I first made a perfect margarita. then I posed it on the arm of an adirondack chair in my backyard. I photographed it, then enjoyed it. Later, after the drink and green grass were long gone I decided to paint it. 

This painting started out traditional but I wound up adding lots of paint(impasto) with a pallet knife. I then scraped some away to reveal the underpainting. The result is an impressionistic scene of waves on a rocky shore with lots of complimentary ... 

This original oil was painted alla prima in one 3 hour sitting. I attend a weekly figure and portrait painting group. We use dramatic lighting and creative poses. 

My yoga instructor posed for the weekly figure painting group I attend. I painted her alla prima for the most part, then took it into the studio. I imagined her in a very peaceful setting so I took her to the beach at sunset. 

 

I painted this plein air at Summit Lake on Buffalo Pass which is in North Park, Colorado. 

This is a small plein air oil painting I painted alla prima. The view is looking from North Park (near Walden, Colorado) looking toward Rabbit Ears Pass. 

I painted this studio piece from a plein air painting that I painted along Upper Bear Creek Road near Evergreen, Colorado. The weather was moving in and I had to paint quickly to capture the light. Mt Evans is one of the mountains in the distance. 

 

 

 

This view of the Kootenay Mountains near Fernie, British Columbia, Canada is of Island Lake. There is a trail that winds around the lake through old growth forests. The area is simply magical. 

 

 

This depicts a real sunset that didn't look real at all. The entire sky was lit up. The layered clouds were most likely the jet stream at the time.