Snowed In, 5x7, Acrylic/Board

Bale stacks at the I-Bar ranch in Gunnison. There is a hay shed there where I saw the greatest John Denver tribute concert ever. This is on the daily dog-walk route out to a meandering stretch of Tomichi Creek...not bad for a 15 minute walk.

Mill Study, Autumn

5"x7", Acrylic/Board

SOLD

to a collector in Columbia, MO

Irwin Summer

5"x7", Acrylic/Board
SOLD

Ruby Range Slope

5"x7", Acrylic/Board

SOLD

to a collector in Columbia, MO

Placid

8"x6", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

Layers, 7x5, Acrylic/Board

Ovation, 5x7, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

This isn't my best painting, but I think it's my best title yet. Surely trees clap their limbs and leaves together for the cloud show each evening. Why not? If only they could hold lighters.

Strata

7"x5", Acrylic/Board

SOLD

to a collector in San Antonio, TX

Spring Dreams

6"x8", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

This is near my favorite napping spot on Hinkle Hill.

SOLD

to a collector in Providence, RI

Carbon Creek Scree Field, 7x5, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

The shoulders of Carbon Peak sloping into its namesake creek.

SOLD

to a collector in Crested Butte, CO

Paradise Divide, 5x7, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

Paradise Divide seen from the upper lower loop trail.

Elevation, 5x7, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

The West Elks from above Lake Irwin.

Scattered, 5x7, Acrylic/Board

The Ruby Range, above Lake Irwin.

West Elk Autumn, 5x7, Acrylic/Board

A view of the Castles from the flanks of Ohio Pass.

Thaw, 8x8, Acrylic/Canvas

Maxwell Lake

7"x5", Acrylic/Board

Shadow's Edge, 5x7, Acrylic/Board

Upstream, 5x7, Acrylic/Board

This is the Taylor breaking free from this winter's record snowfall. I'm feeling this one out for a larger canvas.

SOLD

Palisades #4

5"x7", Acrylic/Gessoed hardboard
West Elk Breccia being cut by the Gunnison River.

SOLD

to the permanent collection at Western State College of Colorado

Nu Art and Nimbus

8"x6", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

A bruise-colored sky over Moscow's Main Street.

The Shoulder Season, 6x6, A/C

I've painted a ton of autumn scenes over the years, but they have always been aspen groves or riparian cottonwoods. I like these dark, bare trunks because they are unobscured by form-masking foliage. I've always liked the Klimt-esque feeling of a bare forest. This was fun.

                                                                            SOLD

September

24" x 36", Acrylic/Canvas

Studio Light

6"x8", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

$35 + $8 U.S. shipping

Towards Pullman

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

Contrails and utility poles doing their best to frame the setting sun.

SOLD

Brush Creek Cattle

6"x8", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

Lowline Trail

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

SOLD

to a collector in Weston, FL

Morning Virga

12"x16", Acrylic/Canvas

Shafts of Light, 6x6, A/C

It amazes me that this happens every day. It amazes me more that i don't make a point of watching every single one of them from start to finish.

Procession, 5x7, Acrylic/Canvas

Here are some nonsensical, rambling journal notes that a younger version of myself wrote while leaning on this very tree...

...and the sky blue sky hides every shade of yellow, and there is red in the leaves that are every green ever grown, and the growing green grasses hide their orange bellies from the violet eyes of apricot sunsets...and even the empty air flutters like butterfly wings...

and it goes on and on. Maybe I lean on trees too much.
But I don't think so.

Aspen Road

6"x8", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

One of the old timber tracks on the flanks of the West Elks, gradually being consumed by the aspen grove.

SOLD

to a collector in Crested Butte, CO

Winter Palisades

7"x5", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

SOLD

to a collector in Columbia, MO

Liquid Glass

7"x5", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

The clear waters of the Central Rockies.

Gray Day

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

Cloud shadows surfing over the West Elks.

Mass

8"x6", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

The hulking mass of the Sawatch Range after an early storm. The deep valleys are like wells of blue ink, filling and darkening as the afternoon progresses.

Columns

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

October snow near Pass Creek

SOLD

Aspens and Willows

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

High Pine

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

Just below timberline in the Ruby Range.

SOLD
to a collector in Crested Butte, CO

Palouse Evening #4

6"x6", Acrylic/Board
Evening east of Moscow.