creek Park on Lake Travis. I like to sketch in watercolor as I can capture a subject quickly. However, nothin…
Sandia Morning
Oil, Linen panel, 8 x 10. Every time I paint the Sandia mountains near Albuquerque, NM the light is different, even if I go back the same time another day. I really liked the feeling of a crisp spring morning in this pa…
Circular Motion
Acrylic, Canvas, 28 x 25 x 1.5. This image is experimental in nature and was my first attempt on a larger scale. The basic idea is to stain raw canvas with pure colors diluted with water . I started with yellow and red,…
Sunrise over Twin Lakes
Oil, Linen panel, 20 x 24. While painting a quick watercolor study of the clouds at sunrise, I watched the shape of the clouds change as the sun gradually illuminated the undersides, creating rim lights at the bottoms.…
McKinney Falls
Oil, Linen panel, 8 x 10. This is the upper falls at McKinney Falls State Park near Austin, TX. It was painted on location in April with minor adjustments in the studio. The water level was low, as we were in the middle…
Lake Study
Gouache, Paper, 6 x 8. The subject is Buttercup Creek as it forms a lake in the newly developed Lakeline Park in Cedar Park, TX. This study for a larger painting is available only as print on demand. Price varies accord…
Rio Grande Runoff
Oil, Linen panel, 12 x 16. Spring Runoff had turned the river red, and I laid in a heavy wash of burnt sienna which seemed to capture the color as well as the sediment. It was painted on location in Corrales, NM on the…
Color Burst
Acrylic, Canvas panel, 24 x 20 x 1.65. This is another image in my experimental series of stained canvases. The basic idea is to stain raw canvas with pure colors diluted with water . I start with the three primaries pl…
Nawadaha Falls - Porcupine Mountains
Oil, Panel, 14 x 18. I started this on location in the upper peninsula of Michigan in a watercolor sketchbook. When we got home I experimented with smaller images and various media, focusing on closeups of the falls. Wh…
Jemez High Country
Oil, 14 x 18. This is one of my favorite spots in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico along the East Fork of the Jemez River. The yellow foreground represents dandelions and the burst of spring. It's easily visible from t…
Sky Eruption
Acrylic, Canvas, 22 x 16 x 1 3/8. I pushed the limits on this canvas, staining in layers until the canvas expanded rather than shrinking as expected. The only way I saved it was to paint out my beautiful stains with acr…
Guadalupe River Reflections
Oil, Linen panel, 12 x 16
Down the Rio Grande
Acrylic, 30 x 40. I love the color of water. "What color is it," you say? It depends on where you are when you're looking, but it's mostly the color of sky. It's a clear liquid like the sky is clear air, we might hope.…
Storm Subdued
Acrylic, Canvas, 24 x 18 x 1 3/8. This image is experimental in nature. The basic idea is to stain raw canvas with pure colors diluted with water . I start with the three primaries plus phthalo green, and then pour them…
Twin Lakes Sunrise
Oil, Linen panel, 11 x 14. I painted this as soon as I got back to the studio after painting a quick watercolor study from life as the sun came up. The clouds were building beautiful shapes, even as I drove to the site,…
Cottonwood on the Rio Grande
Oil, 30 x 30. I painted this before the fires on the Bosque and extra growth and erosion along the river. I have painted here recently, and the view has changed considerably. The small island is overgrown and one can on…
Edges of a Storm
Oil, Panel, 16 x 12. This cloud is typical of the storms we see during the summer. Sometimes they give us violent rain, and other times they simply give us spectacular beauty, holding their shape as the sun goes down.
Distant Turquoise
Acrylic, Canvas panel, 10 x 8 x 7/8. This small image is a segment of my first experiments with staining raw canvas. The basic idea is to stain raw canvas with pure colors diluted with water . I start with the three pri…
Bull Creek Strata
12 x 16
Autumn Corrales Bosque
Oil, Canvas, 30 x 40. This is the largest painting I've painted on location. I spent several days on site at the river's edge selecting and editing shapes and colors. I finished it in the studio where I was no longer di…
Sandia Showers
giclee. Sandia Showers, 24 x 40 giclee on canvas, limited signed edition of 40, $750 unframed. Sandia Showers, 18 x 30 giclee on canvas, limited signed edition of 50, $450 unframed. Sandia Showers, 9 x 15 giclee on pape…
Flaming Sky
Acrylic, Canvas panel, 10 x 8 x 7/8. This small image is a segment of my first experiments with staining raw canvas. I started with the three primaries plus phthalo green, and then poured them on the raw canvas, moved t…
Rio Grande Cottonwood
Oil, Panel, 12 x 12
Cypress Roots
Oil, Linen panel, 8 x 10
Isis Temple
giclee, Canvas, 30 x 40. Isis Temple, 30 x 40 giclee on canvas, limited signed edition of 25, $875 unframedIsis Temple, 18 x 24 giclee on canvas, limited signed edition of 50, $375 unframedIsis Temple, 8 x 10 giclee on…
Tijeras Canyon Autumn
Oil, Panel, 18 x 24
Bull Creek Park
Oil, Linen panel, 12 x 16
Quilted Wildflower Meadow
Acrylic, Panel, 24 x 18. I love playing with color and making color charts. This painting is influenced by some of Paul Klee's work and the many color charts I have painted as well as the wildflowers we see in Texas. I…
Marble Canyon Majesty
giclee. Marble Canyon Majesty, 40 x 40 giclee on canvas, limited signed edition of 25, $1200 unframed. Marble Canyon Majesty, 32 x 32 giclee on canvas, limited signed edition of 50, $850 unframed. Marble Canyon Majesty,…
Saguaro Giants
Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20. There are many of these great stands of giant cactus in Catalina State Park north of Tucson where I found these on a hike some distance from the parking area. I carry a small painting box to captur…
Saguaro Sunrise Tucson Mountains
Oil, Linen panel, 11 x 14. Many of my works are interpretations of watercolor sketches that I have done on location. In this case, we were camped at Gilbert Ray Campground in the Tucson Mountains west of Tucson, Arizona…
Cosmic Blanketflower
Acrylic, Canvas, 24 x 18. I started this painting with splashes of color and gradually formed them into more solid shapes reminiscent of the color charts that I love to make. I drew inspiration from Paul Klee as well as…
Juniper on Mount Bonnell
Oil, linen, 30 x 40. Mount Bonnell, at 780 feet above sea level, is a high point in Austin, TX, overlooking the city and the Colorado River, now Lake Austin. It has been a tourist destination since 1859. I was drawn to…
Rainbow over Pima Canyon
Oil, 20 x 24
Sunflower and Cumulus
Oil, Linen panel, 12 x 9
Pusch Ridge Designs
Oil, Linen panel, 11 x 14. This is a reinterpretation of a plein air painting that I did in 2005. I think it was a decent painting, as literal as I could make it at the time, but when I looked at it recently I felt that…
Pecos River Alcove
Oil, Panel, 30 x 20
Red Sycamores
Oil, Linen panel, 16 x 20
Tucson Mountain Poppies
Oil, Panel, 11 x 14. Poppies and Lupine were abundant this year, and since this doesn't happen every year in the desert, I felt obliged to go out and paint. I worked this up from a watercolor sketch done on location in…
Pecos River Fishing Hole
Oil, Linen, 18 x 14. This light lasted only moments as I painted on site with watercolors. One minute it was all in shadow. The next minute parts were lit up like a stage setting. Shadows drifted in and out, as did the…
Kirwan's Lane - Galway
Oil, Linen panel, 16 x 12. I couldn't resist the complementary colors in this Galway Medieval Street scene! Traces of sunlight rake across the wall, catching a few roses and creating contrast in the bright green storefr…
Lime Creek Pool
Oil, Linen panel, 12 x 16. This creek doesn't flow all year long, so when it does, I love to explore the light and reflections on water. The limestone bank is typical of creeks in this area of Texas, and there is a wond…
Aspen Summer
Oil, Panel, 12 x 9. I love being in the aspen at any time of year, but summer is special when grasses are green and wildflowers pop up at their bases. This painting makes me feel cool on a hot summer day.
Out of the Shadows - revised
oil and cold wax, Panel, 20 x 16. This is an experimental painting using cold wax medium applied with a palette knife. The price is for the unframed painting, 7/8 inch deep on a cradled panel, however it would look quit…
Lime Creek Morning
Oil, Linen panel, 9 x 12
Pusch Ridge Boulders
Oil, 8 x 10
Late Afternoon Canyon de Chelly
Oil, Canvas, 14 x 18. Afternoon light reflects into the same rock pinacle that was obsured in shadows in the Sliding House Ruins Overlook painting.
Out of the Shadows
Oil, Panel, 20 x 16. This is an experimental painting using cold wax medium applied with a palette knife and print brayer. The painting is unframed, 7/8 inch deep on a cradled panel. The subject is based on a view overl…
Lime Creek Reflections
Oil, Panel, 18 x 24. My initial interest in going down to paint this creek was to explore the surface reflections while at the same time exploring the transparency of water and the objects I saw at the bottom. The dappl…
Boquillas Canyon
Oil, 20 x 30. Boquillas Canyon is where the Rio Grande leaves the main part of Big Bend National Park to continue it's flow to the Gulf of Mexico. I hiked a short distance from the parking lot with my watercolors for a…
Textural Effects
Oil, Canvas panel, 14 x 11. I chose this subject so I could play with textural effects of light by using cold wax medium and a palette knife. It's based on a photo of a hillside on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. I h…
Sombrero Peak
Oil, 11 x 14
Cliffs on the Chama
Oil, 20 x 24. When I painted the field study for this one, all of the clouds were building up behind me. The cloud shadows gave my subject more depth, but the sky was blue above the cliffs as high as I could see without…
New Growth Aspen
oil and cold wax, Linen panel, 9 x 12. This is painted in layers, adding cold wax medium to my oils and using a palette knife for most of the application. Some randomness is built in, using a brayer to roll light glazes…
Sand Canyon Layers
Oil, 18 x 24. This area has been a favorite place to explore since my early childhood. I never tire of the layers of colors in the sandstone cliffs of the Southwest.
Bull Creek Morning
Oil, Panel, 18 x 24. I painted a smaller study on location a year ago February, but only focused on a portion of the falls. After my last painting of reflections on a creek surface, I looked through my reference paintin…
Arizona Poppies at Cougar Mountain
Acrylic, 9 x 12. I’ve made three trips out to this area to explore. I determined right away that I wanted to sit on the ground for more of an ant’s eye view. I took pictures from a few inches off the ground, but to pain…
Chinatown Glare
Oil, Linen panel, 9 x 12
Bull Creek Waterfall
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12
Malgosa Crest
Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20. Malgosa Crest is a landmark formation seen from the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park. I painted studies during a rafting trip down the river with 15 other artists. The Crest is the form…
Georgetown Study in Greens
Oil, Linen panel, 11 x 14
Melting Snow
Oil, linen, 12 x 16. It's a rare day in Texas when we get snow. I have fond memories of snow, growing up in Colorado, but living in southern Arizona, and now Texas, I don't often get the chance to paint it from life. Wh…
Two Crows
Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24. I paint from life whenever possible, usually smaller works from 6x8 to 12x16. While I'm painting I have my camera ready for moments like this when wildlife enters my space as if I were only another…
Walk in the Snow
Oil, linen, 12 x 16. It's a rare day that it snows in Texas. None of us really expected that it would come down long enough to build up enough for a snowman, but there it was, and all the kids, and adults who felt like…
Changing Pastures
Oil, Canvas, 20 x 30. I went out to Algodones to paint the color of the cottonwoods when a neighbor decided to move his horses. I couldn't resist the accent notes of horses and rancher, each note different in tone and h…
Bryce Canyon Hoodoos III
Acrylic, Canvas, 20 x 10. Bryce Canyon is unique in many ways. One way that impressed me the first time I explored it was the reflected light that made the sandstone colors glow. This is especially noticeable when one w…
Red Sun
Oil, Panel, 14 x 11. I'm calling this "Red Sun," like I've always called the sandstone in the West "red," even though it's really a red orange on the color spectrum. The colors I used were "earth reds" and a touch of ca…
Waco Silo District
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. Painted on location in Waco, Texas. this area has been made popular by a young couple with a national TV show. You will probably recognize it if you've seen the show or been to Waco.
Fall Cottonwoods on the Santa Cruz
Oil, 9 x 12
Bryce Canyon Hoodoos IV
Acrylic, Canvas, 20 x 10. Bryce Canyon is unique in many ways. One way that impressed me the first time I explored it was the reflected light that made the sandstone colors glow. This is especially noticeable when one w…
Goose Island Marsh
Oil, Linen panel, 12 x 16. It's always different. We saw some beautiful skies, but this time they played second fiddle to the water patterns and the marsh grasses.
Morning Shadows at the Ranch
Oil, 9 x 12
Morning Fog
Oil, Linen panel, 8 x 10
Zion Overlook
Oil, Canvas, 30 x 40. It's a relatively easy hike through the sandstone cliffs and canyons of Zion to get to this overlook. We parked by the tunnel and hiked over the top. It's a breathtaking view where one can look dow…
Lake Travis Jonestown II
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. This is my second studio study after a sketching trip to Lake Travis at Jonestown, TX. I drove out to study the clouds and worked in value markers and watercolor. In the studio I focused on more of a…
Desert Adobe
Oil, 9 x 12
Spanish Skirts at Palo Duro
Oil, Linen panel, 16 x 20. The first time I wanted to paint this the sky was cloudy, and there was no light and shadow. I painted a small study when I got home and only recently decided to add light to it. That inspired…
Brushy Creek Trestle
Oil, Linen panel, 8 x 10
Clouds and Prairie Coneflower
Oil, Panel, 16 x 20. The Prairie Coneflower is a challenge to paint as an element in the landscape. Its detailed pattern is compelling up close. Its staccato rhythm dances across meadows, but rarely creates a mass of co…
Tucson Mountain Blue
Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24. The Tucson Mountains border the western edge of our city and Pima County preserved 20,000 acres in 1928 to maintain the pristine desert views that we enjoy today. In the evening when I painted this…
Storm Beyond Sandia Crest
Oil, Panel, 18 x 24
Red Interior
Oil, Linen panel, 10 x 8
Morning Glare Lake Travis
Oil, linen, 14 x 11
After a Winter Storm
Oil, Linen, 24 x 30
Inks Lake Gneiss
Oil, Linen panel, 9 x 12
Randall Davey House
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12. This Santa Fe artist's home is part of the Randall Davey Audubon Center and Sanctuary on upper Canyon Road. I happened upon a small group of artists painting on the lawn and decided to join them, eve…
Palo Verde Spring
Acrylic, 6 x 8. Any time that I needed a break from the studio, I could step out into my driveway in Tucson and paint this scene. Every day and every hour it was different, not to mention the way it changed throughout t…
Double Arch
Oil, Panel, 16 x 20
Fall Creek Waterfall
Oil, Panel, 12 x 16. A favorite spot on Lake Buchanan, a large lake on the Colorado River in Texas, but only seen by boat. We drove by a sign every time we came to Texas from Arizona for several years that pointed us to…
In the Harbor
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12
Pusch Peak and Saguaro
Oil, Canvas, 20 x 16. I see this mountain from our driveway and paint it on 6 x 8 panels when I need a plein air fix. This time I walked out to the arroyo where I could view it entirely within it's natural habitat, even…
Dry Docked
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12
Spring Creek on Inks Lake
Oil, 9 x 12
Delicate Arch
Oil, 9 x 12. I painted sketches in watercolor during a trip through the canyon country and worked up oils in the studio later. This one of Delicate Arch is one of my favorites.
Palo Verde Spring Wash
Oil, 11 x 14. Every year in the spring, wet or dry, the paloverde burst into bloom. I don't have to travel far to find a good view. Rather than paint them in my driveway, I walk to the wash behind our house where I comp…
Cactus Trail Autumn Colors
Oil, linen, 24 x 30
Wilson Arch
Oil, Linen, 24 x 30. I've driven by Wilson Arch many times on road trips through southeastern Utah. This summer on my way home from Jackson Hole I drove by one more time, admiring the reflected light under the arch. A f…
Across the Rio Grande Gorge
Oil, Panel, 16 x 20. I painted this view on a 6 x 8 panel in August of 2005 and recently decided to work it up larger. It was a dramatic day with clouds and cloud shadows changing the view every few minutes. I originall…
Devine Lake
giclee, Canvas, 12 x 16. The morning was quite foggy when I arrived and gradually cleared as I painted. I like the high key of lighter colors due to the fog. The original sketch is watercolor painted on location on bris…
Setting Sun
Oil, 11 x 14
Cloudy Moon
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12. Clouds in motion hide the moon one moment yet they still illuminate the sky with the translucsent light of the moon. The night seems almost as bright as day, yet the shadows are soft and elusive, and…
Into the Rio Grande Gorge
Oil, Panel, 28 x 22. While I painted a 6 x 8 study from the parking lot above the Rio Grande Gorge bridge, I stopped every so often to investigate the view from the bridge. Every angle and every moment exhibited differe…
Sunset at Quimper
Oil, 24 x 18. Quimper is in Brittany, in the northwest part of France. I painted a small watercolor study while standing on the hillside above town watching the sun set.
Bull Creek Spring
Oil, Panel, 16 x 20
Weeping Willow
Oil, Linen panel, 11 x 14
Mountain Lake
Oil, Canvas, 20 x 30. I love the vistas from the alpine tundra one finds high in the Rockies. This lake can be seen from the road to Rollins Pass near Winter Park, Colorado. I painted it twice from life before tackling…
Nawadaha Falls
Acrylic, Paper, 6 x 8. I painted a quick study in watercolor and wanted to paint it larger. This is an intermediate study to decide how I wanted to crop the falls. Nawadaha Falls is in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in…
Light on Red Oaks
Oil, Panel, 11 x 14. Fall comes late in the southern states. I experienced it in Tucson and now in Austin. This was about the last day I could get out and paint before we lost most of the leaves. It was the first of Dec…
Summer Monsoon
Oil, linen, 30 x 40. Earlier in the day this cloud shape might portend heavy winds and showers of a monsoon summer, but in the evening it yields only one shaft of rain and a gentle spectrum of colors.
Lime Creek Snow
Gouache, Paper, 5 x 7. I keep a few sketchbooks going at the same time, so I can work on two images at once without flipping the pages. This is a small book designed for multi-media, but I've been working mostly in wate…
Brushy Creek Juniper
Oil, Panel, 24 x 18. I discovered this Juniper in February when the deciduous trees and vines were dormant. It was a cloudy day, and I painted a small watercolor study on paper, determined to come back later when the su…
Clouds over Tumacacori Mountains
Oil, 16 x 20. Based on a smaller field study, this painting gave me the opportunity to emphasize the clouds and cloud shadows across the tops of the mountains and the dramatic light across the desert landscape.
Deep Shadows
Gouache, Paper, 8 x 10. I keep a few sketchbooks going at the same time, so I can work on two images at once without flipping the pages. This is a small book designed for multi-media, but I've been working mostly in wat…
Cypress Creek Color Splash
Oil, Panel, 30 x 36. I don't know how many creeks in Texas carry this name, but it's a good one for any creek rimmed with these stately trees. When I painted the study for this, it was the splash of color across the cre…
Painted Desert
Oil, 14 x 18. Painted Desert formations occur throughout the west, not only in The Painted Desert of Arizona. It consists of multicolored layers of badlands, and the patterns of erosion are particularly difficult or ted…
Sunrise Vermilion Cliffs
Oil, Canvas, 30 x 40. Our favorite place to visit for many years was Lee's Ferry on the Colorado River near the Marble Canyon bridge. We always camped there and rose with the morning sun. One year I stayed with other ar…
Brushy Creek
Oil, Panel, 16 x 20. Lingering color of fall left on an overhanging branch of a dominant tree inspired this painting. I painted a watercolor study first, and then the next day a small oil. Each day more leaves fell into…
Mont St Michel
Watercolor, Paper, 6 x 9
Guadalupe Valley
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12. Morning light grazes edges of sandstone cliffs as it makes its way to valley fields and foreground rocks. Light rims the edges of trees, typical of backlight as you look into the sun. The red cliffs…
Cliffs at Etretat
Watercolor, Paper, 6 x 9
Bluebonnets near the Quarry
Oil, Panel, 14 x 18. This scene is taken from the top of Wire Road with a little bit of imaginative editing. If you have ever been to Texas you have to love bluebonnets. I thought that I wouldn't need to paint them sinc…
Washhouses at Vannes
Watercolor, Paper, 6 x 9
Cliffs near San Ysidro
Oil, Canvas, 15 x 30. I have always been drawn to the rainbow colors of earth strata wherever I find them. These cliffs near San Ysidro, just north of Albuquerque, have always been a favorite subject for me. This time,…
Old Bridge on Lime Creek
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10
Notre Dame Paris_
Watercolor, Paper, 6 x 9
Chama River Shadows
Oil, 14 x 18. I started this from life, painting with my good friend Roger some time ago. I finished it in the studio from slides, before we had digital. Even with digital images that can almost make me feel like I'm lo…
Summer Clouds and Oaks
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10
Rio Grande Willows
Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20. Sometimes we have snow in March, sometimes we don't, but the winter willows are always a remarkable variety of reds--red orange all the way through the spectrum to red violet. This is as close to t…
Algodones Spring
Watercolor, 10 x 14
Deep Shadows - Grand Canyon
oil and cold wax, Linen panel, 18 x 14. A 6 x 8 study on location and a week of camping on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon inspired this painting. The time is early morning, looking at cliffs near the campground and a…
Linda Vista Colors
Watercolor, 5 x 7
Park Point at Mesa Verde
Oil, linen, 24 x 48. Mesa Verde was practically in my backyard when I was growing up. It was visible from nearly everywhere in the Montezuma Valley, and I spent two summers working on road and trail crews during my year…
Texas Wildflowers
11 x 14. Indian blanket flowers and the purple Gayfeather grow taller and cover up the bluebonnets that have gone to seed. They are also called Firewheels as there are several species of Gaillardia in our meadows and al…
Bluebonnets on the Fence Line
Oil, 12 x 9
Petroglyphs at Rinconada Mesa
Oil, 18 x 24. Petroglyphs are fascinating to me on many levels, but here I'm interested in the contrast of the graphic symbolic image with the traditional illusionistic rendering of space and light. I find more than one…
On the Llano River
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12
Sandia Summer Cloud
Oil, 30 x 24
Three Sisters 1, Monument Valley
Acrylic, 11 x 14
Cloudy Morning on the Llano
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12
Spring Green
Acrylic, 6 x 8
Three Sisters 2, Monument Valley
Acrylic, 11 x 14
Storm Coming-Vermilion Cliffs
Oil, Canvas, 30 x 30. The colors within the Vermilion Cliffs are much more varied than mere vermilion, a reddish orange. They also contain every earth pigment one can find in artist’s colors, as well as the occasional g…
Evening Reflections
Oil, 11 x 14. This creek in our neighborhood only runs after a rain, so I rush up the street to see it every time the rain stops. This time the evening sky was glowing yellow and the creek reflected it nicely.
Three Apples
Acrylic, Panel, 8 x 10. There's no better way to see the light than to paint outside. I set this up outdoors when we lived in Tucson, just to explore the light and the medium of acrylic, for a change from painting the l…
Three Sisters-Monument Valley
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36. The light changes dramatically on a day like this. Cloud shapes change. Cloud shadows change. Light bounces around everywhere, one moment reflecting back into cliff shadows, the next moment turning…
Mirrored Sunflowers
Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20. It's rare that I paint anything close up like a still life, but it's really good discipline, and I don't worry about the changing light. This one was fun because the strongest light came from behin…
View from the Granaries
Oil, Canvas, 28 x 22. Colorado river runners often stop to camp on the shores below, one of the few areas that can accommodate more than one campsite. The extra time rewards all who seek unique views like this one above…
Field of Blue
Oil, Panel, 16 x 12. This painting was one of my first after experimenting with oil and cold wax medium. I wanted to keep the impression of a field of blue wildflowers without painting each individual flower. The sky an…
Lime Creek Hillside
Oil, 16 x 20. This rural area is only two miles from our home in Cedar Park. I was inspired by the changing colors of Red Oak, but the free range chickens seem to belong, and by contrast, became the new focal point.
Havasu Falls
30 x 24
Meadow in May
Oil, Canvas, 40 x 30. I looked out over a field of coneflower, Indian blanket and gayfeather, and started snapping photos, some vertical, some horizontal. I walked into the field, around the field, and even set up my eq…
Yampa River Sunrise
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36. I had not seen much of the Yampa on my drive into Steamboat Springs from the west, until I came upon this small rise above the river at sunrise. There it was in all its glory inviting one to find a…
Creek on Post Oak
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. I painted my first work after my move to Texas here by the mail boxes on our street. I used watercolor and painted it quickly because I'm not used to the heat and humidity. This was June. Then I pain…
Lifting Storm Clouds - Sprague Lake
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 30. One summer I spent a week painting in Rocky Mountain National Park. Each day I painted small works in oil, and when I got home, I used some of them as reference for larger paintings. This one is fr…
Lower Hondo Valley
Oil, Canvas, 22 x 28. North of Taos, New Mexico, one can drive up or down the Hondo Valley. Driving down the valley towards the Rio Grande, I found this view overlooking the valley from a hilltop. Cumulus clouds built u…
Graysill Mountain Road
Oil, Panel, 6 x 10. Graysill Mountain is near the headwaters of the Dolores River in Southwest Colorado. One year some time ago, I painted all around this area on location and tried painting this in a realistic style, b…
Llano Wildflowers
Oil, 11 x 14. The Indian Blanketflower were really profuse this year all over the Hill Country. We planted them when we lived in New Mexico and always liked them. I found these on the roadside during one of our many tri…
Santa Rita Cactus
Oil, 8 x 10. I start this kind of painting with a loosely constructed grid and begin making shapes that quickly become symbols for landscape elements I love. Sometimes I start with a specific image like this cactus flow…
Tesuque Autumn
Acrylic, 18 x 24
Cactus Moonset
Oil, 11 x 14. I've painted several pairs of abstract images like this one. I could easily paint more of them, but feel compelled after a while to return to my established traditional style. These are like therapy for me…
Last Light on Zoroaster 40x40
Oil, Linen, 40 x 40. Periodically I look through old sketchbooks and find ideas unresolved. I had even stretched a large canvas for this sketch. Notes on my sketch indicated that I had explored this idea after a visit t…
Turquoise Sky 2007
Oil, Panel, 12 x 12. This is the sort of image that comes out of my head when I just start painting shapes and colors. It's based on my memories of growing up in the southwest where mesas dominate the landscape. Other a…
Turquoise Moonrise 2008
Oil, Panel, 11 x 14. I started this painting with the idea of turquoise, the color and the stone. The step designs always remind me of mesas where turquoise was a major trade item, and I just started building shapes and…
Sabino Sycamore
Oil, linen, 24 x 36. The light on the Sycamore against spring morning shadows catches my eye. The color in the major trunks is strong and powerful, but the lacy quality of the smaller branches and the grace notes of lea…
South Peak-Sandia Crest
16 x 20. It’s hard not to think of flying when you’re at the top of this mountain. It’s a bird’s eye view. The challenge for me is to complement the distance with just the right amount of foreground.
Edges of a Storm
Oil, Linen panel, 16 x 12. I did this painting when we lived in Tucson. I've always been drawn to skies and clouds, and this has been in my personal collection as a reminder of the beauty of clouds.
Winterfat and Barberry
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12. I didn't notice the bushes surrounding the juniper until they started changing color and I saw the berries on them. The winterfat surrounding them is a nice color note in contrast to the golden grass…
Wildflowers at Pine Flats
Oil, Canvas panel, 8 x 10. I usually look for broader views, but these wildflowers really caught the light, and my attention, set against the dark shadows of juniper behind them.
Caprock Canyon
Oil, 9 x 12. Caprock Canyon located along the eastern edge of the Llano Estacado is approximately 100 miles southeast of Amarillo,Texas. It is similar in geology to Palo Duro Canyon to the north and reminds me of the fo…
Chiricahua Sentinel
Acrylic, Panel, 12 x 16. As fascinating and unique these formations in Chiricahua National Monument can be, I find them quite difficult to paint. When photographed, every strange shape seems to jump out and assault the…
Desert Sunset
Oil, 9 x 12
Canyon Juniper
Oil, Canvas, 30 x 30. I painted a smaller study on location north of Sedona, Arizona some time ago. This is a studio painting where I could focus attention on the sunlight striking the dead branches. I always felt that…
Monument Canyon
Oil, Canvas, 30 x 40. We rode horseback down Monument Canyon to reach this spectacular view of Spider Rock in the upper reaches of Canyon De Chelly on the Navajo reservation in northeastern Arizona. I painted it without…
Monument Valley Butte
Oil, Panel, 12 x 16. Painted after a field study several years ago, this one includes the entire butte at sunrise when the colors are intensely red orange. When I was growing up in the four corners area of Colorado, we…
Lighthouse at Palo Duro
Oil, Linen panel, 11 x 14. On a March day in 2014 the temperature was 86 degrees, quite warm considering that it had frozen the water hoses to our camping trailer. Nevertheless I hiked the 2.2 miles out with backpack an…
Adobe on Campbell Ditch
Oil, Linen panel, 8 x 10. I painted several of this subject along the ditch bank near my home in the North Valley of Albuquerque. Each one was slightly different as I set up in different places trying to find the best p…
Festival Tents
Oil, Canvas panel, 8 x 10. I painted this last summer during the Lavender Festival in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque. There were lots of people moving through my field of vision, so I used a palette knife and simple brushst…
Sunflowers at Sunrise
Oil, Canvas panel, 10 x 8. I had been watching and photographing the sunrises for days when I finally decided to go out and paint it from life. It's always a challenge as the colors change so quickly, but these were goo…
Laguna Pueblo
Oil, Panel, 16 x 28. Years ago on a painting trip west of Albuquerque, I stopped at the rest stop overlooking Laguna Pueblo and dashed out a quick sketch in ink and watercolor. Back in the studio I started this painting…
Cannon Beach
Oil, 9 x 12
Summer Clouds
Oil, Linen panel, 12 x 16
Sunset Bay
Oil, 9 x 12
Fresh Snow - Oak Creek
8 x 10. Red Cliffs of Oak Creek Canyon near Sedona, Arizona contrast nicely with fresh snow. I painted it loosely, trying to catch the essence of the scene.
Ruby Beach, WA
Oil, 11 x 14
Jemez Ponderosa
Oil, Canvas panel, 10 x 8. I painted this while waiting for the moonrise. I had hoped to make color notes of the sky as the moon came over the mountain, but even though I finished this at the time of the moonrise, it di…
Snow in Oak Creek Canyon
Oil, Linen panel, 14 x 11
The Survivor
Oil, Panel, 14 x 18. Painted on location some time in the 1990's, this cottonwood survived the lack of water when the alfalfa fields were abandoned, but it did not survive the construction of new homes on the west side…
North Valley Adobe
Oil, Panel, 14 x 18. When I started painting "Plein Air," I really just went outside to study painting from life. We called them field studies then, because they were often used in the studio for larger paintings. When…
North Valley Abode
Oil, Linen panel, 12 x 16. I have been exploring my new neighborhood in the North Valley of Albuquerque, NM and found this great cottonwood and older adobe abode within walking distance of my home. I went out several da…
La Cueva Boulders
Oil, Canvas panel, 8 x 10. I have been exploring the many places that I used to paint in Albuquerque since returning here this spring. La Cueva picnic area was built by the WPA and has always been one of my favorite are…
Morning on the Rio Grande
Oil, Linen panel, 8 x 10. I painted this on a recent trip to New Mexico from Coronado Campground in Bernalillo. I had painted here when it was open to the public many years ago without restrictions, and it was good to b…
San Raphael Valley
Oil, Linen panel, 11 x 14
Hillside from Dinan
Watercolor, Paper, 6 x 9. This is one of the watercolors that I did on our trip to France in 2003. It is available as a print on demand.
Margerie Glacier
Oil, Linen panel, 12 x 16
Fishing Wharf at Icy Straits
Oil, Linen panel, 9 x 12
Aspen and Needle Mountains
Oil, Linen panel, 12 x 16. I've driven this road many times in my lifetime, making it one of our fall color drives for years as I was growing up and even after we moved to Albuquerque. It's much farther from Texas, but…
Jemez Falls
Oil, Linen, 28 x 22. Spring runoff in the Jemez can be quite spectacular if there has been enough snow during the winter months. Sometimes there is very little, and the river is quite small. Some might even prefer to ca…
Across Trout Lake
Oil, Panel, 12 x 16. Growing up near here in Southwestern Colorado, I've found the view hypnotic and rarely fail to stop for pictures when I drive by. The lighting is always different, and I've painted several interpret…
Wilson Mesa
Oil, Panel, 12 x 24. When I started the original field study for this in 1985, I was torn between the beauty of the storm, the beauty of the meadows, and the beauty of the wildflowers, Indian Paintbrush, yellow daisies…
Mountain Storms
Oil, Panel, 12 x 16. I started this painting on location in 1985, worked on it a little when I got back to the studio, and then shelved it for all these years. I can still feel the emotion of the work from that time, bu…
Port Orford
Oil, 9 x 12
Moran Point Evening
Oil, Panel, 12 x 16
Canyon Shadows
Oil, Panel, 16 x 12. The Kaibab Limestone that is so prominent in the foreground is fun to contrast with the blue shadows across the canyon. The Grand Canyon is always inspiring.
Low Tide at St Malo
Watercolor, Paper, 6 x 9
High Tide at St Malo
Watercolor, Paper, 6 x 9
Sand Canyon
Oil, Panel, 12 x 16
Castle Rock at Sand Canyon
Oil, Linen panel, 12 x 16. Like many of my subjects, I painted this first in watercolor on location. It was a warm day in the high 80's, so I stayed in the shadow of a large rock which limited my perspective somewhat. I…
Cave Creek Sycamore
Oil, Panel, 28 x 22. I painted this in the studio after a camping trip to Arizona. My reference was a small watercolor sketch and photos I took while spending the day at Sunny Flats Campground on Cave Creek in the Chiri…
North Rim Grand Canyon
Oil, Linen, 30 x 40 x 2. North Rim view of the Grand Canyon near the campground. My first view of the Grand Canyon was from the campground with my family when I was a child. Years later, I have painted the canyon from m…
Quimper
Watercolor, Paper, 9 x 6
Looking through Desert Chaos
Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24. The glow of morning sunlight silhouetting this solitary cactus in the was near our house called out to me day after day until I could no longer resist an attempt at capturing it on canvas. I set up…
Lupine and Distant Peak
Oil, 12 x 16
Colorado Monument
Oil, 16 x 20. Along the Rim Drive in Colorado National Monument, I watched the cloud shadows move until this formation was lit up more than the rest. I love painting this subject matter, having spent my younger years in…
Canyonlands Overlook
Oil, Panel, 12 x 16. Not far from the visitor center in Canyonlands National Park we find the Shafer Canyon Overlook. One can look down at the winding jeep road miners built during the uranium boom. As fascinating as th…
Ancient Layers
Oil, Canvas panel, 12 x 16. It's hard not to stop at the rest stop here on I-40 near the AZ/NM border. I've traveled both directions many times, and never had time to stop and paint, but I've taken lots of pictures and…
Palo Verde Wash
Oil, Linen panel, 11 x 14
Spring Storm on Picacho
Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24. I've looked at this painting for a few years now in my studio and recently decided it needed more drama, so I painted this storm over the cliffs on the left to push them back and contrast with the…
Madera Canyon Waterfall
Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20
Waterfall Study #2 -8x6oil
Oil, Canvas panel, 8 x 6
High Country Waterfall
Oil, Canvas, 18 x 24
Pusch Ridge Morning
12 x 16
Linda Vista Cliffs
Oil, 11 x 14
Colorado Red
Oil, 14 x 18. Looking down the Colorado River near the confluence of the Little Colorado, the river runs red, like it used to, this time from a recent storm. A group of us painted for several days at this site. This is…
Sabino Gneiss
Acrylic, Panel, 8 x 10. This painting was done on location in Sabino Canyon, Tucson, Arizona.
Granite Mountain Morning
Oil, Canvas panel, 12 x 16. We lived in Prescott, AZ years ago, and I painted this mountain numerous times, but never this exact view. On a recent trip to visit friends in the area, we camped in the forest and woke up t…
Red Canyon Evening
Oil, 9 x 12
Aspen Morning
12 x 16. The bright colors of autumn along this creek on the Camp Bird Road out of Ouray, Colorado are nearly overwhelming. They are the colors I remember from my youth, and the colors we look forward to each year. Like…
Catalina Vista
9 x 12
San Juan Morning
Oil, Panel, 12 x 16. My last three paintings have focused on water. I'm learning more about how to paint it, and this painting is a revision of one I painted several years ago. I thought I could express myself by painti…
Cottonwood Creek
Oil, Panel, 14 x 11. Painting in the Tetons I'm almost always drawn to the mountains, but after painting them day after day one summer it felt good to sit by the creek and just study the water. Looking past small bushes…
Aspen Autumn
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. Painted on location in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Through the Window at Big Bend
Oil, 16 x 20. While waiting for the sun to set, I busied myself sketching a painting a small watercolor of gray skies and neutral tints in the desert foreground. As the light changed I jumped up to take pictures, clearl…
Santa Elena Canyon
Acrylic, 11 x 14
Prickly Pear Blooms
Oil, 12 x 16
Fisher Towers
Oil, 11 x 14
Monument Valley
Oil, 12 x 16. I stopped to paint here last summer because my friends were set up painting here, and it was in the shade on a hot summer day! There are so many great views in Monument Valley that it's hard to decide wher…
Santa Elena Trail
Oil, 12 x 9. I painted this from a pencil sketch done on the trail up Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park this spring. I was testing my memory and experimenting with textures.
Ranchos de Taos Church
Oil, Panel, 12 x 16. Throughout the years I have been drawn to paint historic New Mexico churches and missions. Because this one has been painted so often by so many others, I had avoided it until recently, but finally…
Bryce Canyon Reflections
Oil, linen, 18 x 12. This is an earlier work from 1996 after visiting Bryce National Park and hiking the trails through the hoodoos. I was fascinated with the power of reflected light in the narrow passages and wanted t…
Casa Rondena Winery
Oil, 12 x 9
Salt River Glow
Oil, Panel, 30 x 30. I never failed to stop at this spot on the many trips through Salt River Canyon on my way from Tucson to Colorado or New Mexico, yet I never had time to paint as the drive took most of the day. Ther…
Salt River Shadows
Oil, Panel, 14 x 11. There is one overlook with lots of parking at the top of the road through Salt River Canyon in Arizona where I always stop to take pictures, but I've made the trip so many times that I looked for ot…
Aspen on Camp Bird Road II
Acrylic, Linen panel, 11 x 14. This is the second interpretation of this scene that I painted from a watercolor sketch and photos. Each time I tried to capture the essence of being there as well as the essence of the wa…
Aspen on Camp Bird Road III
Acrylic, Linen panel, 11 x 14
Aspen on Camp Bird Road I
Acrylic, Linen panel, 11 x 14
Sheep Wagon
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. Until quite recently this type of wagon was the summer home for sheep herders in the high country of the Rocky Mountains. Sheep grazing permits are not longer issued in our National Forests, so this…
Summer Fireweed
Oil, 11 x 14
Aspen Summer
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 18. Summer days among the aspen provoke fond memories. The deep blue shadow of the hillside across the valley sets off the aspen white in shadow like a jewel. The late afternoon sunlight filters throug…
Alberta Falls
Oil, 11 x 14
Red Canyon Morning
Oil, 12 x 18
Morning Light, Canyon del Muerto
14 x 18
On the Ute Trail
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 24. Modern roads often follow older paths of the native populations that blazed the trails initially. Trail Ridge Road in Colorado is one of the highest paved roads. Here it crosses the old Ute Trail a…
Field of Lupine
Oil, 11 x 14. The Lupine are beautiful in season. In Texas, our season is generally in April, and the particular species along the roadsides has white tops that make them distinctive. I've painted lupine in Colorado lik…
Merced River Yosemite
Oil, Panel, 10 x 8. This painting was done in the studio from an original watercolor done on location in Yosemite National Park.
Half Dome Yosemite
Oil, Panel, 10 x 8. This painting was done in the studio from an original watercolor done on location at Yosemite National Park.
Monument Valley Mitten
Oil, 11 x 14
String Lake Outlet
Oil, 14 x 11. I started this from life in 2013 at Grand Teton National Park. I was challenged by the log dams as the lake turned back into a stream. I've edited it several times since then and recently decided that I ha…
Four Corners Mesa
Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 16. This painting is acrylic on paper, a mix of transparent and opaque techniques. The mesas are near the New Mexico--Colorado border in the Four Corners area, the place I still call home. This p…
Lake Louise
Oil, 16 x 20
Logan Pass
Oil, 9 x 12
Grand Teton at Potholes
Oil, 11 x 14
Mount Moran Sunrise
Oil, 9 x 12
Sunlight on the Chama
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. This painting is a part of the Chama River in northern New Mexico between Ghost Ranch and the Monastery of the Desert.
Rio Grande near Pilar
Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20. There are several places along the Rio Grande on the way to Taos where one can pull over for fishing access or simply to watch the kayaks and rafts navigate the rapids. Or one can stop and paint! I…
Gates of Ladore
Oil, 16 x 20
Mount Princeton (From the Old Midland Line)
Oil, 22 x 28. I started looking for the Old Midland Line when I saw paintings by Charles Partridge Adams who painted along the narrow guage railroad lines in 1900, the same way we are inclined to paint along the highway…
Mount Princeton across the Valley
Oil, 11 x 14. Inspired by Charles Partridge Adams, who traveled by rail and painted Colorado at the turn of the twentieth century, I made numerous trips along the old Midland Railroad trail until I finally caught the ev…
Sabino Autumn
Oil, 8 x 10
Boca Negra Canyon & Sandias
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12
Plateau Point
Oil, 16 x 20. This is the same view that I painted years ago after one of my first visits to the Grand Canyon. Who could resist the idea of following that trail out to the end of Plateau Point? My first attempt at paint…
Lower Falls of the Yellowstone
Oil, 9 x 12
Yellowstone Falls
Oil, 20 x 16
Desert Patterns
Oil, Panel, 6 x 8. This desert view from Tohono Chul Park in Tucson has lots of texture and native cactus, thorny mesquite. and paloverde. I chose to focus on the patterns of color and atmosphere. Perhaps one day I will…
Signal Mountain Marina
Oil, 9 x 12. This was my last painting before the show at Grand Teton National Park the weekend of July 14 & 15, 2012. It was a beautiful day and a wonderful week of painting. It was fun learning the anatomy of a mounta…
Taggert Lake
Oil, 9 x 12
Red Lady in Fog
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. This painting was done near the ski resort in Crested Butte, Colorado.
Abyss Pool
Oil, 9 x 12. It's hard to drive through Yellowstone National Park without stopping to see the many pools of thermal waters. The colors are jewel like and fun to capture in paint.
Summer Aspen
Oil, 11 x 14
Lake McDonald
Oil, 9 x 12
Teton Aspen
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. This painting was done on location in Grand Teton National Park.
Snake River Overlook
Oil, 12 x 16
Gorge Lakes
Oil, Canvas, 32 x 48. Early morning light rakes across the ridge line at Rocky Mountain National Park. One has to look twice to see the sequence of lakes hidden among the shadows.
Long lake
Oil, Canvas, 30 x 40. When I painted the field study I only saw moments of sunlight on the near grasses and trees while the mountain seemed to hold the sun. Every time I looked up from my palette I saw variation of gray…
Horseshoe Park Ponderosa
Oil, 12 x 16
Mount Princeton
Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20. It’s always a challenge in summer to find color to contrast with the dominance of greens. The mountain above timberline glimmers almost as if it were still covered with snow. Atmospheric perspectiv…
The Crested Butte 8x10
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. This painting was done on location outside of Crested Butte, Colorado.
Yampa River Reflections
Oil, 12 x 16
Cold Spring Ranch
Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. We talked to the rancher that owned this place as he was cutting grass with a Swiss army knife to feed the cow and calf he had just corralled. He told us that he, like most people who settled in th…
Washington Rain Forest
Oil, Panel, 10 x 8. This painting was done from an original watercolor done on location near Olympic National Park.
Grand Teton Lake Jackson
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. This painting was done on location in Grand Teton National Park.
Jackson Lake and Grand Teton
Oil, 9 x 12
Teton and Cottonwood
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. This painting was done on location at Grand Teton National Park.
Ranchers' Dream
Oil, Panel, 11 x 14. Partly cloudy skies with little chance of rain promise a good harvest and nutritious winter feed for livestock. It leaves the mind free for other daydreams as well.
Haybale One
Oil, 9 x 12
Church at Golden
Oil, 11 x 14
Willows and Wildflowers
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. Painted on location in the area of Winter Park, Colorado.
Mount Moran from String Lake
Oil, 11 x 14
Summer Clouds
Oil, Panel, 6 x 8
Morning Light
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. I painted this for a quick draw event in Pagosa Springs, Colorado a few years back. I stood on a pedestrian foot bridge along with several other painters, all focused on their own visions. My idea wa…
Horseshoe Park
Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. This painting was done in the studio from a This painting was done on location in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Zion West Temple
Oil, 9 x 12. Zion National Park in southwestern Utah offers nearly unlimited subject matter with many memorable landmark formations. I'm always drawn to this one near the visitor center, and I eventually want to paint a…
Sandia Shield Summer Solstice
Oil, 9 x 12
Zoroaster-Snow on the Rim
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36. I started painting the Grand Canyon in 1984 after we moved to Prescott, Arizona, only a few hours away from the South Rim. It requires a lot of study, of geology as well as color and value control,…
Isis Temple
Oil, Canvas, 30 x 40. Often the south rim views of the Grand Canyon are obscured by trees or protected by pipe rails and chain link fencing along the precarious cliff edges. It's great to get such a view with an expanse…
Ventana Arch
Oil, Linen panel, 11 x 14. I painted this in the studio from a field study. The location is in New Mexico, south of Grants on the edge of the El Malpais National Monument. The Official name is La Ventana Natural Arch an…
Arizona Ash
Oil, Panel, 14 x 11. This is a plein air piece I painted in Catalina State Park near Tucson. This native deciduous tree is a welcome contrast to the thorny and prickly natives that are most prominent in the Sonoran dese…
Edge of Aspen
Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14
New Mexico Homestead
Oil, 18 x 24. I’ve driven by this homestead for more than 40 years and have seen remarkably little change. I’ve stopped to take pictures but never felt comfortable with a visual idea that I thought could carry the image…
Morning Light at North Canyon
Oil, Panel, 11 x 14. When I paint on site I often find it difficult to focus on one idea with the light changing all around me. The reflected light on cliffs around the bend of the Colorado River in Marble Canyon glowed…
White House Ruins
Oil, Canvas, 40 x 50. Resisting the temptation to photograph this scene at Canyon de Chelly one winter morning, I set up the easel to paint, capturing colors on a 9 x 12 panel that my camera did not. Even in winter the…
Navajo Fortress Winter
Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14
Totem Pole at Monument Valley
Oil, Canvas, 11 x 14. I sat under an umbrella to paint this. The sun was nearly unbearable. I finished at high noon, and the temperature read 102 degrees fahrenheit, but the painting is a more reliable record of my expe…
West Temple at Zion
6 x 8
Three Sisters
Oil, 9 x 12
Chisos Basin
Acrylic, Panel, 6 x 8
Cedar Grove Storm
Oil, Panel, 9 x 12. Those distant mountains always look blue as long as there is scattered blue light somewhere in the atmosphere. I made them my focal point in this painting in contrast to the warm yellows and gray ski…
Noon Cumulus
Oil, Panel, 11 x 14. I got a lot of mileage out of this view near Cedar Grove, north of Edgewood, NM where I’ve been teaching workshops several times a year. The light changes all day long and the color changes with the…
New Mexico Cloud
Oil, Canvas, 24 x 36. This is the largest painting I did this year on this theme, and I did it using only two colors plus white. The tube colors used are Ultramarine Blue and Raw Sienna. I premixed eight colors from tho…
Midland Station
Oil, 11 x 14. This is painted from the site of the old Midland Station on the Colorado Midland Railroad just up on the hill above Buena Vista, Colorado. I was inspired to look for the site when I saw a painting of Mount…
Steamboat Lake study
Oil, Panel, 6 x 8
Steamboat Lake
Oil, Canvas, 12 x 16. It always surprises me how red the grasses look when they have gone to seed and the light is behind them. The grasses are still dried yellow, and I see hints of green among them, but the seed heads…
Rio Grande at Las Cruces
6 x 8. The morning sunlight was quite dramatic until I set up to paint. Since I was stressing different kinds of light to my workshop students, I chose to paint this in the diffused light of a cloudy sky. I will paint i…
Piedra Cottonwoods
Oil, 9 x 12
Light Rain
Oil, Panel, 6 x 8
Storm Coming
16 x 8. This is the same painting posted with my August 2011 newsletter (see link to past issues on the email newsletter page). The subject was backlit with a storm threatening from the other side of the mountain. I cou…
Alpine Glow
Oil, Panel, 18 x 14
Rabbit Ears Peak
Oil, 30 x 40
Aspen Horseshoe Park
Oil, 9 x 12
Lupine and Distant Peak
Oil, 12 x 16
Sliding House Ruins Overlook
Oil, Canvas, 30 x 48. This view from the south rim of Canyon de Chelly looks west in the early morning light of summer.
Navajo Fortress Spring
Oil, Panel, 12 x 16
County Road 50
Oil, Panel, 12 x 16