Wet Hay Meadow

Wet Hay Meadow
10" x 12 oil on panel
$300.00 -sold-

This is one of my favorites - a loose, intuitive plein air made looking towards the Mesa from Hwy 191, just east of the Pole Creek bridge. I've always loved this pair of trees, but in early spring with the irrigation water reflecting that late afternoon sky, they seem almost regal. I had to paint fast, light like that never lasts, but I think the glow of that atmosphere is captured.

Lodge in the Cottonwoods

"Lodge in the Cottonwoods"
9" x 12" oil on panel
$300.00 -sold-
I snuck up to the Museum grounds and made this early morning Rendezvous plein air of Michael Terry's lodge. Just as I was finishing, that lovely paint horse of his wandered into the early light - heartstopping, but that will have to wait for another painting. I enjoy the value pattern of this piece, the distant peaks, and warm meadow grass contrasted with the cool sage. I can almost feel that July morning sun warming the east side of the lodge.