This is my watermedia version of Stopping Traffic (see collages). It love embellishing these mystical figures. This painting was juried into the Western Colorado Watercolor Society Show in 2009 where it won a merchandise award. It is currently at Foothills Art Center in Golden, Colorado where it was juried into the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia [...]
This is one of my “layered landscapes” which I built on top of a collaged piece of yupo. I had no reference for this. It is completely made up. I live in the land of mountains and mesas in Colorado, so I guess it just happens by environmental osmosis. This piece belongs to a collector.
I painted this experimental watermedia piece on Yupo* several summers ago during an extreme drought in Colorado. There was an almost constant smoky haze and odor in the air from the many wildfires around the region. I thought the intense hot colors of red, orange and rose had to be counter-balanced by shots of blues [...]
