Rocky Mountain PBS

So a couple weeks ago I got a call from our local PBS station. They have a feature called "Western Bounty" where they interview Colorado artists; apparently it runs several ...

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The Four Directions

This is a new work titled "The Four Directions," part of the traffic series I've been working on. I like the formal elements of this composition as well as the ...

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The Marina at Stillwater

Hello there: here are a couple of pics from my new work titled "Stillwater." In retrospect as I title this blog posting, "Marina at Stillwater" would have been a better ...

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More Water

This is a new watercolor, titled at least for now "December, Eagle County." I started this piece as a demo painting for my watercolor class at the Western Colorado Center ...

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Shameless Self Promotion

So here is cute little old me teaching my watercolor class at The Art Center. This class has been a lot of fun so far; we've been looking at a ...

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Hiawatha

And finally we have some new work posted. This is "Hiawatha;" the subject matter is a big old grain warehouse on Hiawatha Ave in Minneapolis MN. Some of these images ...

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Other Stuff I Do

Okay, in addition to the artwork and teaching art one of my many hobbies is agility training which I do with Millie, our Rat Terrier Extraordinaire. I have yet ...

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New Encaustics

Two new encaustic paintings: these are exciting to me as they are the first pieces I have finished successfully using this new-to-me media. The black & white is titled ...

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Phase 4

The next step: I have finished filling out the main forms of the piece. Right now it has a lot going on; I need to think about it for ...

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Phase 3

So now we're starting to get somewhere! Here I'm starting to flesh out the rest of the painting. I'm still underpainting this image, trying to build it up ...

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Phase 2

Okay, here's the second major step in the art piece. The initial layout has a lot going on: lots of lines and grid marks. I decided to lay in the ...

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