Creek Thaw

Creek Thaw
9" x 12"
Oil / Canvas

Break in the Snow

Break In The Snow
Oil / Canvas
10" x 14"

Melting Ice

Melting Ice
Oil / Canvas
12" x 12"

Snowy Creek Plein Air

Snowy Creek
9" x 12"
Oil / Canvas


This is one from yesterday, done on location. I walked out to the spot, got set up, and found out that I had forgotten my brushes! However, I had my trusty palette knife. So I decided to paint it all with a palette knife.

Setting Sun

Setting Sun
Oil / Canvas
26" x 14"


Decided to return to a batch of photos and paint this scene that I've had in the back of my head to paint. In this painting I learned that I could gray down my yellow without it going to green with the pile of left over white that I mixed together from a previous painting. The gray was about the same value of the yellow and it was warm so it didn't cool down the yellow to much. I've been getting in the habit of keeping piles of grays on my palette. They are really great harmonizers.

Light on Cascade Falls

Light On Cascade Falls
8" by 10" Oil

Been Practicing painting water falls lately. This is a new one I did of the cascade falls nearby where I live.

Colorado Plein Air Paintings

Edge of Shadow 8x10 oil



Summer Solstice 8x10 oil



Reaching 8x10 oil



Mountain Country 8x10 oil



Canyon Shapes 8x 10 oil



Above Green Fields 8x10 oil

New Plein AIr Paintings

Since I moved to my new home in Salida I've been painting Plein Air every morning.
Below is some of what I've been working on...



Window to the Falls - 6 x 8

Tree Blossoms - 6 x 12

River Greens - 8 x 10

Rocky Mountain Farm - 8 x 10

Mountain View - 8 x 10

Forest Expressions - 6 x 8

Earth and Stone - 14 x 18

Down it Comes - 6 x 8

Creek Timber - 8 x 10

Creek Flow - 6 x 9

Chalk Cliff Morning - 8 x 10

Boulder and Aspens - 8 x 10

Aspen Grove - 8 x 10

Arkansas River Summer - 14 x 18

Agnes Vaille Falls - 11 x 14

Arkansas River

Arkansas River
Oil 6" x 8"

A little study I did recently. I'm thinking of making a larger one of this...

Light on Clear Creek

Light On Clear Creek
Oil 24" by 30"