This is by no means a complete gallery of everything. I'm not even sure I have photos of all the pieces I've done recently, and they're all gone from me so if I didn't get a photo I likely never will. *sigh*
I'm also working on some of the Cedar Shake pieces (cedar shingles from a 100 year old house that's getting new shingles at long last). And have on my agenda to do Ranch Landscapes from down here in the Lower Arkansas River Valley of Colorado - mostly south of town, on the other side of the Purgatory River but also some from north of town and maybe some from along the old highway that goes past Bent's Old Fort.
None of these photos are particularly all that great, but you might get the general idea ... and I had to resize most of the photos to upload them, so ... ALSO, I have no idea why that one aspen painting is out of alignment. I tried four time to make it get into line but - some paintings just have minds of their own. Actually I think ALL paintings have minds of their own, at least all of mine seem to as they generally flat refuse to become what *I* intended for them to be.
This first one is literally one of the first of the aspen paintings I did clear back whenever it was. I set up a hinged set of window screens (the old-fashioned kind, about five feet by almost three feet) in a trifold and started painting one big expanse of aspen, acrylic on fabric. the smaller piece here (lower right) is one of the white on textured white Study In White pieces.
This is the sidewalk sign for a fantastic shop in Cripple Creek Colorado where a few of my pieces hang now and then. It's an adventure every time you visit the place with a wider variety of stuff from all over than you'd expect!
Here's one of the pieces I've been working on this December of 2018. It's 54" x 32" or some such, so a fairly big piece. I wanted the sky to peek through the foliage so did an underlay of cobalt; same for the darker bottom part. Do NOT ask my why I didn't join the sky and the earth - instead, I left a wide strip of plain fabric between them, so when viewed from behind or back-lit it looks a mite odd. As experiments go, this one turned out okay anyhow. Even so ... what was I Thinking? In my own defense, this December has been spent recovering from some rather extensive adjustments to my upper jaw done late in November - that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Here's one from even further back than the first of the aspen pieces. It's pencil on fabric with black acrylic surround.
This is a quick little piece I call Aspen Alone. It's acrylic, but the sky part is diluted to make it water-color.
I like doing these colors. Here I've followed my general rule of 'working my way forward'. The sky goes in first, then the furthest back bits, and just work forward from far away to near, putting the closer layers on top of the further back ones.
This is another of the fairly big pieces I've been working on this month.This one has a white base coat, aspens done first, sky filled in, lower part added.
Here is Phantom Queen in progress. It's still 'in progress' even as we speak although on it's way to the buyer, a little further along than this with more layering and some of the lower part done.
Here's the piece with the sun behind it. It's the third of the fairly big pieces all on the same theme of cobalt sky, bright fall aspen ... The point behind this one is to be able to backlight it. Kind of. I have plans for that whole back-lighting thing, yep. Since I can't keep a secret to save my life, it involves muslin and translucents.
Here's a relatively little simple white over blue. Looks a bit chilly to me.
Here it is, caught in the colors of a prism reflecting sunlight onto it. Can I recreate this look with some light touches of pastels? I could try, and I likely will, but not on this piece as I no longer have it.
This is one of the two pieces that went into the Victor Colorado Plein Air event over Labor Day Weekend, and never came back out. That's good news as it means it got sold there. It's white over textured black and measures just about two feet by three feet. It's called Moonlit Phantom and was done on site down Phantom Canyon which heads south and down from Victor toward Canyon City in Colorado USA. I got the texturing and black done by daylight while I could actually see it clearly, waited until about one in the morning for the moon to rise to be sure it was going to look the way I remember seeing it a thousand times by moonlight, and of course it did. But it was an Event so I had to be sure. Got the white and a touch of silver in place that night, then headed out for sunrise partway down Gold Camp Road. The aspen leaves are 'fingerprints' of actual aspen leaves coated with white and pressed onto the black to make the image in paint.
Here's an unfinished piece from down Gold Camp the following morning.
A Study In White in progress.
Another Study In White. This one I believe went to the Cheshire Cat and have no idea where it went to from there.
Here's the other piece, Study In White, that went into the Victor Plein Air Event and never came back out. The photos you see here are the only ones I have of these two pieces. Had to talk my way into the closing of the Event when everyone's pieces were retrieved in order to get the photos. It was my only chance as I wasn't retrieving anything.
Here's another one that went to the Cheshire Cat in Cripple Creek. The owner made me fill in the moon and lighten the whole thing up some as she thought it too dark. The clouds are white soft pastel. This is another from the Moonlit Phantom series, white over textured black.
