Happy Halloween!
Breath of Gold  (Plein Air)

(Click to Bid  –  8x10 Acrylic on Canvas Board)

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)

( Click to Bid  –   5x7   Acrylic on Board )

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)

Click here to bid – 6x8  Acrylic on Canvas board

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... 

Happy National Coffee Day!

In honor of the day, I wanted to let you all know I have an exhibit up at one of my favorite coffee places. Quince Essential is in a cool old house built in 1893. I'm showing both abstract and representational work, from small to medium in size. I'm sharing the show with Sarah Margaret Wade, who is an art therapist and a recent transplant from Alabama.  

Stop in, have a cup and enjoy the art.

Quince Essential Coffee House

September 23rd – December 31st, 2018 (or there abouts)

1447 Quince Street (1 block east of Quebec, South of Colfax)

Denver, CO 80220

303-955-2479

Hours: M-F 6:30am-6pm,  Sat & Sun 8am-6pm,  First Saturdays 8am-9pm

Live, Love, Laugh and be Happy

Sold - 11x14 - Acrylic on Board

This is the commission I had from the couple who saw me working on a small plein air piece in BelMar Park, Lakewood, Colorado. It is basically a larger version of the original, with the finishing touches supervised by them. The title of the work comes from a song her father used to sing: When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along), written by Harry Woods in 1926, with Al Jolson recording the most popular version...

When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob Bobbin' Along 
When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin' along, along 
There'll be no more sobbin' when he starts throbbin' his old sweet song 

Wake up, wake up you sleepy head 
Get up, get out of your bed 
Cheer up, cheer up the sun is red 
Live, love, laugh and be happy 

What if I were blue, 
Now I'm walking through, 
Walking through the fields of flowers 
Rain may glisten but still I listen for hours and hours 

I'm just a kid again doing what I did again, singing a song 
When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin' along 
When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin' 
When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbin' along 

There'll be no more sobbin' when he starts throbbin' 
There'll be no more sobbin' when he starts a throbbin' his old sweet song