Merry Christmas!

I realise the holiday's are quickly behind us, but I want to say how productive I've been this christmas with paintings, many of them were shipped away wet and didn't have time to get photo's of them so I wasn't able to post here or will not be able to show, unfortunate, cause I believe they were some of the best paintings I've done, of course, lol.

But, if all reality I've had a great holiday season, with painting, family and a lot of great holiday food around, WOW makes one really appreciate what they have and how lucky I am to be here!! Here are a few painting's i've had time to take photo's of and post. Happy New Year!!

It's been a long time!

Hey ya'll,
It's been far too long since updating the blog, i believe too long, I always tell myself to be more consistant with it, but what it boils down to is me and the loss of time, or in need of better time managment. Yeah i think that's it, better time management. Anyway, with out further excuses here's a few paintings that have been done over the past, what, month and half! wow, gone by so fast!

The wind is blowing autumn away!!

Autumn Passing
8 x 10
Oil on linen

Desperate to paint today cause it's been far too long since painting plein air and this being the best time of year to get out there and enjoy the nice weather. I've been looking for this type of scene here. I just knew it existed, but didn't know how or where to find it. So had to do some exploring to get to it. Then i found one of my fav new scenes!
enjoy!

Togwotee Pass Last light

Today, going from a photo i took about a year ago, which i try to shy away from painting from photos, but i made a small study of this peice to get my comp and color ideas down before attempting a bigger painting.

Northfork Aspens

I've been awaiting patiently for the aspens along the northfork to reach their peak for color. I almost caught it just right, but i'm off by a couple of days. I think a couple more days to go to reach their peaks, but i've got to work the next couple and will probably miss it so i thought to get what i could down and let bigons be bigons.

Northfork Aspens
8 x 10
Oil on linen

Starburst

Fall is in full swing here in Park County. The views up the Northfork are truely unbelievable. If any of you folks living in park county haven't been up the northfork i suggest you head up there for some really incredible color. With the temps hovering above the mid 60's it makes it pretty much perfect for painting.

I got started a little later than i wanted to. Not having painted lately i've been naieve to just how quickly the sun sets this time of year. It used to be you could go out at 4 and still have enough time to be lazy and find a scene and set up and drink a cup of jo and then settle into a painting, well now, it's rush rush at 4, so tomarrow i will be setting out early after we put the kids n school and then head up there to catch some good scenes for the day. So without further passing I did squeeze in one painting, although about half of it was finished up here at the house tonight, but it's still a painting.

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