100 Garden & Floral Oil Paintings, Original Artwork by a Colorado Daily Painter, 37/100

Steady As A Rock
8" x 8" oil on cradled panel
$195.00 + $10. s/h

This rock is much lighter in color than yesterday's.  It was picked up from a different area.

100 Garden & Floral Oil Paintings, Original Artwork by a Colorado Daily Painter, 36/100

Rock Garden
8" x 8" oil on cradled panel
$195.00 + $10. s/h

We literally have hundreds of rocks sitting in the back yard under a tree waiting to be used in our garden.  This one caught my eye as it had so many colors as well as moss.  

Monument Valley Sky Hole

5" x 7" oil on gessoed masonite

$100.00 + $10. s/h

please contact me if interested

The natural forces of wind, rain and temperature have spent the last 50 million years cutting and peeling away the surfaces of the Monument Valley plateau.  These forces have created incredible geologic formations.  There were several of these sky holes in the valley.  They seemed like such a great painting. I've painted canyon walls, canyon vistas, small rocks, and now sky holes.  Am I painting the sky holes or the canyon wall very close up?

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

6" x 6" oil on panel
nfs

This is my last rock piece for the time being. I'll come back to these again as they are such great color/value/edge studies.
Yesterday I was trying to come up with another "rock" title for my piece, so I Googled "songs with rock in the title". (I know, how do I have time for that in this busy season!) I couldn't believe how many sites came up. My favorite site was "Songs with rock in the title that don't rock!" And, Jingle Bell Rock was in that list!
Both our kids are due home today. It'll be great to have them here for awhile.
I want to wish all my blogging friends a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday. Thanks for all your support, comments, and friendship this past year.

Jingle Bell Rock

6" x 6" oil on panel
nfs

OK, I know this doesn't look like a jingle bell, but it has tints and shades of red and green. And, it is another Christmas song with the word rock in the title!

Frog Rock

6" x 6" oil on panel
nfs

I think that this rock looks a little bit like a frog. He seems ready to jump off the table. It is truly amazing the different values and colors of rocks. There are as many, if not more, than there are rocks. Then, there is temperature difference. I could repaint all of these changing the background cloth from warm to cool, and cool to warm. There are never endless exercises to be done and paintings to be painted.

Rock-in' Around the Clock

6" x 6" oil on panel
nfs

This was the only holiday song I could think of with "rock" in it.
I've been painting a lot of canyons, rock walls, rocky mountains and rocky cliffs lately. I paint what I see. I've also been thinking about value a lot. So, this led me to want to concentrate really closely on rocky values. Which led me to paint rock close-ups. All of these rocks are about fist or whole hand size. I've done four so far. They're together below. I'll post one each day. They've been fun to paint. Sort of a color study of rocks instead of boxes.