Tuesday, August 19, 2008

KM2196 Ocotillo

















I discovered I have a whole bunch of 4x6" linen canvas mounted boards that I am doing to do some little studies on. Here is my first of my favorite desert flower... the Ocotillo.

6"x4" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Sunday, August 17, 2008

KM2195 Early Evening Stroll


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Here is another painting done from photos found during the clean-up of my flooded basement last week. This was taken in Florence, Italy on the street leading to Ponte Vechio. The sun was just setting leaving a colorful sunset glow on the buildings just under the archway! It was like magic being there.

7"x5" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Thursday, August 14, 2008

KM2193 Willows in Fall

















Last week we had a torrential rainfall at my house here in Denver, flooding the basement. While cleaning up the mess I came across a boxful of photographs.....something out of the past!!!! Anyway, I got really excited about my find and a change from the digital I ususally work with. I loved this piece from Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. It brings back fond memories of several trips there as well as a fun subject I forgot I had to paint!

6"x6" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

KM2192 Jubilance
















I find poppies everywhere I go. My favorite times to travel and photograph are in the spring and fall when the poppies are lighting up the landscape in spring and the aspen are aglow in yellows, oranges and reds. Obviously, I never get tired of painting these incredible subjects.

7"x5" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Sunday, August 10, 2008

KM2190 Blooming Ever Brilliant

















Here is another beautiful little scene found on my recent trip to Crested Butte. This was on a hike outside the little town of Gothic. The Indian Paintbrush are such intense, rich, red flowers and these were enhanced more sitting next to the white trunk of the Aspen tree. I may do this one large as well.
7"x5" unframed original oil on linen
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Friday, August 8, 2008

KM2189 The Road Less Travelled
















I am always drawn to roads and paths and the mystery of what lies beyond. Here is a road that I was following in search of wildflowers but this scene was to beautiful to pass up with the greenery in the front and the road leading one off to wherever the imagination wants to go.

5"x7" unframed original oil on linen
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

KM2185 Alive with Vibrance
















Once again, a trip back to the Poppy Garden. They are fun to explore in between all the other subjects that I love to paint. These are from an incredible garden found on Queen Anne's Hill in Seattle, Washington where gardens grow in wild abundance with all the moisture we don't see here in Colorado.

7"x5" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Monday, August 4, 2008

KM2192 Blue Dream of Sky
















Back to another scene from Crested Butte here in Colorado. It is the wildflower capital of Colorado and what a feast it has been each time I have been there in the height of the bloom. In this painting I was entranced by the blue Colorado sky, the white Aspen trees and the intense purple Lupine.
Between my trip there this summer and several summer's ago I could paint something every day of that area for the next few years! I haven't even sorted out all of this year's photos. The digital camera is blessing but dangerous in my hands as I tend to shoot everything I see!!!

7"x5" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Friday, August 1, 2008

KM2184 Country Laundry



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I seem to be time traveling, for now I am back in England, in the Cotswolds. My friend Pat introduced me to the little village of Chipping Campden where she and I stayed a few days several years back. The town is absolutely charming and we loved wandering into the countryside as well. In wandering the outskirts of the village I found this nostalgic scene of laundry drying on the line. Why is European laundry so romantic?

5"x7" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

KM2183 Amber Skies



















Had to take a break from the Colorado wildflowers and Crested Butte and journey back to Italy for awhile. This scene was a late afternoon, early evening outside of Assisi, Italy while visiting a few years back. The late day light is so magical and that is my favorite time of day as the world seems to settle into a quiet time where one can hear their thoughts that get lost in the flurry of the day!

6"x6" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Sunday, July 27, 2008

KM2182 Watchful Eye

















While driving some of the rugged passes outside of Lake City, Colorado we came across an entire flock of sheep, high on the mountainside, still green making for lush grazing. This little guy had a watchful eye on me and my camera!

6"x6" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Saturday, July 26, 2008

KM2180 Poetry in Purple


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This scene caused me to come to a screeching halt while driving to Crested Butte as the red and blue violet colors in the flowers were so intense against the blue, blue mountains in the background. Luckily for me and the other drivers there was place to pull off the highway so we could record it in photographs to be interpreted here on canvas!!!!

5"x7" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Thursday, July 24, 2008

KM2179 Infinite Skies

















This scene was found along the highway in to Crested Butte. I love Colorado's deep, rich blue skies especially when contrasted with the bright cumulus clouds. I am always in awe of being in such incredible beauty. Painting that feeling is a real challenge.

7"x5" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

KM2178 Late Day Glow


















Here is the first of many to come from an incredible trip to Crested Butte, Colorado, the wildflower capital. It was awesome - the flowers the weather the photography. This scene was found late one afternoon right on the outskirts of town, just walking distance from our motel. We stayed until we had no more camera batteries or sunlight. It was magical to sit on a hill and watch the sun set glowing different colors on the hills that were rich with Paintbrush, sage and other flowers.

5"x7" oil on linen, unframed
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Monday, July 21, 2008

KM2063 Utterly Simple


















I found this gem of a floral scene on a walk while in Greece. The background was as warm as the flowers making it a challenge to make the flowers come forward and remain the main focal point of the painting. It was fun experimenting with color and brush strokes.

6"x6" original oil painting unframed on gessoed board
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Sunday, July 20, 2008

KM2177 En Bruges


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This painting was inspired from a visit to Bruges, Belgium when I was fortunate to be there in the fall when the colors in the ivy covered buildings reflected so colorfully in the canals. It was magic!

7"x5" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

KM2171 Late Day View

















I am currently in Crested Butte, Colorado photographing the most incredible wildflowers to paint upon returning home.
Today I leave for Lake City to find more awesome scenery and flowers. What a grand state Colorado is.
Meanwhile, here is a scene from last summer's trip to Montana where the beauty was vast skies and late summer scenes.

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Monday, July 14, 2008

KM2175 Booker and Jack



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This is a commission done for a good friend of her wonderful Whippets Jack and Booker, an incredible pair of loving doggies who give credence the saying "man's (woman's) best friend"


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Saturday, July 12, 2008

KM 2172 Alive with Color


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Here is an exquisite garden that was found right here in Denver, Colorado. It is one of the most exciting spring gardens that I have seen in many years as it is so wild and colorful with such a beautiful array of spring flowers. I have done many paintings from this one as it had so many compositions to choose from.

5"x7" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Thursday, July 10, 2008

KM2174 Late Day in July
















Here is another Colorado scene from our high country. This was outside of Crested Butte up one of the high passes there a few summers ago. I'll be there next week looking for new reference during the wildflower bloom. Can't wait to see what is in store for this year.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

KM2170 The Yearling

















While visiting the Garden of the Gods here in Colorado this little yearling ambered by while I was photographing the beautiful rock formations that are what make up much of Colorado. Of course he caught my attention and the viewfinder of the camera making another great subject to paint. How I love the deer, so gentle and graceful.

10"x8" framed original oil on Linen
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

KM2169 High Country Colors


















This is a painting inspired from a photo taken in the high country in the Colorado Mountains. Next week I will be in Crested Butte and Lake City in search of meadows and hillsides filled with our wonderful wildflowers so be prepared to for many more.

7"x5" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Sunday, July 6, 2008

KM2168 Spring Brilliance

















I am continually drawn to closeup views of flowers. Viewing only the individual flower makes it special and such an amazing journey into nature's wonders. This one was brand new and freshly popped out of its pod!

7"x5" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

KM2167 Brilliant Garden



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What a brilliant sight this garden was. I found it a few summers ago while venturing around the town of Telluride, Colorado. This beautiful mountain town had so many incredible scenes, not only in town with the blooming flowers but surrounding town are high mountains with Aspen trees, Columbine and Indian Paintbrush. Those are still to come.

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

KM2059 Guard Dog

















This little guy was guarding his path in a small village in Provence. It is a challenge to photograph the dogs I find along my travels as they aren't impressed with my invitation for them to pose. Being such a fanatic dog and cat lover, I never pass up a chance to photograph them and hopefully get a chance to paint them. Doing these small studies gives me that chance.

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Sunday, June 29, 2008

KM2165 Watching all the People






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This little dog was perched on his step in Saint-Paul de Vence in Provence France. I am always drawn to the little dogs in Europe and love how they are part of everyone's lives. This fellow seemed to enjoy the people watching seemingly wondering what all of us tourists were so intrigued about!

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Friday, June 27, 2008

KM2164 Morning Shadows

















I am always drawn to paths, roads and stairs leading me to somewhere. This is an ancient stairway found in Italy on one my trips to Tuscany. I love the mystery of what my lie just beyond. The light was so atmospheric the way it lit the steps in the early morning.


7"x5" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

KM2163 The Fawn


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This little fawn was one of several found in Glacier National Park in Waterton, Canada.
I was with my good friend Pat with whom I do most of my traveling and photographing. Together we have photographed, edited, deleted and enjoyed thousands, and I mean thousands of pictures!!!!!!
This was painted from one of her great pictures. We found this little guy while walking early in the morning.

6"x6" original oil unframed
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

KM1088 Floating
















Here is another painting inspired from my trip to Greece last year. We stayed in Nafplio on the Pelopennese.
The city of Nafplio was the first capital of the modern Greek state. Named after Nafplios, son of Poseidon, and home of Palamidis, their local hero of the Trojan war and supposedly the inventor of weights and measures, lighthouses, the first Greek alphabet and the father of the Sophists.
There were many colorful boats were anchored in the harbror that I photographed throughout the day as we wandered around town. I knew I wanted to paint this one as soon as I saw it.

6"x4" original oil on linen unframed
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Sunday, June 22, 2008

KM2028 Curious Gaze


















While in wandering he narrow streets on the island of Hydra in Greece, school had just let out when I spotted this little girl standing secretly in a pose that leaves the viewer wondering what she is up to. Is she hiding from someone or waiting to surprise another little friend. I want this painting to keep the viewer guessing as to what was happening.
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7"x5" oil painting
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Friday, June 20, 2008

KM2162 Walking in Versailles

















I have had this scene on my mind to paint for many a moon. I was in Versailles, France several years ago with some really good friends and I loved this quiet walkway lined with the huge trees to shade the way. It was so pleasant after all the beautiful sights in Paris but I loved the quiet and serenity that this offered. It was early fall making it rich with the colors that were beginning to turn.

7"x5" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Thursday, June 19, 2008

KM2161 Bob's Bonanza


















A few weeks ago good friends had my husband Jim and I over for a very tasty dinner and added to that was a backyard garden filled with red poppies, like the ones I have seen in Europe. What a gift to have good, generous friends who fill your hearts, stomach and soul!!!!


7"x5" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

KM2066 Nature's Wonder




















The Columbine, Colorado's state flower is almost orchid like to me. It stands so tall and proud in and amongst the aspen trees. The wild Columbine found in the Colorado mountains are always lavendar and white with the yellow stamens. Painting just one flower seems like a great tribute to the individual beauty these flowers bring us.

6"x6" unframed original oil on linen
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

KM2160 Sea of Color