Cottonwood, October 17, Abiquiu

This seems a good one! The wind like on the beach and plenty of sand in the painting and everything else to prove it. 

So before I get started in the Studio again--

I have in mind a few more paintings.

Out on the Ghost Ranch painting with a group of people from Teluride CO that have been coming down here each year for this astounding moment of crystalline clarity and color-- I mean the sun is so intense and I have a sunburned face to prove it.

O'Keffee's Ranch House

That windy today!

One of those days when one feels as if one has been on a boat all day-- fighting the wind, the intense sun and-- well ready to go to bed at 8:00!

2012 Landscapes and Titles

1. Vermont Leaves, 24 x 30", o/c, 2012

2. Vermont Leaves, 20 x 28", o/c, 2012

3. Dead Creek Reserve, Vergennes,  Vermont, 24 x 30", o/c, 2012

4. Grayton Beach, FL, 20 x 28", o/c, 2012

6. Grayton Beach, FL, 24 x 48", o/c, 2012

5. Dunes at Grayton Beach, FL, 16 x 24", o/c, 2012

8. Gulf at Padre Island, 16 x 24", o/c, 2012

7. Dunes at Padre Island, 16 x 24", o/c, 2012

9. Ocotillo at Big Bend , 24 x 48", o/c, 2012

10. Big Bend , Rio Grande view, 24 x 32", o/c, 2012

Big Bend National Park

I went back to the first place I painted here probably 15 years ago. I sold it and I missed the image, and wanted to make another. This  I'm not sure what you call it, not really a mesa-- but like it's cowboy hat shape.


Well, I was painting here and kept hearing bells. It turned out the Rio Grande was just behind a hill behind me, and the horse was in Mexico. The thought of a horse in Mexico made me want to paint the already amazing blue walls of the Rio Grande basin behind it.

As I painted the beach I realized there were foot prints into the water-- I remembered that in Abiquiu they shot a scene in All the Pretty Horses, at Trujillos Hill which I've painted many times. They were supposed to be crossing into Mexico-- in reality Abiquiu.


So here I am painting the same Rio Grande-- the Chama River in Abiquiu flows directly into it, a continuation of that painting 500 miles away on the Mexican Border.

I guess I like how reality and myth are mixed.

Padre Island, TX

After the Rain, Grayton Beach, Florida, 2012

I usually see something and saying Wow, I'm painting it.

This was waiting for two days and it never really happened again-- though something else I didn't expect did--

A new motif it seems.

Grayton Beach, Florida, 2012

Priming some canvases, that never dry in the rain --

I had another canvas to use.

Love the stuff I see as I sit still out here.

A good start I thought.

Then the pouring rain for two days--

Second Round, Off again to New Mexico

This is a odd trip, most of these trips have started in the spring and relating to the starting off motif of the arriving spring.

Today is the first or second day of Autumn and I take off for the South. Most of the metaphors are wrong, and the one of the Fall I hope not to apply.

I have in the past noticed that the metaphors, Like starting off in Spring, added a certain content.

I am visiting a number of Museums where paintings of mine have been donated recently.

The Federal Reserve in Washington, DC., the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC,  the Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christie, Tx, and may be if time allows I'll visit San Antonio once again.

I'm also painting, Along the Road and trying to get all this information together for once, with the idea of making some kind of series and book (?) hopefully unfolding.

Big Bend National Park, end of May 2012

Painting Louisiana

24 x 32"

How I transport paintings. Use 1/2 " staples and cardboard.

This Heron came by maybe upset by the alligator?

Saw this guy as I painted.

Lake Martin near Layfayette, LA