This little 5x7 watercolor portrait of a giraffe was purchased at Artisans' Gallery here in Laramie by the owner of the Blackhawk Gallery in Saratoga.  I happened to be coming in for some framing and met the owner and managers, Patty, Gwen and Kim.  They invited us to lunch and invited me to show in the Blackhawk gallery in Saratoga! Thanks Patty! And thanks to Brenda also.

Ouzel Creek Cascades

"Ouzel Creek Cascades"is one of the watercolor paintings I will be showing at the 2 Shot Goose Hunt Art Show at the Rendezvous Center in Torrington this Friday, December 13th and Saturday December 14th.

Sundance Mountain 6 x 9" watercolor

I will be sharing my experience as artist in residence in Rocky Mountain National Park this summer with a PowerPoint program entitled “Rocky Mountain High” at the Laramie Art Guild meeting on Saturday, November 2^nd at 10 AM, Room 116, LCCC Albany County Campus in Laramie.  Early landscape artists exhibited work at the 1917 National Parks Conference in Washington, DC. With the 2015 centennial of Rocky upon us, I took look at some of these early painters and their work.  I found the locations of thirteen of the early artists’ landscapes in Rocky and documented these landscapes with photographs, watercolor studies, and GPS readings.

This watercolor painting of a "Mallard Drake"  will be shown at the Two-Shot Goose Hunt Art Show in Torrington mid-December. 

This portrait " Inupiaq Woman" was selected for second place in the Wyoming Watercolor Society show in Sheridan by juror John Salminen.

I have been working on a series of small watercolor studies of the thirteen landscapes that I located in Rocky Mountain National Park in July.  My studies are done from the locations where four early artists did their paintings in Rocky.  This one, entitled "Sundance Mountain"  is after Birger Sandzen's work entitled "Road in the Wilderness".  Of course I left out the road, but it is the same mountain.

Farewell to Rocky

This morning finds me at the end of my two week artist in residency in Rocky Mountain National Park.  Tomorrow my little friends who inhabit the wide open spaces near the William Allen White cabin will be entertaining another visitor. The golden mantle ground squirrel who sits on the pillar of the front porch each morning looks out over Moraine Park and appears to be greeting the new day.  The rufous hummingbird who perches on the dead branch along the path to the cabin enjoys nectar from the nearby Indian Paintbrush.  The Yellow-bellied Marmot will awaken someone else when he gnaws on the roof in the morning.  I will not soon forget this incredible experience where folks have been so kind to us and every day was filled with new discoveries of magical places.  In the words of John Muir, "Who can imagine beauty so fine in so savage a place, but gardens are blooming in all sorts of nooks and hollows."