Another Slocan Lake painting

                                               
                                                In the Beginning, Slocan Lake, oil 30x40 2017

South of Bluff Utah

                                       South of Bluff, Utah, 18x24 oil on canvas, Jan. 29 2015 (unfinished)

My studio, with a painting in progress. 
 

                                                                        

                                                                         

Monument Valley Still

                        Composition 3, Monument Valley Utah, 18x24 oil on canvas, Jan 28 2015

 

 

Last Grand Canyon Oil Sketch

                      Grand Canyon Arizona, composition 3, 14x18 in. oil on canvas, Jan 24 2015


I am thinking a painter could spend the rest of their life here and never scratch it a bit.
I saw a plein air show at the Kolb Gallery in the village, some most excellent pieces by some accomplished and inspiring artists, https://www.grandcanyon.org/7th-annual-grand-canyon-celebration-art, a nice lady who worked at the gallery told me that many of the painters showed up a few weeks before the actual event, and I thought to myself "I would too", or else this complex landscape could easily overwhelm.
I am now in Monument Valley, Utah, the place where lots of old western movies where filmed back in the day. Huge rock spires and miles of open rolling desert. Tomorrow, I guess I know what I'm doing!

Windless Day Painting in the Desert outside Cottonwood Arizona

Windless Day north of Cottonwood

22x30 oil on canvas Jan 4 2015

 

Another fab day of painting, the snow is melting fast and Javelinas have invaded the trailer park!

 

 

Cannon Beach Arts Festival "Dueling Easels" at Dragonfire Gallery Nov. 11 2014

Kind of a cool event, two artists switching off on each others canvases every half hour for a two hour period, then the finished paintings, each with both artists signatures, are auctioned off for charity.
One piece fetched $800, the other $1000.

My first view of the Pacific, a place called South Beach, Wa., on a beautiful day. I am now at Cannon Beach Or., it is raining so hard I may just get washed away. It is really scenic here, and I am biting at the bit to get painting. The forecast says it will start to improve on Wed., so until then I am going to work on a commissioned painting inside the trailer.