"Bear Lake" study from Rocky Mountain National Park where I spent two weeks this past summer as an Artist in Residence.  Honored to be one of the jurors of selection for this summer's Rocky Artists in Residence.  I enjoyed seeing all the wonderful artwork that was submitted.

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.