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Breath of Gold  (Plein Air)

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I was at a little open space area by the Highline Canal this weekend and painted this plein air view to the west across the canal. Many of the leaves are gone now, but this stand of trees still had a breath of gold dancing throughout the trunks... 

Willow Glow  (Plein Air)

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This is another plein air painting done at Bible Park in Denver. The snow we had a couple weeks ago happened while the leaves were still on the trees, so much of the color was lost and many leaves just turned a light yellowy tan. In contrast to that was a row of willows, their branches still holding a reddish grey color. Subtle splendor...

Bible Park Cottonwood  (Plein Air)

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I was at Bible Park the other day. Named for James A. Bible, a 50 year employee of Denver Parks and Rec. The north side is a typical city park with mown grass and ball fields, of which Denver has many. But here on the south end it is untamed and natural with Goldsmith Gulch and the Highline Canal running through. I grew up around cottonwoods and are attracted to their presence. They typically grow around water. In the fall after the yellow of the leaves has turned to a light brown, the leaves tend to hang on for a while and when they are rustled by the wind, it almost sounds like applause...

Wash Park Fauve

(Click to Bid  –  6x12  Acrylic on canvas board)

My latest studio landscape is a bit of a high key colorist piece. It is of Washington Park in Denver. The view is looking west toward South Lake on a sunny day. I pushed the colors chroma, and made them very intense, as the Colorado sun can be. The title refers to the Fauvist painting movement that began around 1904, which included the likes of Henri Matisse, Andre Derain and even Georges Braque, who later became Picasso's partner in Cubism. The movement was characterized by energetic brushwork, jarring colors for the time, and a simplified, abstracted subject matter. At the Salon d'Autome of 1905 in Paris, the critic Louis Vauxcelles disparaged the painters as fauves, wild beasts, thus giving their movement the name by which it became known, Fauvism.

The Bike Picture

SOLD  –  9x12   Acrylic on canvas mounted on board

This painting, also know as Long Legged Woman has sold. I was downtown by MCAD, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, when I came upon this scene. It brought back memories of my first bike, which was a red one-speed, that we got from a Firestone Tire store on West 44th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, which amazingly is still there! It wasn't until I finished the piece that I came up with the title, when I realized the distance between the seat and the frame is sadly, much greater than my own...