Vermont

This post is out of order, the original date is Sept 16, 2012. This experience inspired painting down the rest of the East coast-- painting green, green-green.

I was fresh from painting out West. I usually lose my enthusiasm for painting in the East as it is so familiar and where I am from. All of a sudden I gained the interest and carried it through to Pennsylvania, where I was born, and then continued into North Carolina where I'd painted in Asheville. I all of a sudden had an enthusiasm for all this green. This was all on my way to New Mexico. 

I've been calling it the Southern Route.

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.