Spring Blossoms

Spring Blossoms
plein air oil  9" x 12"
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I'm lucky to live in such a beautiful place!  Every where you look is another painting.  Our house sits next to Bear Creek Park, an almost 700 acre county park.  If you looked about 50 yards to the right of this tree you'd see our house.  So, one nice morning a few weeks ago I went practically right outside our door for this painting.

As artists do, I left out what was not necessary (I guess that's what's called artistic license).  In this case a straight cement sidewalk.  At first I changed it to a meandering crushed stone path.  But, that too got removed.  It wasn't need and was distracting.

Late Snow

Late Snow
6" x 6"  Oil
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It's snowing and windy and we're expected to have several inches of snow by morning.  This is springtime in the Rockies!  Now that I have this posted, I think I may go back and remove the row of evergreens in the background.  

If you think about Edgar Payne's compositions, I would call this a diagonal L.

I'm in a group show at Summerland Gardens, 124 East Cheyenne Road, Colorado Springs 80906.  The opening is this Friday, April 8th from 5- 7.  Please stop by that evening or any time soon.

100 Garden & Floral Oil Paintings, Original Art Work from A Colorado Daily Painter, 6/100

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Since we continue to have nights below freezing  (the weatherman says tonight is the last one!) I keep bringing my pansies in every night.  They are a hardy flower, but I don't want them to have a difficult beginning.  I'll plant them in a few days.  In the meantime, there's more for me to paint!

I've just taken several of my florals to Summerland Gardens.  They're in a new location with lots of room for more flowers as well as a great area to display and sell garden art and paintings.  I'm excited to work with them.

100 Garden Oil Paintings, Original Art Work from A Colorado Daily Painter, 4/100

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Yesterday was a warm, beautiful Colorado spring day, the kind that make you want to get out and garden.  But, it's still too early to plant at this altitude.  Tonight is supposed to be only 28 degrees!  Anyway, I spent part of yesterday preparing the vegetable beds. While turning over the soil I noticed the colors and shadow of the shovel.  A garden painting!

100 Garden Oil Paintings, Original Art Work from A Colorado Daily Painter, 3/100

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Today about half the daffodils in our yard are opened and the rest are opening.  It happens pretty quickly.  Daffodils are a great flower for Colorado.  They're hardy in the cold and heat, although there's more cold than heat here in the spring.  They turn to face the sun, so it's as if they're looking around all day.  There are more than 1500 varieties! These must be a hybrid daffodil.  I got out my flower book and these are not yellow trumpets, the most popular; nor are they short or large cupped.  When we built our gardens and planted them years ago, it didn't occur to me to pay attention to what kind of daffodil they were.  Does anyone know?

Spring Pansies

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Pansies are one flower that thrives in Colorado in the spring.  They survive the freezing nights, the unwanted snow,  and look happy and cheerful no matter the weather.  Another great thing about spring is that my plein air group, Garden Artists, starts up again.  Yesterday we painted at Summerland Gardens. It was a beautiful, sunny April morning.  These pansies, in their little plastic containers, caught my eye.  I loved how the shadows on the gravel complemented the flowers.

Piedra River

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This is the third plein air piece I did on the same Durango morning.  I moved to a spot on the Piedra River where I had little bits of occasional sun, but mostly cool and cloudy.  When the light changes, the decision has to be made to make the piece a little sunnier, or a little cloudier.  It's easy to put in both, but the light won't read correctly. This painting was done from about 9 - 10 am.  By 10:15 we had loaded up the car, were headed out, and it started to snow.  That's April weather for you!

Yellow Jacket Barn

6" x 6" oil on panel
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We just got back from a trip to Durango, Co. to visit our son.  Every time we've driven down there, I've looked at this barn and thought it would make a great painting.  This trip I had the opportunity!

My husband and son decided they were going to learn about wild turkeys.  So, after studying wild turkeys on the internet, they decided to go looking for them.  Turkeys come out at sunrise, so we were up before the crack of dawn and driving away!  Little did I know that the "spot" was right by this barn, near the town of Yellow Jacket.  So, while they were off in the woods, I set up across a field from this barn.  Yellow Jacket is not really a town, it's one empty building, but, there is a town sign by the side of the road.  I hope to do a large piece from this study.

While much of the rest of the country is having a warm spring, it was a very cool morning.  I was out here about 7 and it was barely 40.  I was painting in my winter jacket and hat.

To get to Durango, you have to drive over Wolf Creek Pass.  Thought I'd include pictures of the pass this week!