Wednesday, October 17, 2012

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. 




Tuesday, October 16, 2012

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!


Thursday, October 11, 2012

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


Monday, October 8, 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.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

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--