KM2221 Colorado Fall

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Here is my first of many to come from my trip here in Colorado in search of gold! I can't wait to get to more of my photos to keep living the incredible weekend of being surrounded by warm sun glowing thru all the yellow, orange and red Aspen leaves.

Also, the Daily Painters are all posting a painting with orange on Wednesday so go check it out there as well: Daily Painters Website
I realize I have more yellow than orange, but no one said how orange, so think of my colors as orange-yellow!
5"x7" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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KM2220 In Morning Shadows

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I have just returned from Aspen, the Maroon Bells and then Kebler Pass and Crested Butte, Colorado where I saw some of the most awesome fall scenery and colors. You will be seeing some of what I found later this week.
I painted this scene from a place in Provence, France, but I cannot remember where it was! I have so many pictures that now and again I pull one out that I have always wanted to paint but forget where I was as I seem to be enamored everywhere I am!
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KM2219 Blue Door

I found this scene last year while in Greece wandering around the island of Hydra.
We arrived there by boat from Napflio, our home base. We spent the morning exploring the many narrow cobblestone streets where there are no vehicles and only burros for transportation. We were so entranced that we actually got lost and almost missed the boat home which wouldn't have been a problem for me as I still had lots more pictures to find!

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KM2218 Afternoon Glow

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The late afternoon light casts such great shadows and just kisses the tree tops. This moment was found outside of Lake City, Colorado last July. We headed out and ventured up Engineer Pass as the sun was going down leaving just the last warm glow of the day.

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KM2217 Warm Afternoon

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I did this painting in oil from another of those photos found in my home studio while doing some much needed cleaning and clutter clearing. I am easily sidetracked and had to paint this so there is much clutter to attend to still!!!
Anyway, I love the simplicity of this landscape with the arroyo leading you back to the cluster of trees.

6"x6" unframed original oil on gessoed board
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KM2216 Afternoon Stroll

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This little scene reflects how I am feeling here in Denver this perfect September day. Is there nothing more heavenly than a fall day when the air is crisp and the skies are blue? I just love the feeling of the days that have lost the edge of the summer heat and now the sunshine on your shoulders is welcomed in anticipation of the cooler days ahead.

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KM2215 Dancing with Delight

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Another poppy painting? But of course, they are just such fun to paint and look at that I love doing them in between new ideas that are brewing. These poppies were growing wild in our Colorado mountains surrounded by wild grasses all of which were dancing in a gentle breeze.
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KM2214 Luscious

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Can't get away from Crested Butte and the Aspen groves. There is something so gentle about the quaking Aspen and the green meadows where these were growing. The white trunks take on such a glow when the light is reflecting off of them.

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KM2211 Into the Woods

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This painting is for an upcoming show at my gallery, Brushstrokes here in Denver. The show is on October 17 but I am working on paintings for it now, and am excited about lots of new ideas for it. Stay posted, there will be more that I will be posting in between my small daily paintings. This scene is once again from Crested Butte, Colorado from a photo I took several years ago, before the advent of the digital camera!

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KM2210 Vast Skies

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I seem to be into skies recently. Here is one from an early evening outside of Crested Butte, the area that has provided an abundance of painting materials for me in my passion for the landscape. Later this month I will be going to Aspen and Crested Butte in search of the brilliant changing Aspen scenes. Hopefully the weather will hold and it will be a year of color!
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KM2009 Lone Tree

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I have painted over the original "Lone Tree" painting that I posted several days ago. I am striving to loosen up my brushwork which I accomplished in this painting but it felt unfinished to me. I have added more contrast to the painting without comprising the looser brushwork and I am very satisfied with the results of this little painting.
Let me know your thoughts!

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KM2208 Carribean Skies

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I came across some photos that I had taken quite a few years ago in the Bahamas. I was particularly drawn to this one because of the dramatic skies filled with the threatening storm clouds of ominous color and contrasting light. The out islands of the Bahamas have a lot of low growth so the beauty of the scenery for me is the luscious turquoise waters contrasted storm clouds, a result of the fast moving weather systems that blow through.

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KM2206 Glorious Poppies

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I am always drawn to the wilder, less structured gardens. This painting glorifies the wonderful poppy which I do so often. The poppy is so bold and showy that it is hard to pass one up to paint and I used the palette knife to do most of this to keep the painting on the wilder side as well.

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KM2205 Summer Splendor

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Our Botanic Gardens here in Denver are a plethora of material to photograph and paint. This little scene was hidden behind the Alpine Garden where I go every year to see what may be new there. The dappled morning light is so romantic on an early summer morning when it is still cool and the dew is still on the ground.
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KM2204 Lone Tree

As a painter I am continually exploring and working on my style of painting. I am exploring a looser and more expressive style using fewer brushstrokes to create my visual story . That is what this piece represents. Let me know what your thoughts as far as how this painting might speak to you.

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KM2202 Heavenly

The flower is the poetry of reproduction.
It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
~Jean Giraudoux

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Surprise! I do actually paint something other than poppies! These Cone flowers were photographed at the Denver Botanic Gardens showing off their luscious magenta colors while contrasting the grayed greens in the background. It was a picture calling out to be taken and interpreted with my paintbrush!
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KM2203 Saffron Skies

"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven." Sir John Lubbock


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How I love the sunset time of day. Here is another of Florence, Italy that mesmerized me and fellow photographer and friend Pat as we were meandering the cobblestone streets as the sun was setting over Florence and the Arno River.
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KM2201 Glorious Evening

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My favorite time of day is as the sun is going down and all the world seems to become quiet and calm leaving behind the frenzy of the day. This scene was in Montana where the sunsets are vivid and the country is open and one can see for miles. I really like the distance the telephone poles add in addtion to some nostalgia.

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KM3000 Summer Meadow

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Here is another painting done on my little 4"x6" linen canvas panels. This scene was in North Park, Colorado a few summers ago. I am using these small panels to really practice loosening up my painting style. I am attempting to paint each 4x6 panel in as few strokes as I can, requiring a lot more focus on where I place each brushstroke, making sure my colors are just the right value and temperature before I apply them.


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KM2198 Florence Evening

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This is another scene from Florence, Italy on a walk to Ponte Vecchio. The late day light was so incredible the way the sunset colors lit up the buildings beyond the archway.

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KM2194 Poppy Paradise

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This is a small study that I have painted and like so much that I will be doing a large version of it as well. Sometimes I question why I keep painting poppies when nature has so many different flowers but the poppy for me is so vibrant and such a paradox of being so hardy and fragile at the same time. They are especially beautiful when growing in gardens filled with other varieties of flowers.

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KM2196 Ocotillo

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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.

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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.

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KM2193 Willows in Fall

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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!

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KM2190 Blooming Ever Brilliant

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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.
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KM2189 The Road Less Travelled

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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.

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KM2185 Alive with Vibrance

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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.

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KM2192 Blue Dream of Sky

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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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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?

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KM2183 Amber Skies

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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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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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KM2179 Infinite Skies

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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.

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KM2178 Late Day Glow

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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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KM2063 Utterly Simple

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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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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!

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KM2171 Late Day View

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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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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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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.

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